More generally, however, the term is used as a catch-all phrase for those individuals of the baby boomer generation in the United States who subscribed to the values of the American counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s.
More generally, the phrase refers to those members of the baby boomer generation in the U.S. who identified with the cultural and social ideals of the 1960s and early 1970s counterculture movement.