I fall into that age range, and never felt like a Boomer or a Gen Xer. This is the first I’ve seen of Gen Jones, I’ll be reading those links shortly. Thanks.
The reality is that no one feels like a boomer, what do you think a member of the silent generation feels like, or a generation Y, or generation X, or the lost generation?
Even boomers that voted for Republican in 1972 are usually surprised to find out that most of them did, by a solid margin 52% to 46% for Democrat, or that boomers are the last great warrior generation, enlisting by the many millions.
That is because some people insist on using the extremely arbitrary chronological criteria set forth in a particular pop culture book published in 1980 to define our common cultural cohort.
See my Post 127 that describes the scientific study of U.S. cultural cohorts by Schuman and Scott.
The work of Schuman and Scott studied which birth years shared common cultural characteristics in order to establish cultural cohorts with scientific validity.
Landon Jones' pop culture book described the cultural characteristics of an obvious cultural cohort already in existance and then, without any scientific rhyme or reason whatsoever, arbitrarilly chose dates from Government statistics meant to track number of births per 1,000 population to define who belonged to that cultural cohort.