The Greatest Generation (aka GI Generation) were the 1910s-early 1920s births. Most of them died off by the early 2010s.
Boomers are 59-77 years old right now. So your area is likely Boomer retirees with some remnant of the Silent Generation (late 1920s-1945) in there.
The median age of a US House member in January 2023 was 57.9, which made the median U.S. House rep a borderline Boomer/Gen X'er. The median age of a US Senator is 65.3 years old as of January 2023, which is squarely in the Boomer range.
The median age of voting House lawmakers is 57.9 years, while the new Senate’s median age is 65.3 years.
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In business, a lot of Boomers have retired in the last 10 years, so business leaders are trending more Gen X than Boomers now. Business leaders tend to be younger than US legislators.
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When an earlier Boomer finished high school between 1965-1975, a college education was less necessary and less commonly obtained. For those who finished high school between 1965-1975, they could more easily mold a career without a college education. By the time the Millennials started to graduate high school around 2000, the path for a typical high school graduate was some McJob at McDonald's or Walmart. Boomers had the option of having a viable life without a college degree or getting ahead with inexpensive degrees. For Millennials or Gen Z, the options are more of college, McJob, or maybe a useful trade certification. Parents and high schools in general have done a poor job promoting trade school paths and a lot of this falls on crap Boomer parenting.
Fewer Boomers have bachelor's degrees or higher as compared to Gen X, Millennials, and likely Gen Z in a few years.
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Boomers liked liberalism and feminism in the 1960s-1970s because male Boomers thought that they'd get their penises wet more often. Boomers were the first larger generation to benefit from this idea. These ideas of liberalism and feminism have more origins in the Silent Generation. The Silent Generation was born during the 1930s and early 1940s. During the 1930s, people didn't want to have kids because they couldn't afford to have kids then. There were fewer female birth control methods then. The diaphragm was popular for females in those days and condoms for males did exist.
The earliest beneficiaries of the birth control pill being introduced in 1960 were Silent Generation young adults. Most Boomers were too young to be on birth control pills until at least the late 1960s and it wasn't until the 1970s that the widest grouping of Boomer females started to use birth control pills.
In the earlier days of feminism and liberalism of the 1960-1974 era, late Silent Generation and Boomers wanted to have their fun for a few years of sex. Instead of getting married at 18-19, they wanted to get married at 22-23. And at 22-23, they wanted a few more years of childless couple fun times before kids.
The consequences of liberal, feminism, birth control, etc. wouldn't really be felt in the sexual marketplace until the later generations. The 50th percentile Boomer guy got 1-2 more sexual partners before marrying some 50th percentile Boomer woman whereas the 50th percentile Millennial guy got virtually ignored by the 50th percentile Millennial female.
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The success of most Millennials will depend upon how much money their Boomer parents leave them.