Posted on 04/27/2019 1:30:44 PM PDT by Maceman
On 4/19/2019 I posted a thread asking Freepers which generation they belonged to. The thread was an attempt to satisfy my curiosity regarding the generational breakdown of FR because I have gotten the sense that most of us are rather long in the tooth.
Naturally, as a 20-year member of this esteemed site, my hope is that it will ultimately start attracting younger members in order to continue the critical job of spreading the conservative perspective to new generations.
I received 389 responses to my original post, of which 219 actually provided information regarding respondents' birth year or generation.
Here are the results:
1956...Boom Boom!
Not my experience at all. They embraced change; things changed a ton in their lifetime and they took it in stride. They were responsible for so many of the changes- space program, at the front of technology, the list is really long.
My dad grew up when many small rural communities still relied on horse and buggies, no electricity, no indoor plumbing. He had no part in the space program or technology but cheered it all on and embraced it. He was a ranch kid from the sticks and had no problems dealing with change. My mother and others I knew were the same.
Those I knew were very resilient in nature, they were not afraid to uproot and move cross country for a new life- they are responsible for the wave of population movement in the 50s into Texas, AZ, CA...in their own way pioneers. Moving for jobs, packing up family to start over in a new and far different place. Very much like those that pioneered the west earlier.
Maybe I just saw them different, but they endured and celebrated many changes in their lifetime.
I missed your original posting. I’m Gen X. Maybe you can run updates and cross check/compile new entries like mine and others on today’s post so you get a larger total sample? Have to imagine there are lots more Freepers that have not yet responded.
I do hope younger generations come around more since FR is a good site to visit.
It wasn’t so much about being drafted as it was about being sent to the Viet Nam war. All through the late 40s, 50s and early 60s we had the draft with no such protests. It was just something all us guys had to deal with. We each owed our nation a six year obligation that could be satisfied in any one of several ways. It was just a right of passage to adulthood.....until Nam.....
>>>I do hope younger generations come around more since FR is a good site to visit.<<<
I’m afraid that they are too busy wearing black clothes and masks and getting hit by cars for standing out in traffic.
We are doomed!
Let me look around and see what I can suggest for that time period.
Wrong!
never saw your poll...I’m generation X
The correct term is WAR BABIES!
They spent their lives eating the crap of the Greatest Genwration. They are very much like the current Gen X’ers. They lived the depression. They took little part in WWII, and they fought in the Forgotten War. They were overshadowed in their education by returning vets. They competed with those same vets throughout the fifties.
When they should have been leading, they were overshadowed by Aging GG’s who would not leave the stage (not complaining about Reagan, but he was the hanging on GG.)
When their time came, the boomers pushed them aside as obsolete.
My parents were from the Silent Generation. They were wonderful people, raised in rural New England. But they and their peers were so exhausted by the boomers and their competitive formative years that they never achieved what they should have. They slid into retirement and were in the woodwork—just as they had been their whole lives.
Gen AOC [we're screwed]
I would think that is the exact number of conservatives per group in America. Xers may be higher though.
Gen Xer here
Gen X is only 11 year window?
Thank God you are still with us but your generation is almost gone unfortunately.
Thanks so much for that info. I didn’t realize that...will get those books from my library.
I always thought it was because we were raised with the admonition, "Shut up! Adults are talking"... and there was no arguing or back-talk when we heard that. We lived in awe of what our parents and others older than us had indured and did what we were told...when we were told... and pretty much kept our opinions to ourselves. We did not argue with teachers. If you were sent home by a neighbor or (horror) the police, you went. Corporal punishment was the norm, not a rarity and for the most part, it worked.
Gen X which I’m part of is ignored by the attention seekers of the boomers and millennials. Two generations that have/want to destroy the country. Boomers with their free love and drugs. Millennials with their desire for freebies.
Gen X-er
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