[Tamzee]

The problem, and the understanding I try to reach is the progression leftward, generation by generation. To ignore anyone generation in that analysis is intellectually dishonest.

They why use something as irrelevant as the Baby Boomer years... some were infants and others were almost adults when certain events happened. The next generation in my family began in 1992... while my neighbor's next generation started about ten years earlier.

Why not do so simply decade by decade... and stop assigning blame for events that individuals didn't personally uphold.

[CyberCowboy777]

As I have stated (had you read the entire thread), many boomers (like my dad) were not even old enough to vote until the '70's. And I never assigned individual blame for anything.

But generations are how we look at these things, and if done without personal sensitivity or personalization, they can be very informative.