Gen-Reagan.... excellent. How cool it would be if that actually replaced the insipid "Gen-X" label.
I've often thought how lucky I am to have "come of age" during Reagan's presidency. I was 13 in 1980 and just beginning to have an understanding about politics, the world, etc. When I think of the kids who turned 13 in 1992, and think of them looking back at the butthead prez who formed their earliest political ideals and consciousness, I wince. How sad, that they will never really have a connection to the presidency -- to the country -- the way we did through Ronald Reagan. The sad thing is, it took us little more than a decade to go from such greatness in office to such trash. How did that happen?
The short answer: The end of the Cold War -- brought about, in large part, by President Reagan -- made everyone feel safe and that foreign affairs and defense were passé and that domestic issues (education, prescription drugs for old people, welfare, etc.) were more important.
I remember talking with a knee-jerk leftist co-worker back in July or August 2001. He loudly proclaimed that since the Cold War was over, we should cut the military and military budget down to almost nothing and spend it all on free health coverage and other socialist, income redistribution projects -- and called me a right-wing nut for believing that just because one known threat was gone, there were likely many more out there. Of course, he spent the month or so after 9/11 avoiding me.
I plan on using this label from now on, maybe it'll catch!! Has so much more meaning and substance than "X" - and we did grow up with meaning and substance in a great president.