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Gomer Pyle, Television’s Faux Elvis, On a Date With the Colonel’s Daughter, by Jim Demetre, Celebrity Guest Blogger

One of the legacies of World War II, with its enlistment of young men from across the United States for military service in Europe and the Pacific, was the integration of Southern rural culture – both black and white – into mainstream American life. The South, which had been largely isolated from the rest of …