In the 70's? Depends on where you lived at the time. In the south they were not very respected. Though in states over west (mainly California) they did embrace them. Now in our day and time its just as if it was another person.
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Refused to behave according to conventional norms
With some very few exceptions (including the drafted hippies); hippies were the anti-war movement.
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Probably the Hippies.