Excerpt: “In the case of boomers—those born between 1946 and 1964—the whole frame is wrong. It’s based on birthrates, not common cultural and political affinities…Late Boomers, dubbed “Generation Jones”… make up the largest share of the voter pie—26 percent…if we weren’t convincing flower children (or anti-hippies, like George W. Bush), we weren’t part of Generation X either. The Gen-Xers were too cynical. Instead we became the perennial swing voters, with residual ’60s idealism mixed with the pragmatism and materialism of the ’80s. Even as demographers concluded that generations are really 10 to 15 years, not 20, no one represented us.”
