These are the same ugly people with the same ugly manners I knew in college..
Was your experience similar to mine? Namely, these people seemed to always have money that enabled them to 'protest'. While I was running like mad to catch a bus to get to a job so that I could pay my tuition, they always seemed to have the 'needs of life' covered so that they were free to protest all they wanted to. Has always been a mystery to me. Guess their trust fund babies(?)
I can't answer you because they were so disagreeable that I never got close enough to know. These were people I would not like to be seen with, and there has been no change in things, so far as I can tell.
Caucasian teens/twentysomethings with dreadlocks anointed with some concoction of essential oils - primarily patchouli - in place of bathing. They either sponge off of their parents or manage to get by selling veggie burritos, glass pipes, tie dye clothing or macrame thingamabobs along the remains of the Phish/Grateful Dead tour circuit. Some "sell out" and open "lifestyle" boutiques. Kinda hard to go mainstream when you haven't washed your hair in years and you have 24+ piercings above the neck.