Posted on 11/06/2006 7:50:34 PM PST by politico 2006
...there's a voting cohort between Generation Xers and boomers that bears watching. They're the not-so-young of Generation Jones. If they're not "the lost generation" they're invisible to most of our culture commentators. The Joneses, who were born between 1954 and 1965, are usually included in the boomer cohort, but Jonathan Pontell, a pop culture consultant who coined the name, says that's a mistake. He thinks the Jonesers may be crucial in next week's congressional elections. "Coming of age politically in the late 1970s and early 1980s," he says, "Jonesers were the much discussed 'ReaganYouth,' and is the most conservative U.S. generation by a considerable margin." He credits Jonesers, particularly the women, with tipping the election for George W. in the swing states two years ago when they comprised approximately a quarter of the electorate. They are disproportionately represented among theme voters, such as NASCAR enthusiasts, Office Park Dads and Soccer-Security-Mortgage Moms. They cluster around issues of "moral values," and were polled as pulling away from conservative candidates after the Foley scandal. Now the latest polls show that they have conspicuously returned to the Republican base (apologies to Peggy Noonan). What makes them different from the boomers is that during their formative years, while their older brothers and sisters were indulging the hedonistic pleasures of Woodstock, they were at home watching the Brady Bunch and supping on mashed potatoes with both parents at the dinner table. They were not traumatized by the Kennedy assassination, but were terrified by Jimmy Carter's Iranian hostage crisis. They weren't interested in kicking Richard Nixon around, but were grateful to Ronald Reagan for restoring America's strength in the world... Next week we're likely to learn which candidates kept up with the Joneses. Copyright © 2006 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.
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I'm a Joneser!
Okay, well this "Gen. Jones" did their duty and voted already straight Repub. in Ohio.
'62 was a VERY good year.
;-)
I have always hated being lumped in with the long-haired, dope smoking, maggot infested hippies that made up too many of the damm "boomers".
Call me Mr. Jones. I voted straight R in my first national election - 1980. Reagan is my political hero.
Born on date: 1-1-61
Especially we later Jonesers (I was born in '62) want to have nothing to do with 1960s radicalism. We have far more in common with Xers than with Boomers, but are even more politically conservative than the Xers themselves (I think its backlash against our "big brothers / sisters" and innate resentment against those who took the best jobs throughout our careers).
RE: "some because there were simply not enough positions left in the make-believe world of academia, media, government and law. A lot of us have grown real tired of supporting the lifestyles of those who proceeded us into the world by 10 years or less and managed to worm their way into positions by default that we've had to earn through competition..."
Cha-ching! 100% correct ...
My "retirement" will consist of being a landlord to the less economically capable amongst the Boomers' kids ... call me "Ole Slummy" - LOL!
I've got a basketball Jonesssssss
I've got a basketball Jonesssssss
I've got a basketball Jones Oh Baby, wooo oooh ooooh
Many of the rock stars of the 60s and 70s were born during, not after, WW2. This makes lots of sense.
Carolyn
Maybe we'll come to be labelled the Tea Party Generation, assuming we get sick enough of being everyones' mules.
We might, at that.
Happy Days, Welcome Back Kotter, Mork and Mindy .... LOL!!!!
Hey! I'm a Joneser! Right in the middle of the pack! 1960 is my year!!
The Yers (kids of earlier, hippyish Boomers) were groomed by the parents to be radicals. I'd say about 60 percent of them are, the rest rebel against their parents and have more in common with Xers and Jonesers.
Just found out the other day, that I too am a Jones.
1960, glad to be off the boomer list.
This would be me versus the "big kids" on my street - didn't have any older siblings since my own folks were on the young end of the Silent Generation (born just before WW2).
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Darn, I'm still a baby boomer just like Rush. I like the new group name though.
I'm a Jones generation voter, who cast my first vote for Richard M Nixon.
Finally, there's realization that we don't have all that much in common with the smelly hippie types making fools of themselves in Viet Nam era protests.
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