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Boomers were the yuppies, not the hippies

The “baby boom” began in 1946 and ended in 1964. I’m a boomer. In fact, I was born in the mathematical center of the baby boom. I was 14 when Woodstock happened.Boomers have been credited (or blamed) for the tumultuous ‘60s of civil rights and hippie fame. But that’s anachronistic. Here’s Louis Man and in his recent New Yorker article “What happened to the yuppie?”“Most of the baby boomers had nothing to do with the civil-rights movement or the...

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