Working-class ethnic people and middle-class conservatives were fed up with smirking, obnoxious, and destructive “Commie-hippie-freaks.” It made no sense to them that members of the most privileged group in the most privileged nation in the world would rise up against the society that had made them. They were trying to destroy Everything That Made This Country Great. “Everything I got, I worked for,” said one working-class stiff. “It gets me sore when I see these kids, who been handed everything, pissing it away, talking like bums.” They felt the America they had grown up in was being
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