The term that is often applied by members of the counterculture is "hippies."
Originally, this term stemmed from the word 'hipster' but was altered to give an identity to those in the 1960s associated with the beat generation.
A hippie is a member of the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie derived from hipster and is employed to describe beatniks who moved into New York City's Greenwich Village and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. The term hippie first found popularity in San Francisco with Herb Caen, who was a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle.
