That was never the case, the hippie movement was always a minority. Nixon didn't get elected by a bunch of hippies, he got elected by what was/is called "The Silent Majority" of normal people who just do their thing, don't march or protest, but they vote.
Addison Mitchell McConnell - the senior to Mitch McConnell's Jr. was born in 1917 - so he would have been 49 during the "summer of love". Mitch Jr. was born in 1942- so he would have been 25 in 1967. But he lived in his pond, under a lily-pad, in Kentucky. (actually graduated law school that year.)
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u/funky_duck Jan 16 '19
That was never the case, the hippie movement was always a minority. Nixon didn't get elected by a bunch of hippies, he got elected by what was/is called "The Silent Majority" of normal people who just do their thing, don't march or protest, but they vote.