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We're number 2, we're number 2!

The United States of America is a far out place, a groovy country full of all sorts of different people, but what about the hippies? Here at the venerable real estate search site Estately we sought to seek out which state is home ot the largest concentrations of hippies. Since “hippie” isn’t a box you can check on the Census, we had to create a special set of criteria to determine who the hippies are and where they are located. To do this, we measured these four variables.

1. Number of communes and intentional communities per capita in each state (source:  Fellowship for Intentional Community)
2. Number of food co-ops per capita in each state (source: Coop Directory)
3. Number of local Etsy stores per capita selling hemp, patchouli, and tie-dye products (source:  Etsy)
4. Percentage of Facebook users who express interest in the following: Grateful Dead, Phish, cannabis, tie-dye, peace, LSD, Bob Dylan, and hippies (source:  Facebook)

For these four criteria we ranked each state (and the District of Columbia) from 1-51, with one being the most hippie and 51 being the least. In the end, Vermont was declared Hippie Heaven and Mississippi earned the title of Hippie Hell. Keep in mind that the numbers below for each category indicate the state’s rank, not its score.

Sorry Groin!

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