What was defined before 1980 was the "Increased Rate Above Pre-World II Levels over the Length of Time that it Took the Pill to Knock Down the Birth Rate to pre-World War II, Depression Era Levels". AKA: The Baby Boom
Not "The Baby Boom GENERATION".
Simply "The Baby Boom".
It was Landon Jones that decided to pair up an identifiable cultural cohort (a cultural phenomenon) with a sustained birth rate spike (a biological phenomenon).
Show me any reference prior to 1980 that speaks of "The Baby Boom GENERATION".
There are none.
When The Who sang, "Talkin' 'bout my generation" in the 1960's, they were talkin' about their cultural cohort.
To us, the next cultural cohort, The Who were not "our generation" .... They were "grown ups".
It tool Landon Jones' pop culture book to falsely classify The Who's cultural cohort as anybody born during a time of birth rates above that of Depression Era America.
You post a thread about boomers, and after awhile you want to announce that there is no such thing as a boomer, that generation does not exist.
What was this thread supposed to be about? and what do you call the generation born 1925 to 1945?