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[Cathy <goosecreekfarm AT gmail.com>]

Did we have this drive to name ourselves, our generation, before the
boomers?  I haven't studied or researched this, but I always figured that
the term "baby boom" originally simply described birthrates following WWII,
which eventually declined again in the early 60s.

Like Obama, my birthdate places me within the boomers' ranks.  I had just
finished kindergarten during the summer of love.

Cathy
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

>
> Book: The Age Wave, by Ken Dychtwald is often offered as the
> authority. He says 46 to 64.
>
> Wikipedia says:
> Baby boomer is a term used to describe a person who was born during
> the demographic Post-World War II baby boom(1946-1964) [1][2] , and is
> also a term used to describe a person who is part of the Baby Boom
> Generation (controversial birth years, starting as early as 1942,
> ending as early as 1953, ending as late as 1964). Originally, everyone
> born during the 1946-1964 boom in births was considered part of the
> Baby Boom Generation, but over time, many experts have come to believe
> that two separate cultural generations were born during this period.
> The most common name used for the younger generation born then is
> Generation Jones. Many influential experts and publications now use
> the term Generation Jones, and the victory of Barack Obama, born in
> 1961, in November 2008 significantly increased the awareness of
> Generation Jones, with many experts pointing to Obama as the first
> Generation Jones President.[3] [4][5][6] The most widely-used
> beginning year for Generation X is 1965, although a small but
> passionate group of people sometimes argue the minority view that
> Generation X started as early as 1961.
> Following World War II, many countries, such as the United States,
> Canada, Australia, and New Zealand experienced an unusual spike in
> birth rates, a phenomenon commonly referred to as the baby boom.
>
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