The hippie subculture was a youth countercultural movement that emerged in the mid-1960s United States, most closely associated with San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and characterized by documented rejection of mainstream social and economic norms in favor of communal living experiments, psychedelic drug use, an ethic of peace and anti-materialism, and opposition to the Vietnam War. The movement is closely associated with, though not identical to, the broader youth counterculture and New Left political movements of the era, and with a documented explosion of countercultural music festivals, most famously the 1969 Woodstock festival. By the mid-1970s the subculture's distinct identity had substantially dissolved into broader mainstream culture and a range of successor movements, though hippie-descended communal and back-to-the-land communities continued, and continue, to exist in smaller, documented numbers.
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Population Estimateno reliable population figure exists; a self-identified subculture rather than a demographically bounded population 1 Sourced to the subject's own accountThe hippie subculture was defined by voluntary lifestyle and value affiliation rather than any bounded or countable membership criterion, so no population estimate is meaningful in the way it is for an ethnic or generational category. Group TypeSourced to the subject's own accountYouth countercultural subculture 1 Typical RegionSourced to the subject's own accountOriginated in the United States (notably the San Francisco Bay Area) in the mid-1960s, subsequently spreading internationally 1 Sources
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