"The people at the Free Farm were middle-class kids, emulating the Red Clover hippies, and the J. P. was the Ellis Island of the commune movement, drawing people with nowhere to go and nothing else to do."

"These are middle-class kids."

Later she realized that her own children were middle-class suburban kids with comforts unlike her own.

The "youth movement" which rallied around the anti-Vietnam War synecdoche may have been directed by political activists, but its vastest numbers were simply middle-class kids who didn't want their asses blown off in some Southeast Asian jungle.

When you watch a middle-class American kid playing next to this refugee kid, sharing tips, laughing together, it s amazing, Mr. Vogelaar said.

"The 'Beats' are mostly middle-class kids looking for kicks," he wrote in 1960.

"Yeah, a lot of these guys are middle-class kids, went to college, the whole thing," Itzler said.

'And then there's George Harrison on 'All Things Must Pass', and The Stones; I was a massive Stones fan, and like a lot of white middle-class American kids, it was The Stones that led me back into listening to a lot of early blues.

Say you were a middle-class American white kid in 1964.