Ahem, but the word is "hippie". "Hippy" means you'll probably have an easy time bearing children, if you can somehow attract a guy in the first place...
I spent the Peace n'
Love years as a college student, mostly in the Midwest and a bit around around NYC, but not on the Left Coast. They weren't too much on FlowerFag names in those parts. Altho I did know two girls who dubbed themselves Rainbow and
Sunshine and a guy named Toker (they didn't know EACH OTHER, thank Gawd), most of the hippie folks in our neck of the woods were called things like
Tom and
Steve and Maddie (for
Madelyn ).
Oh, and to set the record straight in defense of the attempted Greening of America: never did I hear anyone use the word "groovy" except as total loathing sarcasm.
My own theory to explain those years was that young people were made delirious not by Colombian or Panama Red or even hash, but by the aerosol Right Guard fumes that blanketed the planet throughout the decade. Ozone layer? We doan need no steenking ozone layer...
Right on, dude.