What generation are you?

[Odin2005]

Poll question: What generation are you?

All the generation talk coming from Obama's recent remarks on Boomers and the Generation Jones thread has made me curious. The generation dates in the poll are from a book I've read on US social history called Generations by historian William Strauss.

[Clintonista2]

1. Born 1988. nm

[annabanana]

2. k&r. . n/t

[ruggerson]

3. Actually, the Baby Boom is generally considered to have ended in 1964

n/t

[padia]

5. thats what I have always thought

I was born in december '62

[Breeze54]

6. Ended in 1960...according to this graph.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/weekinreview/21broder.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

[onehandle]

11. Wikipedia says 1945-1964.

Wikipedia wins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer

[Breeze54]

19. I read that and it seems people are

arguing that a 'generation' should really be ten years or something like that but families had
a lot of kids back then. I'm guessing that's the thinking behind including the 40's thru the 60's.

I don't know. :shrug:

[Texas_Kat]

47. A generation is 25 years

The Boomer generation started when the GIs came home from WWII and ended 25 years later.

[Iris]

65. It is starting to be defined in MUCH smaller increments -

like 4 years.

[Hekate]

107. That's more like a cohort.The standard historical "generation" is 20 years, birth to reproducing age

[Iris]

131. well, sociologists are calling cohorts generations then

Because things change so rapidly, people even only 5 years apart have remarkably different experiences.

[parasim]

21. Older millennial, I presume?

hehe... Although I'm a younger boomer (apparently), I always thought it was '64 and I also tend to trust the wiki.

[daninthemoon]

31. Yup. I'm a 1962, and have always counted as a late boomer.

[Odin2005]

16. That's the same dates as in the book I mentioned.

[Thirtieschild]

38. 1935 We are called the Silent Generation in the graph

and were called the Silent Generation at the time. We haven't hand - won't have - a president. McCain doesn't have a chance. Thank God.

[johnnie]

10. I was born in 64

I never felt as though we were any part of the boomers. That's close to my parent's generation and I'm not part of that. Then again, I was nothing like the Xers either. So who knows?

[phaseolus]

17. Some people call us 'Generation Jones'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

I was born in 1960 and like you I never felt like I was in the same generation as my older brothers and sisters born '47-'52. Different music, culture, politics.

[truedelphi]

37. DO you know that astrologers find that you need to determine things about the planet

Uranus to determine the years of the generations? Traditionally, Uranus is paired off with revolution and electronic energy.

The older baby boomers were Uranus in Cancer - a revolution of the domestic goddesses. Women's lib.
Re-structure relationships and question authority. Ends about 1953.

Then you go into Uranus in Leo - and there is a sense that you should "Take it easy - open up your heart. "Put aside strictness. Be free." The Leo lion is heart energy.

Then you go into Uranus in Virgo starting around 1958 - and when this group was in their mid-twenties, electronica in music was a given.

The other groups sort out around Uranus as well.

[pink-o]

67. Don't forget, planets go into retrograde...

...I'm born December 1954 (and BTW, I'm not a "Jones" I'm a Boomer as far as the demographic can be seen) and I have Uranus in Cancer.

I think a far more accurate barometer is Neptune, the planet of dreams and ideals. For the most part, Boomers have Neptune in Libra: peace, love and equal justice for all. Neptune in Scorpio gave us a generation of science geeks, who came into their own in the 90s and bestowed this killer technology that I love so much.

The Neptune timeline just seems to work for me.

[truedelphi]

94. OH - (smacking head for a second). I knew that but I couldn't

Remember exactly how it fit into place. You spelled it out nicely.

Thanks. You saved me a trip to the dusty basement to find the older of my astrology books.

[pink-o]

123. Yeah. My 20th century ephemeris used to get thumbed through

...every day. I even had a slide rule to chart planetary motions...

Thank Gawd for computers!


So to segue back OT somewhat. When I first did natal charts in my 20s, most of the recepients were baby boomers, and the most boomin' year of all? 1956. To this day I know more people born that year than any other in the entire 20th century.

Those WWII vets musta reallllly got busy from April 55 to March 56! Any great social happenings back then?

[truedelphi]

133. Can't say that I know about the reason why the species

Acted like bunnies those months.

Maybe if you were a nineteen year old soldier in 1945, you were old enough to marry and have kids ten years later??

Though that effect should be persistent for more than a few months...

[Buns_of_Fire]

129. Huh huh huh huh she said "Uranus" huh huh heh heh huh.

Sorry. Even some of us older boomer feebs watched "Beavis and Butthead" while sipping our Geritol martinis...

[deutsey]

59. I have never heard of this, but it makes so much sense

I was born in '64 and never fit the Boomer mentality but also never fit the X'er thing either.

[Dulcinea]

66. I guess that would be me.

Born in 1965.

I'm not a boomer & am too old for Generation X.

[driver8]

33. I feel the same way. I was born in '62.

Definitely not a boomer, and never really identified with the Gen-Xers.

I am a man without a generation!!

[B Calm]

93. cost of reg. gas in 1962 was 31 cents on average..

[HughMoran]

92. Yes, suddenly being lumped into GenX is ridiculous

I think the '64 definition is more realistic.

[Breeze54]

4. "Younger" Boomer...Except

"Hell no, we won't go!!!" also applies to the "younger boomers".

My ex-husband (born 1952) was drafted into the Vietnam War and it was still raging in 1974!

[Buzz Clik]

7. I'm not in the age group, but I've got the Green Day song as my ringtone.

[mitchum]

8. I belong to the Blank Generation (1953-1960)

[Richard Steele]

112. I was born in 1968, and yet...

...I can "take it or leave it" each time. :shrug:

[bluestateguy]

9. A moment of silence please, to mourn the great Kurt Cobain

[hiphopnation]

43. *head bowed*

i was never a great fan, but i felt the pain in his music...he was too sensitive for this world, as i feel from time to time...

a very smart man

[Bluebear]

12. Wow, the majority of us are irrelevant to Obama!

[asdjrocky]

14. 1960

I'm with ya, don't talk to them about the price of gas... they look at you like you're an alien.

[Bluebear]

24. welcome to DU, rocky!

[asdjrocky]

26. Ty for the welcome

I feel less crazy now that I've found this place. On another note, I'll be at a town meeting in Reno NV with JE next weekend, if I get a chance, any ideas on what I might ask him?

[Bluebear]

27. Name your poison.

Find the issue nearest to your heart and personal reality and ask for his take on it, what he will do.

[asdjrocky]

34. Thanks for the reply

I do have some time to think about it.

[gateley]

13. I'm younger baby boomer - 1953 and I'm screaming at your "prices have

gone up HOW much?" -- I keep telling people I saw The Beatles for $5.00. I'm zipping my lip from this moment on. :hi:

[Odin2005]

18. LOL, my dad was born in 1953 and he always like to rub it in about how...

...things were so cheap when he was a teen! :rofl: :hi:

[asdjrocky]

22. Yes

But we were forced to work for frankincense and (sp?)mere. It wasn't pretty.

[pink-o]

68. And our birth certificates were written on papyrus.

...these kids just kill me when they reveal that their parental units are younger than I am.

I work with embryos and zygotes, born in 1987!!!! (and I love them)

[gateley]

42. I remember one 4th of July when my parents were up at some lake party out

of town, and my friend and I took my mom's car (we were 13). I really didn't know how to read the gas gauge but it was pretty close to E so I pulled into a gas station. I gave the guy a dollar (at that time no one pumped their own gas) and my friend hollered -- No! that's too much gas -- you mom will be able to tell! And the $1 brought the indicator almost up to 3/4 of a tank! So see? Your dad was RIGHT! (And my mom never caught on.)

[pink-o]

69. check this out...

my friends and I drove across the country, from San Francisco to New York, June of 1977 for guess what reason??? To see Led Zeppelin at MSG. We were in a Volkswagen squareback station wagon, and gas one way cost us between 50 and 60 dollars.

Not only did I never envision that I'd be paying that much every 2 weeks for gas, but I also never thought the next generation would love Zep the way that we did 30 years later!!!!

[gateley]

71. Ha! I saw Led Zep during their first tour when they opened for Vanilla Fudge!

Tickets were, you guessed it, $5!

I had a squareback, too!!

[pink-o]

83. Man you Boomers are O*L*D!!!!

(Me, too. 53 on December 16)



:headbang:

[asdjrocky]

75. LOL small world

I say Zep in 77 in Oakland Ca

[pink-o]

86. Yeah, so did I. Day on the Green, right?

...About a year ago, I saw the resurgence of those Zep 77 concert tour t-shirts. I was at work, and this young zygote, about 18 came to check in for a flight wearing one. I almost fell backwards, and I said to him: "I was at a lot of gigs on that 77 tour, saw 'em twice in the Garden, in the old LA Forum, and in the bay area. I even had the same shirt, once upon a time."

Kid just looked at me like, yeah, whatever, Grandma. But I merely felt sorry for him, cuz even though we didn't have IPods or downloads, we really did have some amazing rock and roll. And those young thangs can wear the shirts, own the catalogues, but (not to play the age card) they weren't THERE.

As for the x-ers, I love their music too. But that great '90s sound has also passed into time. Pearl Jam's latest disc has got nothing on "Ten". Nor will Live ever do another album like "Throwing Copper". Oasis's brilliant stuff is in the past as well, even if they could solve their fratenal issues.

Just waitin for the next great musical innovation. Cuz everyone knows that every generation has a soundtrack.

[shanti]

109. 1955

i'll be 52 on the 17th - woo hoo! :party: and one of my echo boomer sons is making me a grandma next year:)!

[pink-o]

122. Awesome! Congratulations.

...how did a nice Sagittarian like you ever find the ability to commit to having kids? I was always too scared to put my instability and quixotic nature to the test of motherhood. Although I wish I were a grandma now, instead of just being old enough for the job!

It's the boomer mentality--and my own anti-aging formula. You just act immature, and no one believes you're as old as you are.

So anyway, happy b'day next month! It's amazing how quickly we're rackin' 'em up these days!


Anja

[Texas_Kat]

48. That explains a lot

[havocmom]

49. Me 'n yer dad paid a lot less for gas

and hamburger... das a fact!

[sandnsea]

30. I remember when $40 bought food for a week

I just said that in the grocery store tonight. :rofl:

A friggin' chicken was SEVEN damn dollars.

Yeah, I guess I'm going to have to zip my lip too.

[gateley]

40. Don't get me started..... :-) nt

[AtomicKitten]

87. ditto

[Just-plain-Kathy]

15. This should be interesting... K&R ..n/t

[Fox Mulder]

20. Older Millennial Generation

[madrchsod]

23. my sister was born in 41

and a big jfk supporter and the hope for her generation ,i was born in 47 bobby was the hope for mine. these are pretty dam accurate time lines...yup i`m one of those obama was talking

[ret5hd]

25. I am ret5hd-2.0...Much improved over ret5hd-1.9 (the last stable release)...

With new typing and sarcasm engines, i am able to snark at twice the speed as before! And my bullshit detectors! one word: outasight! And that's just my internet skills. I can belch and fart at up to 92 dB, and i can waste more time at work than ever before!

[Lilith Velkor]

28. Elder X

Pardon me President Reagan
But who are the terrorists now?
This isn't a movie we're making
Who are the terrorists now?

Contra-contrived, Grumman thrives
Death skull tanks now mobilized
Why not send them food supplies?
Swords into plowshares

Guns, planes, napalm flames
Stenciled proudly our nation's name
So the dying can read who's to blame

Exporting excess of overkill whose deadly tools show our goodwill!
Other nations acquiesce, at Sidra we bang our chest!

All you who voted for Reagan
Who are the terrorists now?
This isn't a movie we're making
Who are the terrorists now?

Why earn a madman's wrath until neither side has the last laugh?
The fuck with the Nuclear Test Ban, who are the peacekeepers now?

And somehow we're blaming the Russians
Asking, who are the terrorists now?
No profits in weapons reductions
So who are the terrorists now?

Those who voted for Reagan
Who are the terrorists now?
Efforts for peace all forsaken
'Cause we are the best so fuck all the rest
Yes, we are the chest-beating terrorists now!

[dysfunctional press]

29. Generation Jones- we're the ones between the boomers and the gen-xers.

born in 1961, i identify much more with gen-x than with the boomers.

[proud patriot]

32. Older Gen X born in 69 Official Love Child

born to 2 hippies in SF ..Lived in a communne house accross
the street from GG park .

:headbang:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

46. If I told you my real first name...

you'd know I was born to two hippies in 69 too. :)

[havocmom]

50. Moon Unit! Is that YOU?

;)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

52. well, not quite...

I mean, they were cool, but they didn't do acid. :P

[proud patriot]

102. LOL

:hug:

[OnionPatch]

35. I barely make it as a baby-boomer.

If I were born six months later, I'd be a Gen-X.

[knitter4democracy]

36. 1974, Hubby, too.

It's hard to think of people not that much younger than we who don't remember the Cold War at all when it was such a huge part of our lives in the 80s with Reagan scaring the crap out of us kids.

[BamaGirl]

89. Isn't that weird?

I was born in '72. I had the strangest conversation with my oldest two (10 and 11) the other day who wanted to know did we really have bomb shelters and nuclear drills and worry about a nuclear war when I was kid? They couldn't believe it. Even with as crazy as they know the world is, that seems over the top to them. Sad thing is I don't know that with that crazy man in the WH this is a fear we should be so quick to abandon. :(

[knitter4democracy]

113. I remember having to explain to my students that we still have nukes.

They thought we'd gotten rid of them all. Really. Then, I had to explain that we really don't have a missle defense system. That one shocked them--they'd always heard about it and assumed it was real.

[Breeze54]

39. Isn't "Older Millennial Generation" called Gen Y?

:shrug:

[Odin2005]

57. I hate the term Generation Y. It's makes us sound like an extension of Generation X.

:P

[provis99]

62. yeah, I hate the tag Gen Y too. They have their own identity.

Incidentally, Gen Y is pretty likable. Not like the baby boomer megalomaniacs.

[Lilith Velkor]

70. I used to live with a guy who called his cohort Generation "Why?"

They're witty, to boot.

[kineneb]

41. 1958- old enough to remember JFK

graduated high school in 1976...
the war in Vietnam was the background of my childhood...
or why I dislike BushCo's policies so much: history repeating itself.

[Swamp Rat]

44. "Older Generation X" is not the name of that generation.

They are called "Space Babies."

[GreenPartyVoter]

101. We are?

[Swamp Rat]

103. Yep

:patriot:

[GreenPartyVoter]

117. That is way cool!

[TwilightGardener]

45. Older Gen X--1969. Pre-boomer parents.

[enigmatic]

51. I belong to The Blank Generation

And I can take it or leave it each time.

[Jamastiene]

105. ...

Aaah, Richard Hell rules!!!! :yourock:

[bridgit]

53. Older Generation X

[MrSlayer]

54. 1970

But I'm not all that into the stock market, regrettably.

[Perry Logan]

55. Older Boomer here. IQ's started dropping after we came along.

[JVS]

56. 1943 is not baby-boom

[Odin2005]

58. The younger war babies have little or no memory of WW2.

They generally associate themselves with Boomers even though they are not techically part of the demographic boom.

[WinkyDink]

96. Neither do I, born in 1949. Nor would one born in 1940. SO? It is a POST-WWII demographic.

[JTFrog]

60. Generation WTF.

[Labors of Hercules]

97. otherwise known as "all of the above". nt

[troubleinwinter]

61. I was a teen growing up in Berkeley in the 60s. I saw my city occupied by the National Guard and

bivouacked on the edge of town for a week... military tanks rolling down our streets. Peace demonstrators corralled, compressed and contained by NG on university campus and then teargassed by military helicopters. I saw friends/demonstrators horribly beaten by state police. One shot to death.

We, from the 60s are still here. Yes, still fighting.

I do not take the comments by Obama lightly or well.

[Milo_Bloom]

63. Older Gen X, but identify more with Younger Gen X

[verse18]

64. Younger Generation X

Or the MTV Generation.

[redqueen]

72. Pets.com stock?

:wtf:

[AlCzervik]

73. seconded.

[Odin2005]

78. I was trying to make a funny comment about the Dot.com bubble. n/t/

[needledriver]

74. Turned 18 in 1972

The year they stopped drafing people. My draft "random sequence number" was 34.

That's 34 out of 365. Your draft number was based on your birthday.

Since they had stopped the draft I didn't pay much attention to it. Nearly a year later I saw an article in the paper about how many eligible youths had not registered for the draft and what kind of trouble they could get in. I went down to the Draft Board. They gave me the fisheye, but no further grief. I carried my Draft Card in my wallet until I was 35.

[Matariki]

76. younger baby boom and the boyfriend is younger gen x

;-)

[Odin2005]

77. Bit of an age gap there, isn't it?

:rofl: :hi:

[Chovexani]

79. Younger Gen X

Though, at 1981, I don't think I belong in Gen X. I was in junior high when grunge got big. :shrug:

[livetohike]

80. Older boomer born in 1952

I remember going down to register to vote with six of my friends. We were pretty excited to finally get the right to vote at 18...and I have never missed an election since.

[Greyskye]

81. 1962

This is the first time I've ever seen that year NOT considered part of the Baby Boom. 1964 has always been the listed date for the end of that period.

[LSdemocrat]

82. I was born in 1980, but never really identifed much with people my age, culturally

[tammywammy]

84. 1980 n/t

[Mike03]

85. Generation X here

For some strange reason, I'm really happy someone designed this poll. I've been curious about the demographics of DU for a long time, and it's not always easy to guess the age of other DUers, since we all tend to be extremely intelligent... (smilie here)

[BamaGirl]

88. I'm a '72 Xer

And I resent being lumped in with that 81 crowd lol. ;) Seriously, my cousins born after 79 or 80 have and have always had a very different outlook than me.

And since I have 3 kids under the age of 12 I'm constantly asking, PRICES HAVE GONE UP HOW MUCH!? Especially over the last 2-3 years. The grocery store is killing me. :( Otoh, I'm not nearly as, um, anti social as I used to be. Amazing how kids change that lol. :D

[MiniMandaRuth]

90. 1991.

No boyfriend. And I don't spell my sentences like 'omg lyke this guy was hotness!1111 and u shuld of se3n hIM!"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

115. Of course you do, you closet MySpacer.

And then we go home and rock out to Baby Boy Da Prince and go on the floor and grind.

:P :P

:hi:

[MiniMandaRuth]

120. Myspace:Yes

Grind: Who hasn't.

Baby Boy Da Prince: I should kill you.




:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

121. "This...is...the...way I live."

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[B Calm]

91. 1951 Vintage / Japan and the US sign a pact which allows American

troops to stay in Japan indefinitely. Florence Chadwick is the first women to cross the English Channel. Hermann Flake is sentenced to death due to a hate campaign against German Democratic Republic. The first full color television broadcast from the Empire State Building. The Atomic Energy Commission builds the first nuclear fission reactor power plant. The 22nd Amendment is ratified limiting the tenure of the U.S. presidency to two terms. Will Kellogg, the inventor of Corn Flakes passes away. Radio commentator Paul Harvey is arrested for trying to sneak into the Argonne National Laboratory, in Chicago, Illinois. World Series Champion, New York Yankees. U.S. Open Golf, Ben Hogan. Pro Football Champion, Los Angeles Rams. Indy 500 winner, Lee Wallard/126.244 MPH. NCAA Basketball Champion, Kentucky. College Football Champion, Tennessee. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam T. Rayburn (D). Life Expectancy, 68.2 years. New House cost $9,000.00. Average Income was $3,515.00. New Car cost $1,520.00. Tuition to Harvard University $600.00 per year. Gasoline was 19 cents a gallon. Movie Ticket was 65 cents each. U.S. Postage stamp was 3 cents. On October 7th, 1951 John Cougar Mellencamp was born in Seymour, Indiana. Kurt Russell was born March 17, 1951 in Springfield, MA. Dan Fogelberg was born on August 13, 1951. I was born April 7, 1951 in Danville, Illinois.......

[WinkyDink]

95. 1943 isn't part of the Baby Boom, which by definition = those born POST-WWII.

[BelgianMadCow]

98. 1973. Dang DU is full of oldies!!!1!!

how can they be so hip?

:wtf:

[pink-o]

125. We started hipness, my young friend.

...albeit, many from my generation have forgotten their liberal roots. But OTOH, I'm thrilled to see so many posting here who've stuck with their social principles. There's some stupid saying about if you're young and you're not liberal, you have no heart, but if you're old and you're not conservative you have no brain.

I'd like to amend that to "you have brain enough not to let it be washed by years of marketing."

We were the original: "Question Authority" generation. If there's any one thing I'd like to see us pass on, it would be that attitude.

[BelgianMadCow]

132. You did pass that on, I think

And on marketing : I am very much aware of being sold new "needs". And that has come to me to a large degree by a DU discussion. So keep it up!

[LWolf]

99. 1960. n/t

[samplegirl]

100. The reason you gotta love the elderly...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY

[Jamastiene]

104. I'm Older Generation X, but my tagline would read more

like the Younger Generation X.

"I want to be the minority, I don't need your authority, down with the Moral Majority, because I want to be the minority..." is so much closer to being my motto... :D

[Lone_Star_Dem]

106. Older Gen-X who loves Green Day

And didn't get caught up in the dot.com bubble.

Perhaps I was a late bloomer? :shrug:

[fizzgig]

108. i was trying to figure out today what generation i am

i was born in 81 and it varies depending on what source you use

and that song is one of my favorites :)

[Guaranteed]

110. What you refer to as the Korean War generation is generally referred

to as the "Silent" generation.

And the Gen X period is a little shorter than you have up there....not quite twenty years. Usually, the dominant generations (baby boom and millenial) tend to have longer periods than the recessive, simply because people on the ends are naturally attracted to those traits.

[nonconformist]

111. Younger Generation X, 1973

[WritingIsMyReligion]

114. Reppin' 1991 and the younger milennial gen.

I don't know what to think of us or of 'Boomers. 'Boomer music is largely superior to ours, but I don't blame Obama for getting sick of other parts of 'Boomer-ness.

We're next up, so all y'all 'Boomers better be ready. :P

[michreject]

116. Older Baby Boom, born 1952

Remember the protest marches at Wayne State University in Detroit, followed by a WABX promoted concert at Tarter field.

[onenote]

118. I think a lot of folks born in '53 identify with the older baby boom group more than the younger

If you were born in 1953, you fall right on the seam between the generation most impacted by Vietnam and the generation that was unaffected by it. Essentially no one born in 1953 was drafted, but at the time of that year's lottery, that wasn't known to be the case. I was born in 53 and have a number of classmates who got low lottery numbers and either fled to Canada, joined ROTC, or, like me, pursued and obtained a CO deferment. Many of us were very caught up in the entire anti-war movement.

Just sayin..

[hedgetrimmer]

119. What is the purpose of labeling generations? Census!

Why census? To ensure that your pocket of contemporaries are exposed to a series of technology and entertainment based sales pitches according to the marketing strategies used on people born between date A and date B. There may be more reasons, for example this poll, Obama's use of identifying "generations" and the use there of to sell himself to other labeled "generations".

We are a community, segregated by ideas as labels and it is our responsibility to not let those ideas get in our way as we struggle with the fates of today and attempt to make the best of tomorrow. We can not use those labeling ideas to persuade groups to act according to their demographic; We must use us all together and the altruistic concepts laid down by those who came before us. There can be no manipulation only action.

[The_Warmth]

124. '87 wha!

[Breeze54]

127. lol!

Welcome to DU!! :hi:

[Breeze54]

126. WOW!! ~~ 240 ~~ Baby Boomers on DU!!!

:D

[Buns_of_Fire]

130. Currently, 52% of those expressing a preference...

Of which I am one of those who've organized, marched, been gassed, and still have scars from chunks of concrete thrown at me. Ergo, to wit, and therefore, Sen. Obama can kiss my wrinkled, saggy ass.

[eggman67]

128. 1967

Technically older Gen X but I've never really identified with that or the Boomers.