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:
I hadn’t heard of Silent Generation before today, either.
I’d say we were characterized by Hula Hoops, telling each other we’d go to Cuba to fight for Castro (before he was revealed as a Communist), the birth of rock and roll, and seeing a military stint as part of growing up.
I’m from the future.
There’s entrenched radicalism in colleges and government but those aren’t students. Those are adults.
You don’t have anything like the massive anti-war rallies of the 1960s because there aren’t any college students getting drafted and sent off to war. Only those who volunteer. The huge antiwar movement disappeared along with the draft. Not a coincidence.
I thought I recognized you.
I passed you on the way in.
How popular would you say following politics is among your Gen X friends? Are you the rare bird or is it a pretty common interest?
“In short, Gen-Jonesers jonesed for a better life. They longed for the prosperous days of freedom their elder siblings enjoyed; days before the collapse of American industries.”
Thanks for the link, great read!
Yep...... War Babies I would say 1935-1945 half a generation or so
I made a mistake before. Trump is 72, 1946 so he is in fact a boomer.
After the war there was a boom in babies
Gen-X
The “greatest” generations consist of those born between 1600 and 1940...IMHO...
Boomer here
I’m equating the ‘60s draft with Vietnam since that’s what the fear was, as you correctly point out.
If you went back early enough in the ‘50s there was the even more violent Korean War. But unlike Vietnam the fighting ended sooner, just a 3 year span.
I think the way that Vietnam dragged on with no end in sight and no apparent plan to win it is what did so much to sour the public against it. Throw in a press corps that often acted as a sounding board for Hanoi’s propaganda and the situation got even worse.
“if the last 2 are X, Y, and Z, what does the next generation after that get called?”
If the country holds its present trajectory, Generation F’d.
Put me down as Gen X.
Boomer here also.
My dad was Greatest Generation, my mother was your Silent...maybe that clouds my thoughts, she was not a go along to get along though for sure. They were happily married for over 50 years but on his deathbed he told us he had never won a fight with our mother. I think of others in my family that were Silent though and still don’t see it.
“Or maybe it’s a personality factor. The two meatheads are more approval seeking, have higher social insecurity neediness traits than the two conservative ones. They’d have a fit if they ever read this, but it’s true.”
I was just thinking about how amused I am when parents analyze their kids like they are lab rats. No one can wield a scalpel like an observant parent. Am I wrong to laugh?
I didn’t see the original survey.
I’m solidly a baby boomer, born in 1947.
1946 marks the first year of the ‘Boomers, and Trump is part of that leading edge.
You’re welcome and I swear I didn’t notice your name when I posted that. :D
/but dang, that’s some wicked synchronicity
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