It wasn't even that common in California. Most people who grew up during that time were not hippies, or even close.
Much of what we see and read about the Sixties is leftist propaganda served up by the mainstream media. ("Fake but accurate"!)
It was really the seventies before the sickness that was the hippie-communist movement of the fifties and sixties started to bear its poisonous fruit.
Much of what we see and read about the Sixties is leftist propaganda served up by the mainstream media. ("Fake but accurate"!)
Correct on both points.
The boomers were subjected to a completed tactics change by the communists and anarchists that had been disrupting with terror tactics since the turn of the century. The commies realized that the war on the American economy was failing, as there were too many prosperous individuals to allow recruitment to communism, so they changed tactics, to rot from the inside, by propaganda and social liberalism, using a free society and hiding behind equal rights social issues, they infiltrated government bureaucracy, media, and education accepting lower pay as communist moles to direct propaganda and indoctrination.
The privileged, spoiled children boomers were easy to move away from values to tolerance of evil, and allowing evil in government.
60's hippies won't admit that communists out thought them, so it goes on, America is not allowed to defend her grace and good, a terrorist identical to the communist/anarchist terrorist of the early twentieth century might get killed.