Reply #6: Not so fast [View All]

[Warpy]

Don't forget "that generation" covered two separate cohorts, and within those two cohorts there were subgroups.

The big college towns had the most liberal of us, but they also had a sizable number of fratties, YAF members and Ripon Society members. That's where our monsters came from, not peace marches.

Blue collar towns produced young conservatives because they were hell on anybody who was different and spoke out. Love and peace weren't considered much in hardscrabble towns that were beginning to face plant closures as industry moved first south and then offshore.

The "peace, love" people were always a minority, something they failed to realize back in the day and a lot of young folks fail to realize now.

We did manage to rattle a few cages and get a few things changed, though.