I think our groups were more along the lines of: Rock, Disco, Punk...

Disco? Really? I don't think we had a group like that at our high school. I graduated the same year you did, I think.

Our groups were very loose. There were nerds, I suppose, and arty types, and definite academic geeks, and jocks. There were stoners, too. But there was a lot of economic class stuff going on. The rich kids mostly stuck together, even though a lot of them were jocks as well as stoners. Some were both -- kids who played sports and got high/drank on weekends.

My friends were mostly middle class, we all worked, we all drank (not abusively, though) and most of us got high at one point or another. But we also knew how to get away with cutting class and drinking without getting into trouble. We flew under the radar, mostly. And most of us got decent or better grades and wanted to go to college, although there were peripheral people (boyfriends, in particular) who did hard drugs and were not scholars, by any means.

I feel in pretty good company, any way you look at it. It also shows you just how indecisive a Libra can be; it looks like most categories I had a hard time deciding which one I wanted to be in.

Punk/Rebel 56%

Geek 50%

Drama Nerd 50%

Goth 44%

Loner 44%

Ghetto gansta 31%

Prep/jock/cheerleader 31%

Stoner 19%

Well, music was one of the core things that divided kids in our town. Kids who liked dance music hung together, and kids who liked rock-n-roll hung together. There was certainly crossover, and it's not like there were pop and country cliques as well, but for a good number of kids, you could tell by their clothing what music they listened to, particularly the boys, and a select few of the girls.

Well, music was one of the core things that divided kids in our town.

That's so interesting. Music was huge at my school, too, but it didn't really contribute to the divisions. And weirdest of all, *no one* in our town danced. It was like the town in Footloose except it was our own fault. I think we thought we were too cool to dance, or something. It was very strange.

Me:

Drama nerd 81%
Goth 69%
Loner 63%
Geek 38%
Prep/Jock/Cheerleader 31%
Punk/Rebel 31%
Stoner 31%
Ghetto gangsta 19%

I have no idea why I scored so high on P/J/C, unless caring about grades is a prep trait as well as geek.

100% Punk/Rebel

I am JZ's complete lack of surprise.

music was one of the core things that divided kids in our town

That seems like a phenomenon that arose in the 80's. In the 70's it was all pretty much rock music. There may have been soft, medium and hard rock, but it was all just rock music. In fact, in Spain we had an unofficial Christmas party one year where we (the 70s high school graduates) mocked ourselves by calling ourselves the "Forgotten" generation and played only 70s music. Really, other than Meat Loaf and Innagadadavida, who remembers anything from the 70s?

That's so interesting. Music was huge at my school, too, but it didn't really contribute to the divisions. And weirdest of all, *no one* in our town danced. It was like the town in Footloose except it was our own fault. I think we thought we were too cool to dance, or something. It was very strange.

Well maybe it didn't divide the kids so much as highlight the differences between cliques. The older we got, the more crossover there was, though, and contrary to popular mythology, I think it was easier for girls to crossover. I pretty much floated between the cliques.

NO ONE IN YOUR TOWN DANCED? Wow.

What about "Oh Girl" "I can see clearly Now" "Me and Mrs. Jones" "Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time?" (sticking up for The Other Side of The Seventies.)

You scored as Prep/Jock/Cheerleader.

Prep/Jock/Cheerleader

Ghetto gangsta

Geek

Punk/Rebel

Goth

Drama nerd

Loner

Stoner

shocked, I know.

Stick up for it all you want, erika, I still forgot/forget 'em. See what I mean?