Since I was a higher education practitioner, "generations" and "birth order" were some of the groups we studied, among other factors like race, sexuality, gender, religion, etc. Obviously, people aren't going to be 'cookie cutter' images of certain generations and the labelling is really only good for making educated guesses about behavior and possible outcomes in relevant situations. I think the reason we see debate on the years of generations is because different sociologists and others have different markers and rationale for their date choices.
It is interesting how many people are incorrectly going solely after Millennials forgetting that the oldest of that group are 36, when they need to also include Gen-Z. The least likely to turnout for midterms are 18-29 year olds, and that now spans two generational groups. But trends show us younger people are less likely to vote than those older, especially in mid-term elections, like all other groups. This has been the case for years.
So, if you look at the above graph, I don't think it is too fair to "go after" or make assumptions about younger people because of their generational group, but rather look at the 30 year trend and we can see, Baby Boomers (Builder a sub-group someone else mentioned) and Gen-X followed the same patterns we are seeing with Gen-Y and Gen-Z.
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