On Sep 3, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Susan Carroll-Clark wrote:
It's my understanding that a little of each of these last two are true. (As for the hippie connection, there's often an assumption that anyone at Berkley in the late 60s must have been a hippie, but that's not necessarily true. I suspect that hippie-ness, like most things, existed on a spectrum).
As someone who lived in Berkeley and went to UC back in the late sixties, I can attest to the fact that not everyone there was or dressed like a hippie, but it was probably a much higher percentage of the population than existed in the mainstream US. There certainly was a spectrum. I liked to dress like a hippie back then, but I don't think I was a true hippie, if there really was such an animal. I lived pretty much on the fringes of both hippiedom and the radical political movements that flourished in Berkeley. Never the less, I think it was my impression at the time that much more of the US lived and believed as we did in Berkeley, since I am still surprised to this day, when I meet contemporaries of mine who grew up in other areas of the country, such as the midwest, and were totally even unaware of what was going on in places like the CA Bay Area.
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