[Kenny Bunkport]

Thanks for the "amen." I usually get flamed by some well-meaning Baby Boomer for painting with too broad a brush when I impune the character of my own generation, but let's face it -- in the popular culture, the loonies have defined my generation, and I don't identify with them. In fact, when in high school (I was raised in the Bay Area in the middle of the hippy days), I rebelled, but it was against my own generation. I always thought the dopers, freaks and hippies were dumb.

[Mulch]

Didn't sociologists recently determine that the baby-boomer generation should be divided into two separate and distinct groups based on each group's distinct value system?

[driftless]

There was then and is today two generations. As in the sixties as it is today, there is the generation of middle-class, traditional values mostly represented in the midwest and south, and the hippie/counter-culture values mostly present on the coasts. To be sure there was and is plenty of drug use in the midwest during the sixties (mostly the last half), the south I can't speak for.

Most of what the nation saw as hippie-crazed youth was generated and conducted on the coasts. Most of the midwestern kids I knew just wanted to drink beer, find girls, fish, hunt, play sports, drive fast cars, join the military, and listen to rock music...just like many do today. I didn't know any hippies then, and I don't know any now.

[BBell]

RE 11

I always felt stupid when the media started touting this generation X thing with all these whiny losers and Kurt Cobain as their leader. I was told I was part of generation X but I couldn't identify with it. Heck I joined the Marine Corp out of High School. Almost all my Uncles and My Dad served, I thought it was my duty.
Now I'm lumped in with a bunch of losers with torn cloths and a dead leader.