Philip Bump: While we talk about the boom as encompassing 1946 to 1964, demographers note that it really began mid-1946 and ended mid-1964. Harris, born in Oct 1964, can therefore fairly be described as Gen X.

While we talk about the boom as encompassing 1946 to 1964, demographers note that it really began mid-1946 and ended mid-1964. Harris, born in Oct 1964, can therefore fairly be described as Gen X.

Kamala Harris is technically a boomer but her levels of earnest cringe would make her the nation's first millennial president in spirit

I am ever so slightly older than Harris and identify as Gen X, so she must be too.

It's not like you wrote a book about it or anything.

The worst part is that I read Bump's book and still got it wrong

Well, "the boom" isn't the same as the generational identifier! So saying "1964 equals Baby Boom" is right in the vernacular. She just wasn't born in the actual boom after which the generation is named. I was just trying to help you save face / share a factoid.

"save face" is a funny way to say you have shamed me in a way that I will never properly recover from

Phil out here cold-blooded like Gator.

Well technically ritual suicide is always an option assuming you live in a sufficiently honor-based social context

A difference of a few months is exactly the sort of semantic argument that my Silent Generation father would have loved. It would have turned into at least an hour long conversation at some holiday gathering.

She relates to both anyhow, if we just ask her.

Your book may cover this but, demographers notwithstanding, it’s hard to consider anyone who was still a teenager when MTV existed a Baby Boomer. Culturally, the children of ‘61-‘64 were the advance guard of Gen-X.

one of my most closely held beliefs is that anyone too young to remember Kennedy being shot can't be a True Boomer

Yeah we're generation Jones but it's never going to catch on.

Thank you for this. I am an October 64 baby and have NEVER felt like a boomer. Now I have proof.

Ok boomer

You're just cringe 🙄

We Gen Xers will take any representation we can get

What we know for certain, is she's a cop.

From Times Square (V-J Day) to Dealey Plaza, delayed by about 9 months.

I’ve heard Baby Boom officially “ended” June 30, 2024 so as of Sunday, all boomers are at least 60 years old.

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