Comments on: Curtain Closing on Boomer Era? http://www.boomercafe.com/2009/01/26/curtain-closing-boomer-era/ The online magazine for baby boomers with active lifestyles Thu, 17 May 2012 01:17:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: DerRen http://www.boomercafe.com/2009/01/26/curtain-closing-boomer-era/#comment-2183 DerRen Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:53:56 +0000 http://www.boomercafe.com/?p=1750#comment-2183 I'm not sure what you mean when you say someone is "technically" a Boomer. I guess you mean that person is part of the post-WWII demographic boom in births. But that is a wholly different thing then cultural generations, which of course have no technical definitions. The census bureau, nor any other 'official' or 'technical' person or organization, decide the birth year parameters of generations. These are the subjective opinions of experts like sociologists. There were certainly two seperate genetaions born during the approximately 20 year post-was demographic baby boom. As many nationally influential voices have repeatedly noted, Obama is part of Generation Jones, born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Generation X. Google Generation Jones, and you'll see it’s gotten a lot of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (New York Times, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) are specifically referring to Obama, born in 1961, as part of Generation Jones. Great op-ed on exactly this topic in today's USA TODAY: http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/01/stuck-in-the-mi.html I’m not sure what you mean when you say someone is “technically” a Boomer. I guess you mean that person is part of the post-WWII demographic boom in births. But that is a wholly different thing then cultural generations, which of course have no technical definitions. The census bureau, nor any other ‘official’ or ‘technical’ person or organization, decide the birth year parameters of generations. These are the subjective opinions of experts like sociologists.

There were certainly two seperate genetaions born during the approximately 20 year post-was demographic baby boom.

As many nationally influential voices have repeatedly noted, Obama is part of Generation Jones, born 1954-1965, between the Boomers and Generation X. Google Generation Jones, and you’ll see it’s gotten a lot of media attention, and many top commentators from many top publications and networks (New York Times, Time magazine, NBC, Newsweek, ABC, etc.) are specifically referring to Obama, born in 1961, as part of Generation Jones.

Great op-ed on exactly this topic in today’s USA TODAY:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/01/stuck-in-the-mi.html

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