Charles Manson had been predicting racial war for some time before he used the term "Helter Skelter". His first use of the term was at a gathering of the Family on New Year's Eve 1968 at Myers Ranch near California's Death Valley. The scenario had Manson as the war's ultimate beneficiary and its musical cause. He and the Family would create an album with songs whose messages would be as subtle as those he had heard in songs of the Beatles. This would not merely foretell the conflict but would trigger it by instructing "the young love", meaning white American youth, to join the Family, and it would draw the young, white female hippies out of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury.