Actually I find Blandiver's posts quite fascinating....and it's really only his take on what is 'folk'.

I've looked through Jim Carroll's posts and I'm still trying to understand that 'process' fully......and can it still exist today?

If not, that it really is an academic pursuit of interest only to a learned few. Which is fine.....but the interest will eventually die.

So looking at something like "You are My Sunshine".   Aside from it's origin (which is debateable and probably not fully known....despite Jimmy Davis' claim to have written it)..........is their a 'process' it would need to go through in order to be considered traditional?