We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There's something so undeniably charming about a white picket fence. It's the classic symbol of the American dream for a reason — it's ...

A white picket fence was easy shorthand for fictional families in film and on television: Upper middle-class, prosperous, mannered. Neighborhoods wanted to reflect the kind of wholesomeness ...

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Beginning in the late 1940s, the white picket fence became synonymous with the American Dream. Lambert / Hulton Archive / Getty Images. In little Taylor, Mississippi, outside ...