[Controlling Legal Authority]

THE definitive study on generational issues for the masses, Strauss and Howe, defined the baby boomer generation ending around 1960. As I recall, they said that the BB generation's defining event was Vietnam and that if you were born after 1960 it wasn't the biggest event for you and your cohorts. (They also started the BB generation as starting around 1943, noting that the generation didn't have to have been actually born after the war to be a part of it. More of a mindset than a physical birth date.)
But, as I recall, they tended to support the concept of the latter arriving BBs being more conservative than the early BBs.
So, while the article is correct in noting attitudes of latter BBs, I think they are in error in tying in early Gen Xers to latter BBs. While some overlap is always going to happen between those born on the cusp of a generational change, I think they go too far. Even the conservative, latter born BBs are not the same as the early Gen Xers that followed them.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

But there is a lot of time that I feel I have more in common with some of the gen Xers than the early bbs...but it's not a perfect fit, for sure, in either direction.

[patton]

Yep - I get OFFENDED when people call me a boomer.

Mainly, for economic reasons.

D'ja know, those of us born in the '62 cohort have paid more in SS taxes than all the generations preceeding?

And the actuarial tables say we will collect not one dime.

[FightforFreedomCA]

'64 here and have always loathed being lumped in with what I call the "Locust Generation".

I'm not sure about this Jones moniker, but here's more info on the term Gen X, popularized by Douglas Coupland...

"Although the term Generation X appears back as far as the early 1960s, it was popularized by Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, in which Coupland described the angst of those born between roughly 1960 and 1965, who, originally and incorrectly labeled as part of the baby boom generation, felt no connection to its cultural icons. In Coupland's usage, the X of Generation X referred to the namelessness of a generation that was coming into an awareness of its existence as a separate group but feeling dwarfed and overshadowed by the Boomer generation of which it was ostensibly a part. Afterwards the term stretched to include more people, being appropriated by the generation following the Baby Boomers and being used by marketers throughout the 1990s to denote potential buyers who were in their twenties at some time during the decade." Wikipedia

[GOP_1900AD]

Many of the rock stars of the 60s and 70s were born during, not after, WW2. This makes lots of sense.