Millennials Now Outnumber Baby Boomers

[bravenak]

Americans born between 1982 and 2000, known as millennials, now comprise one quarter of the country's population. At 83.1 million, millennials outnumber the 75.4 million baby boomers.


http://www.npr.org/2015/06/25/417349199/millenials-now-out-number-baby-boomers-census-bureau-says

[Arugula Latte]

1. Now who's the bulge in the snake, eh Boomers?

[bravenak]

2. Maybe now people will notice we exist.

Hopefully.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Hope so. I'm actually an old Gen Xer, but I do have Millennial kids.

Millennials are great. I like them much better than my generation (we were the Reagan Youth -- yuck).

[bravenak]

4. My mom is a young boomer and I'm an old millennial.

My mom says the same thing about us. She considers herself a genxer and takes full credit for video games and extreme sports. Reagan youth, .
That had to suck.

[Arugula Latte]

5. It did. I started high school in 1980 and suddenly everything turned

super conservative, preppy, and rah rah Reagan. It felt like the 70s ended and everything changed overnight.

[bravenak]

7. I just remember Michael J Fox in family ties.

Him and Carlton is what I think of as Young Reagan Republicans. I'm glad I came up in the 90s. That was kinda fun.

[Arugula Latte]

24. There were so many Alex Keatons at my high school.

It was a pretty wealthy school (not my family, though). There was a mock vote and Reagan got about 3/4s of the vote.

[Warpy]

6. Boomers already did and said thank gawd the Xers and Yers would be bracketed

by two generations that didn't buy into the Reagan myth and who know that trickle down is the biggest con job ever perpetrated on this country.

Millennials are great. Boomers just thought they'd never get here.

[bravenak]

8. Glad we finally got here!

[jeff47]

28. The political alignment doesn't line up neatly with the "generation" alignment.

Older Boomers tend to be liberal.
Younger Boomers tend to be conservative.
Older GenX tends to be conservative.
Younger GenX tends to be liberal.

The Republican base is mostly made up of younger Boomers and older GenX at the moment.

[brer cat]

22. I notice.

I am glad and grateful to pass on the baton, bravenak. We boomers are still active, and hold a lot of power in this country, but we need new voices with new perspectives and new ideas.

[bravenak]

39. thank you!

[jeff47]

29. I hope so. Ignoring GenX has been costly in so many ways. (nt)

[bravenak]

30. They can't keep ignoring all of us forever. Genx plus millennials equal power, imo.

[jeff47]

32. That's why I have hope we will finally get some attention.

I just hope 20 years of ignoring hasn't turned too many of my generation off forever.

[bravenak]

34. I hope so too.

I know I get turned off after elections where my generation gets blamed for losing. They never consider the fact that we don't want the policies they push.

[davidpdx]

9. Not surprising

The baby boomer generation is starting to die off (the oldest would be in their late 60's now) and their numbers will start to drop significantly over the coming years.

[bravenak]

10. I agree, it was expected.

[demigoddess]

13. get a clue the boomer generation is from 1946-1961

that makes the younger boomers in their mid fifties. I am in the leading edge of the boomers and my mother is still alive and my father in law, born in early 1900s died just a few years ago. I know relatives born pre WWII, (in the 30s) are still alive. yeah, we are all just going to die off any day now.

[Lars39]

17. Actually, Boomers are 1946-1964.

[davidpdx]

41. Why don't you try being polite or were you just not taught that

I was guessing at 48' because that's when both of my parents were born, but didn't look it up. I hope the next time you make a mistake someone tells you to get a clue.

[Juicy_Bellows]

14. That's a kind of shitty thing to say.

While it is true in most respects - no one wants to hear that they are "dying off". You might want to rethink that just a bit - maybe not, what the fuck do I know? I just think it a touch crude.

[davidpdx]

42. It is in fact true, whether it be crude or not

My father is a baby boomer and already gone. I certainly didn't wish anyone dead.

[nxylas]

11. But do they vote?

And if they do, how much longer will the Republicans allow this state of affairs to continue?

[bravenak]

15. I do.

[newfie11]

19. I'm a boomer born 1947

Hell yes I vote! Anyone around during Vietnam knows what voting can or can't do.
All my boomer friends also vote.

Now my kids, born in the 70s, never bother to vote even with my pleading.

The lack of voting in this country isn't just boomers!

[SoCalDem]

21. Aaah. yes Vietnam...

If the draft had not ended, we would be a much more liberal country.. As I type this. ,my eldest son and his wife are vacationing in Vietnam.. Young me would have never believed such a thing could happen..

Time does strange things..

In the early 70's , when I was a travel consultant, one of the biggest sellers in our agency was a "fly/Drive vacation" in the Holy Land... People would fly into Beirut, pick up a car and drop it off in Cairo when they flew home.. Two or three weeks wandering around all the countries that are totally berserk these days...

[pinboy3niner]

27. I fought in Vietnam and later went back three times as a tourist

I love the country and the people. Travel agents were advising to see it while it still qualified as an "adventure destination" because it was developing so fast.

[nxylas]

23. I was actually talking about millennials

I know that boomers vote. That was the reason for my question. It is irrelevant politically if one generation outnumbers another if they stay home on polling day because "they're all the same".

[NutmegYankee]

12. It's annoying how the articles keep redefining the start date

In some articles, I'm a millennial, in others I'm not.

I'm certainly not a gen X.

[bravenak]

16. Yeah, I noticed.

I take it back to 79-78 myself as a start date. I am certainly not a genxer, but I was born in 81. I've accepted that they are wrong.

[Betty Karlson]

18. When born around the cut-off date,

it may be relevant to see where your siblings are categorised. With gen X siblings, being born in the early eighties could still make you a late gen X baby. If on the other hand all your siblings are younger - and undeniably Millennial - you are probablyan early Millennial.

[Terra Alta]

26. yeah, I was born in 1981

and consider myself a Millennial.

I don't really identify with Gen X.

[Quayblue]

40. I can see this

I was born in 78 and my nieces and nephews were born from 86 to 92. They keep me on my toes, to say the least.

[jeff47]

31. Named generations are a marketing concept anyway

So don't worry too much about the start date.

[Jefferson23]

20. Yep!

[bravenak]

25. Yay!

[Blue_In_AK]

33. No question that I'm an old boomer

(born in 1946), and I'm more than happy to pass the baton and stop taking the blame for everything bad that's happened to the country - never mind that I've always been a radical liberal.

[pinboy3niner]

35. No good deed goes unpunished

[bravenak]

36. I don't blame you. I blame rich people.

But, yeah, it's time for us to take responsibility for our future. I think older boomers are more in line with millennials as far as politics are concerned. Probably why I support Bernie more than the other candidates, our politics line up almost perfectly. 96 percent!

[Blue_In_AK]

37. 96% for me, too.

[bravenak]

38. Awesome!!nt