You and I are exactly the same age. I also was eleven that year.
The boomers as I see it brought about all these laws putting bike helmets on people’s heads, etc...and get or got offended by everything at one time. Seems like they vote better as they get older. By 1980, many of us became Republicans. We weren’t lifelong rebels.
I was a Reagan Democrat, but supported Nixon I’ve voted for one Democrat ever; Carter. I hated Gerald Ford.
Another interesting thing people don’t notice is that there were two groups, the coastal boomers, represented by Woodstock and Haight Asbury, and the rural boomers, who smoked and drank and fished and shot guns, but grew their hair out. It is still apparent in today’s political divide.
I’m a coastal boomer. Lived in Southern California all my life.