Liberals like to play games with statistics and
they like to name things to gain acceptance of their scams. They are like the
statistician who told you the lake had a mean depth of 3 feet, so they could
watch you drown.
I went
looking for a report on US Population by Age and found none that simply listed
this. It would be a simple list of how many people were born in each particular
year from 1900 to 2018. Instead, I got population numbers by grouping with
names that made me suspicious. Liberals are like all other incompetent
criminals, they leave clues.
One
website that didn’t look so “progressive” listed “generations back to 1871-1889
and called them “The New Worlders” commenting on high US immigration needed to
work in the Industrial Revolution. It also added the 1890 – 1908 groups and
called them “The Hard Timers”. This is the group who saw the inventions of the
Industrial Revolution become reality and this was called “The Gay Nineties”. I
think progressives like to claim this name to justify their socialist programs
in 1913.
When I
saw “The Greatest Generation”, born before 1928, I knew that this group fought
in World War I and World War II. This group saw the 1929 stock market crash,
the Great Depression and Dust Bowl droughts of the 1930s.
When I
saw “The Silent Generation” born from 1928 to 1945, the explanation for the
name was that the people in this group were not “activists”, meaning that they were
not rioting “progressives” and were busy working. One website said they were
born from 1925 to 1945. Another website calls them “The Lucky Few” and puts
them from 1929 and 1945. This included the children of the Great Depression
from 1928 to 1940 and the full-employment workforce from 1940 to 1945 that
supported the “war effort” for World War II.
I was
born in 1943. My aunts and uncles were born from 1915 to 1930. They saw the
introduction of the new inventions like the telephone, the radio and the Great
Depression. I was a teenager in the
1950s and 1960s and saw left-wing protests and race riots and the Vietnam War.
I graduated college in 1965, got married and went to work. There wasn’t much
silence.
The “Baby
Boomers” 1945-1964 were so named, because at the end of World War II in 1945,
the US soldiers came home, got married and had kids and bought houses and cars.
Website 1 - Resident population in the United States in 2017, by generation (in millions). The Greatest Generation (born
before1928) 2.57 million. The Silent Generation (born
1928-1945) 25.68 million, span 17 years. The Baby Boomer Generation (born
1946-1964) 73.47 million, span 18 years.
Generation X (born 1965-1980)
65.71 million, span 15 years
The Millennial Generation (born
1981-1996) 71.86 million, span 15 years. Generation Z(born 1997 and later)
86.43 million, span 21 years
While some generations are known by one
name only, such as the Baby Boomers, names for other generations is a matter of
some dispute among experts. Neil Howe and William Strauss define
recent generational cohorts in the U.S. this way:
Website 2 - The Names of Generations in the U.S.
2000
to present: New Silent Generation or Generation Z, span 18 years
1980
to 2000: Millennials or Generation Y,
span 20 years
1965
to 1979: Thirteeners or Generation X, span 14 years
1946
to 1964: Baby Boomers, span 18 years
1925
to 1945: Silent Generation, span 20 years
1900
to 1924: G.I. Generation, span 24 years
Website 2 - The Population Reference
Bureau provides an
alternate listing and chronology of generational names in the United States:
1983
to 2001: New Boomers, span 18 years
1965
to 1982: Generation X, span 17 years
1946
to 1964: Baby Boomers, span 18 years
1929
to 1945: Lucky Few, span 16 years
1909
to 1928: Good Warriors, span 19 years
1890
to 1908: Hard Timers, span, 18 years
1871
to 1889: New Worlders, span 18 years
I tend to look at our
generations from the 1600s as expanding colonists, the 1700s as rugged
individualists, the 1800s as patriots and winners of the Industrial Revolution,
the 1900s as the destroyers of our free market system.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
1 comment:
Though historical factors do shape people, I've always been bemused by the whole idea of demographic generations, especially the way they can be less than 25 or even 20 years.
Relative to large-scale demographics, my brother and I were born in different generations. This is just plain silly.
Relative to my home town's culture, my brother and I were baby-boomers (no TV at home before teen years, hated "Miss Mean's" fifth grade math and cheered for Coach Frye's winning team and so on) but my natural sister belongs to a younger generation (grew up with TV, different teachers, etc.). This at least works as a joke.
Generations make sense in relation to a specific family, but even then there's room for overlap. Some people are older than their aunts/uncles.
And yes, there ought to be a reference site *somewhere* that simply lists how many people were born, and how many were admitted as legal immigrants, for each year.
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