@sickburnbro I've heard exactly this from lib-progs I've known and worked with.

My memories of the 1970's have some shitty moments with the bad economy and the politics, but we still had a community. We didn't feel like aliens in our own land. It still felt like a nation. And there was still opportunity. You weren't held back or denied employment simply for being White and male. Even though my own community had problems (lots of WW2 vets) it was still ours.