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President Biden is the First President Elected From The Silent Generation (self.mildlyinteresting)

submitted 6 months ago by ccunning to c/mildlyinteresting

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This is kinda blowing my mind right now.

I know generation bounds can be inconsistent, but I’m using this as the guideline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_social_generations

That puts Clinton, W, Obama, and Trump all as Baby Boomers and Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and HW all as Greatest Generation.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is an entirely too rigid definition of generation. Biden was born in 1942. Clinton, W, and Trump were all born in 1946.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

Your fact that those three were all born the same year is what I'm finding interesting.

[–] ccunning 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Generational boundaries are all made up anyway. A lot of people put Obama in Gen X being born in 1961, while the linked graph steadfastly places anyone before 1965 as a Boomer.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Speculater 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or all the "elder millennials" that are actually Gen X, like bro, 1980 is not a millennial. You were 20 when Y2K happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was 16 when y2k happened. I'm definitely a Millenial.

[–] Speculater 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Correct. If you couldn't legally vote when Y2K happened and thought the Power Rangers were cool and not a kids show, you're a millennial.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wanted to be the White Ranger so bad.

[–] Speculater 2 points 6 months ago

Green ranger for me, but yes. :-D