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OP has a point, but it's not the point he thinks it is. The 1950s was where everything changed fundamentally, but it wouldn't be perceptible to most until the mid 1960s. If you lived in a WASP small town in the north, things were pretty pleasant like a Norman Rockwell painting, but gradually things would get worse and worse.
Boomers thought it was "boring" being bratty teenagers who didn't know anything else. Born into the postwar boom with greatest generation parents who grew up in the depression and fought in the war they thought it was a given that people would have self-discipline and trad values, that these things weren't really threatened and there was plenty of space to smoke weed in college paid for by daddy's GI bill. They believed it was like loosening your belt, kind of like Millennials wearing a hoody at work, because getting comfortable doesn't affect your performance in many cases. There were of course serious consequences to abandoning trad values and family values, but they were decades ahead.
Likewise black people were still terrified of the h'white man and kept their anuses tightly clenched around white boys and white girls giving boomers the impression the warnings from southerners were hocus pocus, assuming they heard the warnings. Because the experiment with "equality" had only begun they had no way of knowing the results. They liked the nice black folks propped up on the television like Sammy Davis Jr. and concluded black people actually were equal and by treating them fairly they would naturally rise to the same level as white folks as various immigrants groups had done. Even during the urban decay of the 70s they could just move to the 'burbs or a whiter city to escape and pretend it was temporary until the new generation of integrated blacks grew up.
It was a slow burn. You might argue it goes back to the new deal or the decadence of the gilded age or the civil war, but things certainly picked up in the 50s.
