| rdfs:comment | - It's the South, it's The Sixties, and the title character is the sheriff, but: 1.
* There is no racial tension, nor any signs of the civil rights movement. 2.
* There are no people of color seen in Mayberry at all. 3.
* There are no signs of segregation (literal or otherwise), nor of the hate crimes committed in the name of keeping a town "lily white".
* Or maybe it's just that it's set in Appalachia, where people did not have slaves and the black population is low. The Dillards are from "back in the hollers."
* Mayberry is an idealized version of Mount Airy, NC. Andy Griffith's home town. Because it's idealized, there is no racial strife. However, North Carolina in Real Life did see a lot less of the violence seen in the rest of the south (Mostly just sit ins and peac
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| abstract | - It's the South, it's The Sixties, and the title character is the sheriff, but: 1.
* There is no racial tension, nor any signs of the civil rights movement. 2.
* There are no people of color seen in Mayberry at all. 3.
* There are no signs of segregation (literal or otherwise), nor of the hate crimes committed in the name of keeping a town "lily white".
* Or maybe it's just that it's set in Appalachia, where people did not have slaves and the black population is low. The Dillards are from "back in the hollers."
* Mayberry is an idealized version of Mount Airy, NC. Andy Griffith's home town. Because it's idealized, there is no racial strife. However, North Carolina in Real Life did see a lot less of the violence seen in the rest of the south (Mostly just sit ins and peaceful protests).
* Or maybe, like many small country towns, black people just never lived there in the first place. My hometown of 600 people and most of the surrounding area have almost no black people, without some sinister racist intent.
* Was there ever even one black person on the show?
* There have been a small handful of black people in crowd scenes, but I don't think the show had any black people with speaking parts.
* There was at least one. In Opie's Piano Lesson, Opie is the quarterback of the football team. A black man named Flip Conroy is in Mayberry. Apperantly, he's an ex-NFL star and the new football coach. Not only is he accepted in Mayberry, but he is also revered.
* The real reason though is just that southern networks would probably have been less likely to air the show if it had regular black actors on it. Executive meddling is more the case. All signs point to an Alternate Universe with no slavery, meaning no mass forced immigration from Africa, meaning these conditions can exist.
* The logical explanation for the divergence is that the idealistic, yet proud of his heritage, Andy went back in time to prevent slavery from coming to the United States.
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