[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I am 58 and grew up in Georgia. I was in college from 66-72 (B.A and J.D.) during the so called hippie years. At UGA there were very few hippies. There were demonstrations after the Kent State riots and shooing of the students there, but the protesters were in the minority. Most students were in complete disdain of the smelly longhairs.

I am always offended when I see TV shows or movies that give the appearance that everyone during the 60s was smoking dope, protesting the war, and going to some kind of woodstock. That may have been more common in California, but not in the South.

[Froufrou]

I'm a native Texan and I can identify with all you say! Those were my high school years. We later had hare krishnas at the airport, but the junior college ran them off! When I graduated, there was nothing on campus like that [84.]

I have a friend your age who recalls Hillary coming to Dallas to speak. She said her hair was long and greasy and she had underarm and leg hair.

No wonder she doesn't come back.

[Logophile]

I am always offended when I see TV shows or movies that give the appearance that everyone during the 60s was smoking dope, protesting the war, and going to some kind of woodstock. That may have been more common in California, but not in the South.

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"!)

[GOP_1900AD]

Well at the Ivies and major West Coast schools, the Communists ran rampant. Most of the levers of power in both the public and private sector are held by those who went to those schools during the 60s and 70s.