Every boomer claims cultural connection to the hippies but what they actually mean is that they smoked weed once while bitching about MLK being a commie
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Kevin M. Kruse
The day after the Kent State shootings in 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58 percent of respondents placed blame for the students' deaths on the protesters, while just 11 percent blamed the National Guardsmen who shot them.
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I think some people (like myself) got snowed under with the fact key parts of the culture (e.g., movies; music) ended up being dominated by (formerly) counter-culture rebels, but other aspects, such as politics and business, definitely did not.
Meanwhile, this was the number one song from 1969.
https://youtu.be/8kj9qv6rmG8?feature=shared
He later killed a guy over woman!
the vast majority of the 60s folks were hyper normie conservative