well america was at an alltime high in terms of pride we had won a great war people tend to forget that war is not always ta bad thing you have to fight back if you want to survive im not saying its a good thing either but you want to know what would have happened if we had not fought back we would be speaking German and i dont mean that in a good way the economy boomed in the late 40's and guess what baseball was finally integrated yes i know it was overglamorized some and yes racism was bad but man its bad now and americans loved being american they had courage which the baby boomers just didnt have