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    • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
      20·
      3 days ago

      It’s actually not the boomers who elected Reagan. It was their parents and the generation that immediately followed them. Boomers, that is the actual baby boom generation (born 1946 to 1955), voted overwhelmingly against Reagan.

      • RuBisCO@slrpnk.net
        81·
        2 days ago

        I disagree.
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomers

        In 1980, it was kinda close, 45v44 (18-21yo) and 44v44 (22-29yo), but I wouldn’t say they were “overwhelmingly against”. By 1984 they seemed quite in favor of him. They had help, no doubt, but they were not largely against; marginally against at most.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election

        • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          This is an incomplete picture. Because it’s from exit polls it only accounts for those who actually voted. It doesn’t take in to account at all those who abstained. And it doesn’t list by generation just by 10-year increments. And generations don’t fall into neat 10-year increments. At that point in time boomers were anywhere from 20 to 35.

          • RuBisCO@slrpnk.net
            31·
            2 days ago

            It doesn’t take in to account at all those who abstained.

            Abstained? You mean helped Reagan win? How’d that strategy work out?

            And it doesn’t list by generation just by 10-year increments.

            False. Behold, arithmetic!

            1980 election
            Age (DOB) Range
            18-21 (1962-1959) =3
            22-29 (1958-1951) =7
            30-44 (1950-1936) =14
            45-59 (1935-1921) =14
            60+ (1920-past)

            1984 election
            Age (DOB) Range
            18-24 (1966-1960) =6
            25-29 (1959-1955) =4
            30-49 (1954-1935) =19
            50-64 (1934-1920) =14
            65+ (1919-past)

            What they lack is a neat cutoff at 1945.

            And generations don’t fall into neat 10-year increments.

            No one is doing that.

            Wikipedia:

            The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th-century baby boom that followed the end of World War II.

            More arithmetic! 1964-1946=18

            At that point in time boomers were anywhere from 20 to 35.

            1945-1960. Sure. Seems a breath away from a neat ten year increment, but sure.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        2 days ago

        Doesn’t stop them from sucking his cadaverific cock nowadays though, frankly if they had come out swinging against him more aggressively there wouldn’t have been nearly as many issues nowadays.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        My parents were boomers and they (and all their boomer friends) fucking hated Ronnie Raygun. It definitely was not all boomers.