Republican Son of the Soil stories are one of the best things in life. They all try to pass themselves off as biological working class heroes - Coal miner Grandson Rick Santorum et al.

FDR was in his third term not 4th.

Others mentioned Washington DC, but Utopians are all over the place here. Greenbelt Maryland was a New Deal planned community with an Art Deco downtown and segregated housing. Columbia Maryland and Reston Virginia were 60s attempts to keep the joys of suburbia while tamping down unsightly race and class segregation. …