And, I think we've nailed it with this one.

Any "boom" between 1943 and 1945 should be called the mailman boom.

So boomers are flubros?

TC

Never understood how the "boomer" birth years stretched all the way out to 1964. I'm figuring this based on members of my own combined families. First born of 5 children was 1946, last was 1964. First born was heading off to Marine boot camp when youngest was pissing in diapers. Never occupied the house together at all.

Just my $.02.

I dug I to this once several years ago, wish I'd kept my research.

The Gen X label came about in the early 1970s, if I recall. It slowly morphed, "to the right" as it were, over the years, finally getting some sort of consensus definition only in the 1990s. But, since that was when all this generation labeling really kicked off, that seems to have caused a bit of an irrational stretch of the term "baby boomer." For me, Baby Boomers grew up in the '50s and either fought in or protested the Vietnam war. No kid born in 1960 need apply. Heck, even late 1950s gets problematic.

I distinctly remember a "Generation X" definition from the 1980s that ended with kids born in 1973. That's what had gotten me digging.

And that old Bellamy Brothers song gets stuck in my head every time we have these threads.