Baby boomers not all alike

Sun News/ Myrtlebeachonline ^ | 7/11/04 | Jeffrey Zaslow

[CyberCowboy777]

okay.

Reagan won most of the demos by margins and a won majority of the popular vote.

Clinton won two demos specifically by margins, with a minority of the popular vote.

Also both Senior groups represent slightly different era's being 8 years apart.

[cyncooper]

If my generation causes damage to the culture then I accept blame on the generation.

Why is that so difficult to do for you boomers?

Are you asking us to assume guilt for what a group did? I know I've observed many a freeper boomer rail about the cultural nonsense that led to many of our current problems. That doesn't mean we participated in it by happening to be born in that generation.

The problem on threads like this is some can't discuss specifics without then castigating a whole group of innocents.

[Howlin]

She can have mine! I'll either die first or get my husband's.........LOL.

You're officially OFF the hook!

[cyncooper]

Exactly

[cyncooper]

Who here is willing to accept responsibility for their generation?

LOL!

Why should someONE "accept responsibility for their generation".

Absurd.

[Old Professer]

The sexual revolution has gone out of orbit.

[CyberCowboy777]

1970 Voting Rights Act was the lowering of the voting age to 18.

In 1964 only the first year of the considered "boom" (1946) was old enough to vote.

76 million people born between 1946 and 1964 and I know the Birth rates peaked at the year 1957. Not knowing the number for 1946 we could divide the number by the 18 years of the boom to get 4.2 million Baby Boomer votes in 1964.

LBJ won the Pop. Vote: 42,825,463 (60.6%).

The Boomer did not have enough votes to swing the election one way or another, even if you included another 4.2M for 1945.

[CyberCowboy777]

Are you stating that a generation cannot be responsible for an impact on the society?

My generation will be responsible for an impact on the society, that does not mean I am personally responsible.

[cyncooper]

Discussing TRENDS does not equate expressing anger. Don't take it so personal!

LOL!

I'm sorry, but by your above-it-all approach sounds so silly.

Carry on.

[cyncooper]

I don't like to see generational warfare fomented here. It is counterproductive

It's bizarre. It is better to discuss phenomenon such as certain cultural movements and events and determine the decade or era that they occurred and the preceding events that may have set the stage and the fallout of same.

But those who deny that nobody is being attacked are misguided (if not deliberately fomenting discord).

[Nowhere Man]

And I like the way Howe and Strauss divided the 'X' generation into 'Atari' and 'Nintendo' X-ers. I turn 40 next month, and certainly have very little in common with early boomers; however, the same could be said of my my tatooed and pierced brethren in the Nintendo wave of the 13th gen.

I can accept that explaination, I would be a member of the "Atari X'ers." I just turned 38 last week on the 8th so yeah, I do see that division there. For the most part, i feel I have very little in common with the later X'ers too.

[GVnana]

Who you calling "Kid"? I'm a grandmother and a baby boomer and I don't think the "Greatest Generation" is a sacred cow no matter how many blue hairs they have.

Futhermore, my children are Gen-Xers, and it's their generation that's fighting the war on terror, and maybe it's high time we started cutting these "Kids" some slack.

They don't have the same future to look forward to, that the "greatest generation" had. So if anyone is falling down on the job, perhaps it's due to a self-congratulatory and self-aggrandizing generation that bailed-out when the check came due while they were busy patting themselves on the back.

[cyncooper]

Are you stating that a generation cannot be responsible for an impact on the society?

I think events that occur and those that participate in them and those that try to counteract them impact society.

It is best to discuss the specific events and decades in a historical context rather than berate a whole group based on their age.

[glock rocks]

They don't have the same future to look forward to, that the "greatest generation" had.

Absolutely correct. They have potential ten-fold over the blue haired crowd. They'll pee it away at their own peril. Perhaps a few of them listened to someone who'd been around, someone with character, someone in whom they had trust.

Perhaps not.

[qam1]

Ping list for the >discussion excoriation of the politics and social aspects that directly effects Gen-Reagan/Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including of all the spending previous generations (i.e. The Baby Boomers) are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

So we are suppose to happily pay for all your goodies and not complain at all? Gee I wonder why people say Baby Boomers are selfish.

Stop whining, X'er. It's getting you nowhere but bitter. When you reach my tax bracket, you might have a clue.

I'm not bitter, As  Forbes calls us “ the most entrepreneurial generation in American history.” and we are the ones who ushered in the Information Age so despite what you Baby Boomers like to believe my Generation already has a good legacy, As for your generation, well the baby boomers have already secured their place as the most selfish and worst generation in American history. 100 years from now when you and I are both gone and Gen Z+4 is still paying off the debt you ran up do you really think history is going to look kindly on the baby boomers?

[vikingchick]

I wonder if you could find any demographic info on the people born from 1946 - 1964 and how many kids the people had during these years. What I'm trying to find out is if there were more kids born to the front end boomers as opposed to the end ones, or is it just about equal?

For instance, did the people born in 1946-1956 have more kids later on than the ones from 1956 - 1964? It's just something I've been wondering about. If you know where to find such info, I thank you in advance.

[qam1]

This may help

I believe the later Boomers who gave birth to Gen-Ys had more kids than early Boomers. The Peak Birth years of Gen-Y are the late 1980's which was probably the end of child bearing for the Hippy early Boomers.

[beef]

"we are the ones who ushered in the Information Age"


Lets see, Alan Turing did his work in the 30's, stored program computers and the transistor were invented in the 40's, and the IC and the basics of computer science were invented in the 50's. The 60's saw large scale transistorization, the fundamental theory of packet switching, and the invention of hypertext, the 70's the invention of the microprocessor and arpanet,and the 80's the Internet and the widespread availability of personal computers. In the 90's it all came together and GenXers started writing web pages. Ergo, GenXers singlehandedly ushered in the Information Age. NOT.

Given the number of dot-com companies that collapsed, I think all they should really take credit for is the invention of "vaporware" and the worlds largest reservoir of hubris.

[wtc911]

1970 Voting Rights Act was the lowering of the voting age to 18. In 1964 only the first year of the considered "boom" (1946) was old enough to vote.

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Um, a little basic math (very basic)....1946 plus 21 = 1967. With us so far?

In 1964 absolutely no boomers were 21, the legal voting age at the time. The first election year when any boomers were old enough to vote (21) was 1968 and then it was only those born before November 1947, not very many no matter how you look at it.

[wtc911]

In the 90's it all came together.......

Fueled by boomer capital.