tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post1072109824880360943..comments2023-09-13T09:59:36.013+01:00Comments on snowflake5: Generational Shiftssnowflake5http://www.blogger.com/profile/14700425293614182769noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-68167867909229047182008-02-06T16:43:00.000+00:002008-02-06T16:43:00.000+00:00sociologist - the 60's and 70's were a time of ove...sociologist - the 60's and 70's were a time of overlap between generations. The boomer generation was born in between 1946 and 1960. In 1968, only Boomers born between 1946 and 1950 were over 18 and in play. Enough to have a marginal effect and swing an election to Nixon in 1968, but not yet enough to undo what the civic generation had put in place. That had to wait till Reagan and the 1980's, snowflake5https://www.blogger.com/profile/14700425293614182769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29618513.post-47500944992981377442008-02-06T10:24:00.000+00:002008-02-06T10:24:00.000+00:00Hmmm, I'm very sceptical about the claims of this ...Hmmm, I'm very sceptical about the claims of this article, seeing as it's based not on concrete social analysis of US populations but rather the broad brush strokes of shoe horning arbitrary categories into arbitrary historical periods. How, for example, would such a framework account for "anomolous" historical processes within the alternating generational cycle? How to explain the progressive Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com