The level of patriotism for both Democrats and Republicans was extremely high in those days. That’s why so many hippies were reviled by adults in the sixties. So many of them were leftists who not only expressed hatred of capitalism, many of them openly called the U.S. evil. But they, the leftists, were the evil people. And believe me, there were just as many commies in the universities as there is now. Except the popular culture and most politicians were still pro-America. That has changed in the last fifty years. Now conservatives fight battles on three fronts: politicians, entertainers, and the old foes academicians.
True. My maternal grandparents were staunch Democrats but they detested the hippie movement and Soviet communism. They were churchgoing, Bible-reading Baptists and firm 2nd amendment proponents. And they certainly never would have believed that in less than 30 years after their deaths, there would ever have been a debate on whether marriage consisted of one man to one woman.
The communists did their job well(see Communist Goals of 1963, put in the public record by a Democratic Congressman from Florida)-
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm