If we all just make up definitions and people like you start reading minds, describing how various public figures internally identify with various generations that they are not of, then it becomes impossible to answer any idiot that starts throwing the word boomer around.
This reminds me of a (young) blogger that I like, posting a picture of the Chicago Seven and starting a thread about them and their boomer ways and Ayers and Dohrn. None of them were boomers and their birth dates went all the way back to 1915.
I’m sorry you are unable to discern the difference between group trends and actual individual behaviors that can be used to perceive group characteristics and individual ones, respectively.
The census bureau bases its classifications on birthrate demographics only, whereas social science and marketing bases their respective groupings on cultural/historical events and trends.
The census bureau doesn’t recognize a “silent generation” at all but rather has early and late cohorts a of Baby Bust I. The Silent Generation is from a social science or marketing generational model.
From either social science or a marketing model it is obvious that Ayers, the Weather Underground and the Black Panther movement are all Boomer generation icons, not Silent Generation regardless of the abitrary demographic decisions of the census bureau which is counting babies, not cultural/historical people trends.
Palin’s birthdate is on the leading edge of the Baby Bust II demographically and the cusp between the Boomer generation and Generation X. Her clear outspoken patriotism, belief in self reliance and America as a force for good in the world clearly separates her from the cynicism of the Boomers and places her firmly as a Reaganite Gen Xer.
You certainly are a blowhard in your allegiance to bureaucratic definitions though! How’s that working for ya? Just wait till they define your medical benefits based on their statistical models of most reasonable benifits for the greatest number at the least cost. Woo hoo!