I wonder if the GOP figured women who are past their childbearing years

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28. I would bet that older Boomer women who vote for the traitors

Never were the Dylan or Grateful Dead type.

I know people like to think that every young person in the 60s was into peace love dope and protests, but that was never true. Hippies and the protest crowd were a much smaller number than is ever discussed.

I was a child then, but I have very clear memories of the era. I had cousins who were in high school and college at the time. They and their friends were clean cut kids who were total squares--no drugs, protesting, loud rebellion, ragging on their parents--none of it. I wouldn't see a hippie in real life until around 1971. They just didn't exist where I grew up.

I've had two spouses with parents who were 60s teens/young adults, none of them over 30 during the decade, and none of them--or their friends--were hippies or radicals. They attended high schools where there was never a protest, and where hippies and radicals were not the norm. My in-laws met at college, and never attended a protest. They knew of hippies during that time, but didn't associate with them. That wasn't their thing.

When they finished their educations, all of them lived much like their parents had, or like my Silent Generation mother did--get a job, get married, buy a house, raise a family. Their kids were in scouts and little league. The moms were housewives in the beginning of their marriages, but worked when times got tougher. They took vacations to Yosemite and Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. They watched Walter Cronkite every night, and Ed Sullivan on Sunday. During the housewife years, the women watched soap operas.

And here's the ultimate kicker: All of my in-laws and their friends grew up in the Bay Area, and were both of my husbands were born there, the current one growing up there! Right down the road from Berkeley, no less.

To hear the in-laws or my cousins describe the 60s, though, you'd think they did it on an entirely different planet from the mythos we all hear about the decade.

That's the 60s the traitor party women lived. Not the more famous one.