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Beginning in the late 1940s, the white picket fence became synonymous ... households couldn’t afford to whitewash a fence, never mind an entire house. In Colonial times, a mixture of lime ...

H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty ImagesNot long ago, success in the middle class had a clear, almost universal checklist: Buying a house with a white picket fence, a shiny new car in the ...