Your challenge is to swap the OTL reputations of Hippie subculture being inclusive / anti-racist and the Skinhead subculture being white power / fascist / racist within popular culture.
I don't know how hippies could be associated with the far right, but I could see them maybe having a reputation like modern hipsters: out of touch middle-class white kids.
The nice skinhead?
One could actually argue that the roots of skinhead subculture were more multicultural than the hippies, with the Jamaican/West Indian background and white kids digging black music - in contrast to the hippies, whose psychedelia faves were almost exclusively white. One way to do it would be to link the hippies more with Altamont, the Hell's Angels and Charles Manson. Then, they'd basically have a crypto-racist image, which might attract some far-right lunatics in the Seventies. On the other side, instead of "queer/Paki"-bashing, the black and white skins promote their image of togetherness and possibly link up with the more militant elements of the US civil rights movement, and political reggae artists like Peter Tosh. A skinhead version of the White Panthers, basically.
If the OP is defining hippies ideologically, then the idea of a switchover is a contradiction in terms, since hippies are almost by definition liberal. If they switched to right-wing, they would no longer be hippies.
That said, assuming we mean that the people who were hippies migrate en masse over to the right, but still maintain the sartorial and lifestyle trappings with which they were associated, I guess one scenario could be to have those hippies who were already into Hinduism. embrace some of the more reactionary elements of Hindu culture. Maybe some fascistic, proto-BJP guru gets a following among the counterculture(perhaps supplanting the Maharashi and the Hare Krishnas), and tells his followers to go harass gays and Muslims and whatever other groups he doesn't like. This could lead to violent street clashes with the Nation Of Islam, among others.
Things pretty much settle down in the 70s, as most of the guru's followers decide to get a life. But in 1982, some dead-enders carry out a few bombings of movie-theatres showing "Gandhi", prompting some wags to shake their heads bemusedly and say "Sheesh, what is this, the 60s all over again?"
The ATL racist Hippies do not necessarily have to be far-right, they would still define themselves as part of the left and retain their sympathy for Communism / Revolution just that they would later express disdain for other racial groups (perhaps initially towards their ideological opposites) akin to the Skinheads evolution in popular culture from originally a multicultural to a racist subculture.
How they start to express their racism is another matter, one idea would be in reaction to a US victory in Vietnam and the recognition given to African-Americans for their role (with the opposition to that war eventually being taken out on African-Americans / other minorities along similar lines to the OTL slander thrown at Vietnam Veterans), another would be minorities not subscribing to messages of extremism and revolution.
That said, assuming we mean that the people who were hippies migrate en masse over to the right, but still maintain the sartorial and lifestyle trappings with which they were associated, I guess one scenario could be to have those hippies who were already into Hinduism. embrace some of the more reactionary elements of Hindu culture. Maybe some fascistic, proto-BJP guru gets a following among the counterculture(perhaps supplanting the Maharashi and the Hare Krishnas), and tells his followers to go harass gays and Muslims and whatever other groups he doesn't like. This could lead to violent street clashes with the Nation Of Islam, among others.
Things pretty much settle down in the 70s, as most of the guru's followers decide to get a life. But in 1982, some dead-enders carry out a few bombings of movie-theatres showing "Gandhi", prompting some wags to shake their heads bemusedly and say "Sheesh, what is this, the 60s all over again?"
Not sure about hippies, but OTL there are explicitly anti-racist & anti-fascist skinhead movements:Your challenge is to swap the OTL reputations of Hippie subculture being inclusive / anti-racist and the Skinhead subculture being white power / fascist / racist within popular culture.
Not sure about hippies, but OTL there are explicitly anti-racist & anti-fascist skinhead movements:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinheads_Against_Racial_Prejudice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_and_Anarchist_Skinheads