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What cities have the most counter-culture people vs the least counter-culture? The counter-culture people like punk, emo, gutter punk, crust punk, juggalo, rock band people or hippies?
Seattle still big on punk and juggalo Portland hippies. San francisco hippies and punk.
Have not notice any counter-culture people in Las Vegas or anywhere in Nevada.
Portland, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Denver are where I see counter-culture being the most "mainstream" (yes, even with the wealthy tech bubbles)
Las Vegas, Phoenix and Oklahoma City are places where counter-culture is especially minimal and marginilized.
Portland, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and Denver are where I see counter-culture being the most "mainstream" (yes, even with the wealthy tech bubbles)
Las Vegas, Phoenix and Oklahoma City are places where counter-culture is especially minimal and marginilized.
I think the Bay Area has a lot of counter-culture, particularly in places like Oakland and Berkeley where militant resistance to mainstream social norms have always been prevalent, whether it's hippie culture or the Black Panther Party. The other cities, I would say are not really counter-culture at all. Denver, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, etc. etc. etc. are largely white and middle class, despite having "liberal ideology" and are generally perceived as places that are very livable or attractive to the average middle income American.
In the modern era I see the rise of more authentic counter-cultural activities happening in places like St. Louis (which has been really radicalized since Ferguson), Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, New Orleans, maybe Miami, etc. Places with large stigmatized underclasses that have a real vested interest in rebellion and fighting against the "mainstream" culture of society. Relatively wealthy and stable regions usually are not hotbeds for authentic counter-culture activities. I mean "hipster" culture is so mainstream now that it's really not really perceived as counter-cultural, it's just another convenient genre or box we can put people in.
You really need to explore beyond Texas. Hipsters as a subculture? In 2017? And where are all of these hippies in Austin? Maybe circa 1980.
I just got back from Austin for the second time in a month or so. I just don't see it either. Mind you, there are some cool things there, but it just didn't feel all that different to me.
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