Scholars tracking the generations have now split off the tail end of the boomers. That generation (1954-1965) is now designated Generation Jones. I am part of that. The most imporatant figure to that age group is Ronald Reagan. We just didn’t have the numbers that the boomers did. We were also the punks - who despised the hippies and radicals who began infesting the schools at that time. My personal experience in the Midwest mirrored that of my generation. Some of our favorite books are Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago and Nabokov’s Bend Sinister. I have fond memories of listening to a song with the following anti-Soviet lyrics:”If I die in the combat zone - box me up and ship me home. If I die on the Russian Front bury me with some Russian ****.” Although Obama is part of Generation Jones - he seems to have not got the memo.
Thank God I’m Not A Boomer Anymore!