What are the ages of those in the Gen X and Gen Z groups?

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41. Generation Jones also tends to skew more conservative than the earlier Boomers because of...

...their historical experience (the oil shocks, economic crises, deindustrialization, etc.) and the fact that they were too young to partake in the counterculture. Generation Jones is also known for ambition, social-climbing, and acquisitiveness. They were likely more represented among the "yuppies" and those that became neocons in their maturity, but that's highly debated.

There's a similar trend among Gen X. The older Xers (born 1970 and earlier) are often seen as having more in common with the later Boomers (Generation Jones); conversely, the younger Xers (born in the later '70s) are seen as closer in outlook to the Millennials (formerly called Gen Y). By the way, it's been suggested that Gen X should end at 1979, probably because that was an extremely eventful year historically (the crises in Central America, Iran, Afghanistan, the Carter "Crisis of Confidence" aka "Malaise" speech, etc.). You could argue that the '80s began in 1979.

I always wondered if the reason the historians and demographers came up with these new names (Millennials, "Zoomers", etc.) is because they were dumb enough to start at the end of the alphabet for Generation X! You only get two more generations after that before you have to rethink your whole naming strategy.