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Honey I was one of the first hippies in my neck of blue, middle class Mid-West America. It was going on strong for about 5 years before I got wind. It was in California mostly, New York, sure, and all the places where big cities flourished since there were a lot of teenagers with brains all uniting under the umbrella of KIDS who were in college mostly.
There was marijuana for the first time and that united EVERYONE. Even those teenagers that did NOT go to college. It turned out that these kids I was formerly indoctrinated to think of as dumb losers actually had very keen, untried minds just like the rest of us. They provided another unique perspective. I was learning to BROADEN my mind.
So, all that was left were those who did not become Hippies. The straight people. And there was a definite division. You either were a freak or you weren't. And the freaks didn't want the straights anywhere near us because they lied about what we were doing. They hated drugs and yet they needed them a lot more than we did. Nothing was more enjoyable than turning on a straight person. I really loved it. You could watch the transformation of a whole person.
So I was one of the first hippies. I was the first Hippie girl in Northlake in 1967 and I am the LAST HIPPIE standing.
The cool, open-minded thinkers versus the stuck, zombie, muggle scared, bible thumping, racist straight people. SOUND LIKE any other decade that comes to mind?
My sister was a hippy. She is 5 years older than us and went to CA. She is now in Hawaii and I think she still is one. I fall into none
of the groups you mentioned as I joined the Navy in 1969 and stayed until 1990.
