Hippies

"The hippie precept of dropping out of the larger society to seek a purer life was not a new one, nor was it novel to create communes in the country for those who wanted to live among like-minded dropouts. Certainly some of the European settlers to America were malcontents who saw themselves as having to withdraw from society and head for the wilderness to find satisfaction. Communes were operating in America from the 17th century. The grand communes of the era were often founded in locations far from major cities and represented dissatisfaction with society's prevailing arrangements. The hippies saw themselves as creating new family structures in their communes, but that had been done fairly extensively in the first half of the 19th century."
Hippies

-- The Hippies and American Values, Timothy Miller, 2nd ed. 2011, p. 108.