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.
In a broader sense, the phrase is employed as an umbrella expression for those members of the baby boomer generation in the U.S. who conformed to the ideals of the American counterculture during the 1960s and early 1970s.