ow, even without tickets, or any means to get them. They make their money in the parking lot (outside the shows), selling self-made tie-dies, beaded necklaces and bracelets, food and beverages, and other random items. They have their own little portable community which, from within, has become peopled with doctors and teachers. To emphasize that Deadheads as a group are separate from mainstream American society, we need only to review the profiles documented in the literature: "46% of Deadheads are single, 28% married, and only 5%(!) divorced; politically, 69% of Deadheads are either left of center (23%), liberal (36%), or radical (10%)" (Scott 482). This illustrates a consistency in the literature showing that Deadheads are, indeed a separate group, no matter how measured. Compare this to the statistics of the mainstream: in American society, approximately 50% of those who marry, get divorced. In mainstream American society, the number of people who vote 'left of center' is significantly lower than 69%. Regarding religion, compare the following datum with mainstream American society: in a survey, 46% of Deadheads report "None" for religion; 11% report "My Own" (Scott 482). Res ipsa loquitur. Having established that they are a separate group, the argument then becomes, where on the sociological spectrum does this group fit. In the beginning, Deadheads were countercultural. According to Zellner himself, a leading authority on countercultures, "a counterculture is one deliberately opposed to certain aspects of the larger culture" (Zellner vii). If this "deliberate opposition" this rebellion, to what their parents, teachers, society, government, and religious leaders had been forcing on them did not exist, then Deadheads would never have formed such an identifiable group with such staying power. Youths used music to express independence fro
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