I think of it as people all into the organic foods, preserving the earth, loving everything. All good things, but in my head a "hippie" has this as an obsession and mostly goes about it in a strange way. I also tend to view them as dirtier than most people, but that is just due to experience.
Also, having been into the whole punk scene in the past, my gut reaction to the word is bad, since generally hippies and punks don't get along.
But my sister is a self-proclaimed hippie and so was my college roomy, so regardless of what connotations the word means to me, I have liked most "hippies" I have known
