“Hippies of late 60’s are now in their 50’s”. I think your math may be a little off. Assuming that in 1968 and 1969 the “hippies” were between 18 and 25 that would put them somewhere between mid or late 60’s in 2012. By the way, a lot of them other than the ones dead of Drug OD’s are tenured professors at our colleges and teaching your kids.
Thank you for the math lesson. But y'all are missing my point. "Baby Boomers" refers to the boom of births 9 months after the return of the GIs from WWI.
So, starting in '45, that would make them, as "from occupied ga" points out, 67 or so.
According to
wikipedia, the spike was really from 1944 to 1948.
Demographers use various ranges in that timeline, from 1944 - 1964.
The true boomers, those firstborn after the war, ended before 1950.