Am I a hippie?

As a new blogger, I was happy to see a couple of comments. Of course, this means that someone is reading my blog. One person accused me of being a "liberal hippie." While clearly I'm liberal, I wouldn't call myself a hippie. But then I thought, what really classifies someone as a hippie?

Dictionary.com says a hippie is:
"a person, esp. of the late 1960s, who rejected established institutions and values and sought spontaneity, direct personal relations expressing love, and expanded consciousness, often expressed externally in the wearing of casual, folksy clothing and of beads, headbands, used garments, etc."

Well, I don't really reject established institutions. I'm more of a planner, although I'm not against spontaneity. I do enjoy loving relationships (but don't most people). I'm pretty sure that expanded consciousness refers to drug use - not my thing. I don't think my clothing style would be classified as "hippie-like."

Here's another one (also from dictionary.com):
"a usually young person who does not wish to live by the normal rules of society and who shows his rejection of these rules by his unusual clothes, habits etc."

I'm not much of a rule breaker and I don't think my clothes or habits are that unusual. I do have a garden in my backyard, but I don't think that's all that hippie-like.

So, "Rush and Coulter," I think you missed the mark on the hippie comment (along with most of your other remarks). But thanks for reading my blog.