More yippies than hippies
Hippies were more apolitically
Turn on drop out
Yippies were the ones who were marching at colleges and causing mayhem and so on
In 1972 the youth vote supported Nixon 60%
About same as youth vote today supported Obama twice and Hillary
It’s a common notion that kids in the 60s and 70s were all liberals
It’s not true.
Boomer kids were far more conservative than any youth generation since
The main thing about Boomer youth is there were so damn many
Half the population was under 25
Today half the population is under 40
Of 210 million folks in 1972, almost 95 million were 21 or under
That’s just hard to fathom isn’t it
It was a great time to grow up
The post-war baby boom. Just look at me and my eight siblings!
“Of 210 million folks in 1972, almost 95 million were 21 or under. That’s just hard to fathom isn’t it”
Plus the fact that our demographics were 90% white and 10% black, with every other group too small to count.
The 1965 Immigration Act and mass 3rd world invasion hadn’t yet driven a stake through the Old America that Barack Obama and Dinesh D’Souza and Nikki Haley celebrate the death of.