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wnylib

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30. The majority of yuppies were not hippies because

Reply to griffi94 (Reply #28)

Wed Oct 4, 2023, 08:56 PM

Oct 2023

yuppies were not converted hippies. They were the young people who came of age right after the hippies.

I don't think that there were ever enough yuppies or hippies to influence voting results. (Hippies were unlikely to vote, anyway.) Like hippies, the yuppies were not a majority even in their generation, let alone in the general population.

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Tom Nichols: "The GOP is now a countercultural movement of sour and resentful people who don't [View all] highplainsdem Oct 2023 OP

Fascist hippies. The Unmitigated Gall Oct 2023 #1

They ain't hippies ZZenith Oct 2023 #2

Take it from this first generation hippie that the current fascist r-wingers are 180 degrees in flashman13 Oct 2023 #5

Every summer is a summer of love around here. ZZenith Oct 2023 #7

Back-sliders sanatanadharma Oct 2023 #9

Umm... then maybe "Rippies?" slightlv Oct 2023 #38

A lot of hippies weren't so great. Elessar Zappa Oct 2023 #15

Yep griffi94 Oct 2023 #17

From where are you getting those statistics? N/t ZZenith Oct 2023 #19

Reagans 49 state landslide griffi94 Oct 2023 #26

Your methodology is highly suspect. ZZenith Oct 2023 #27

Yep griffi94 Oct 2023 #29

Some, yes. But I would not say most of them, or even many of them. wnylib Oct 2023 #23

The GOP had the WH from 80-92 griffi94 Oct 2023 #28

The majority of yuppies were not hippies because wnylib Oct 2023 #30

Still, yuppies are not hippies. Maybe they used to think they were hippies because it was so fun. 1WorldHope Oct 2023 #20

Yuppies were the next generation from hippies who chose to define themselves as opposite them. wnylib Oct 2023 #24

I'm not sure that most hard core hippies voted at all Mblaze Oct 2023 #35

Jerry Rubin became a stock broker Mblaze Oct 2023 #37

Right and they don't deserve association with the word Counterculture. Ligyron Oct 2023 #22

You are so right Mblaze Oct 2023 #34

Fappies. Grokenstein Oct 2023 #11

Perfect description Diamond_Dog Oct 2023 #3

I call them dangerous. Boomerproud Oct 2023 #18

And they hug their nasty attitudes like a tattered wubby Mblaze Oct 2023 #36

The part about not knowing what they're angry about until FAUX tells senseandsensibility Oct 2023 #4

I suspect they actually do know what they are angry about - soldierant Oct 2023 #13

Right wingers around here get their talking points from FQX KS Toronado Oct 2023 #16

In my opinion that t shirt is way too subtle senseandsensibility Oct 2023 #39

Exactly right - Faux Noise and Chump are both churning hate and anger FakeNoose Oct 2023 #6

They are in their final stage of multigraincracker Oct 2023 #8

They sure are speeding it up! How can we help them go FASTER??? nt CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2023 #10

Give 'em just a little more rope. multigraincracker Oct 2023 #12

chronic victims Skittles Oct 2023 #14

White males are the most sour and resentful Warpy Oct 2023 #21

This. wnylib Oct 2023 #25

Until Faux News drmeow Oct 2023 #31

They DO know what they're angry about! BaronChocula Oct 2023 #32

A lot of times you really don't know what you are mad at Racygrandma Oct 2023 #33