1970s Culture

During the protests of the Vietnam War, a subculture came into existance that took hold in the fabric of the United States.  The hippies, beat poets and rock stars joined the vocabulary of the typical American, although many of the people of America held on to thier traditionial beliefs.  Richard Nixon ran on the concept of the "Silent Majority", or the conservative viewpoint that was not being heard by the nation because of the liberal media, in his mind, dening