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The Long Baby Boomer Reign Isn’t Ending Just Yet
No, generations don’t determine everything. But one especially big generation continues to dominate U.S. politics.
It’s a boomer thing.
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Generations are an overused framework for understanding why people think and act the way they do. As psychology professors David P. Costanza of George Washington University and Lisa M. Finkelstein of Northern Illinois University put it in a 2015 survey article:
Still, when the U.S. Census Bureau comes out with new estimates of the country’s population by age, as it did this month, it’s hard to resist thinking in terms of generations at least a little.