Quote Originally Posted by Philbo View Post
One reason for the resentment of long hairs were their association with the anti Vietnam war movement at the time. It seemed like the flag burners and protesters all wore long hair and were percieved as unamerican. Long hairs were called " frats " and short hairs were called " greasers ".
"Frat" was also synonymous with "soc" [[pronounced as in social). In high school in the mid 60's, the frats were likely to give college a spin. The greasers were more likely going off to get a job or to Vietnam. Percentages varied from school to school. I don't think that either term was ever applied to Blacks. Frats tended to have short 'Princeton' hair cuts. The terms frats and greasers preceeded long hair and hippies. Long hairs came from the frat population but were seldom former greasers.