Most teens, then as now, were going to college after high school, into the service, or getting a job.There was probably only one percent or less of the teen or young adult population at the time who were actual hippies.
@goatprarie
Do NOT denigrate the REAL hippies of the 60's. GREAT people to talk and visit with. I was in San Francisco in the summer of 1967,wandering around while wearing army dress greens,jump boots,and a green beret. I had hippies stop me to ask me questions about the VN war,but they were not only respectful,they even invited me to stay at the houses they were living in and eat their food. They also took me around to show me the sights,and told me the areas to avoid that day because the "professional tv hippies" were leading violent protests,and I would be attacked because I was wearing my uniform.
One of my favorite parts was when they took me to a popular "hippy area" in town late in the afternoon,and showed me all the "hippies" being dropped off in full costume by Mercedes and Lincoln driving parents.
When I went back through San Francisco a couple of years later,I even ran into a couple of them on Market Street that I remembered,and they even remembered my name and invited me to stay with them again. Great people. We had different viewpoints about the war,but they were willing to listen to mine and anxious to hear it because they flat told me they knew the media was slanting the news and nobody was hearing both sides of any discussions.
The ones to watch out for were the "professional tv hippies" who were in reality nothing more than Communist Agitators looking to start a violent revolution to turn America into a communist country.
REAL hippies wanted nothing to do with them.