Schulz allowed Peppermint Patty to forge her own way and chafed things like dress codes. It's almost like you can see the roots of a don't ask, don't tell policy with Patty. In some ways, it almost connects to that colorblind ideology with Franklin.
Cartoonist Charles Schulz wrote and drew Peanuts every day for half a century. In his new book Charlie Brown's America, Historian Blake Scott Ball uses the strip (and the fan mail archive at the Schulz museum) to illuminate the Wishy-Washy politics of Cold War America.