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Put me in the "Travelers aren't hippies" camp. Travelers are just redneck gypsies, at least the ones that I knew.
I think that the stereotype for the hippie is still locked into the 1968 version. The male hippie has a long beard and hair, wears John Lennon glasses and drives a VW bus. The female version wears a shapeless dress, doesn't shave either and has renamed herself "Moonbeam". Both have an odor of pot, unwashed bodies, wheat grass and beans about them.
Those folks grew up and got jobs a long time ago.
What's the modern hippie? The ones I know have jobs now. One's one of the best woodworkers in Iowa. Another one restores old houses in Chicago and is a millionaire a few times over. Neither of those guys smell unless they've been on a job site all day. Interestingly, both drive a Prius. You'd never know by looking at them, but both of them are self-described hippies, and they're both rabid liberals.
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