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 prefer to look at it as “spice”...:)
“but was politically indifferent until my mid-20’s.”
I think that’s pretty typical.
As a young teen I was very interested in politics, maybe because I grew up in Washington DC. Then I was just too occupied with other things to pay attention, until my mid 20s.
You’re weird, sir.
——Peppermint Patty
I became very politically aligned as a conservative at a very young age, which I attribute to the military environment I grew up in during the Sixties.
I spent the most divisive years of the Sixties and early Seventies (1967-1972) on military bases overseas in the Pacific, and I fiercely hero-worshiped my father and my friends fathers, and as such, took exception to the Peace Movement who vilified men like my father.
As an 11 year old kid, I was rooting for Nixon, and never looked back after that. I went through my own long-hair days as nearly every kid did during the Seventies, but I was very tuned in.
They are all fairly politically cognizant. Two are traditional conservatives and two are moderate meatheads which may simply be temporary college camouflage that will be shed when they finish.
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.
LOL, that does sound like Peppermint Patty statement!
Mark Rudd was born in '47...BOOMER!
All of the POS SDSers in the Columbia University riots...BOOMERS!
Though the SDS was formed in 1960, it didn't really get off the ground until '67-'68 and then it went completely NUTS.
Give me dates and I’ll do my best to give you a book list. :-)
To me they will always be the Greatest. Survivors of the Depression and World War II. They were tough, hard core tough...I was raised by them; nearly every adult I knew was one when I was growing up.
I thank them every day for teaching me so much, but mostly to keep going- one foot in front of the other, always moving forward when times are tough if need be. Keep getting up and showing up. No whining, others always had it worse. They didn’t raise snowflakes for sure. So much heart, so much wisdom, common sense which they learned from the school of hard knocks. They were/are the Greatest in more ways than one. I miss them so much, too few left.
There was very little if any political talk in my years growing up. Father died young and raised by mother who had her hands full raising four kids alone.
It was after I married.... the family I married into were very involved in politics and any dinner table had talk of politics and business.
I thought it might be; glad I was correct. :-)
BB - 1956
How’s about ... 1942-1945.
The wee cohort born in a scant few years between the GREATEST and the BOOMERS is called WAR BABIES! The "SILENT" thing doesn't make any sense.
Put me down as a long in the tooth geezer ... 1944. ;)
Well, those two are related, so that’s why it worked...:)
Boomer 1956
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