[patton]

Finally, somebody doesn't lump us with the damn boomers.

[Right Angler]

I was born in 1964, and that pretty much sums me up.

[Lurker]

Really.

L

[SoCal Pubbie]

I was born in 1957, and I was, I am and I always will be a boomer. This Jones stuff is bull.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Ain't that nice...far as I'm concerned, we always got the shorter end of the stick...

[MOgirl]

"Finally, somebody doesn't lump us with the damn boomers."



Hello,

LOL!

Glad to be here, (born 1965), MOgirl

[leda]

... and desrcibes me better for certain ;)
i have never thought of myself as a boomer.

[Controlling Legal Authority]

THE definitive study on generational issues for the masses, Strauss and Howe, defined the baby boomer generation ending around 1960. As I recall, they said that the BB generation's defining event was Vietnam and that if you were born after 1960 it wasn't the biggest event for you and your cohorts. (They also started the BB generation as starting around 1943, noting that the generation didn't have to have been actually born after the war to be a part of it. More of a mindset than a physical birth date.)
But, as I recall, they tended to support the concept of the latter arriving BBs being more conservative than the early BBs.
So, while the article is correct in noting attitudes of latter BBs, I think they are in error in tying in early Gen Xers to latter BBs. While some overlap is always going to happen between those born on the cusp of a generational change, I think they go too far. Even the conservative, latter born BBs are not the same as the early Gen Xers that followed them.

[sneakers]

Agreed!

[pollyannaish]

I'm on the bottom end...and sometimes get lumped in with Xers. I don't have any love for them either.

[Campion]

Finally, somebody doesn't lump us with the damn boomers.

Can someone please cue that .gif of the 1950's people applauding ... please?

The difference between us and the boomers is that we grew up hearing our fathers growl at the TV screen (full of boomers protesting the war in Vietnam), "D--n dirty hippies ... get a job!"

That, and many of us are proud to say that our first vote in a Presidential election was for the greatest President of the 20th Century.

[kalee]

Agreed. I spent all of Clinton's years in office opining that if he's the best my generation can come up with, we're sunk. Glad to hear I'm not in his generation, but have my own. :)