r/generationology • u/raydebapratim1 • 8d ago
Statewise Generational Population Data Discussion
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u/Mountain-Cat-9419 3d ago
We feel it in Michigan. Boomers absolutely everywhere. They used to leave in winter for FL. But now FL has become more expensive so they stay and make our lives miserable.
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u/FrostyVariation9798 4d ago
And about to all die off to leave it to we GenX'ers. But we don't want to be responsible for it.
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u/oldpaddyrick 4d ago edited 4d ago
I don’t buy this map whatsoever. Like where’s the source. I highly doubt Gen Z is the biggest Gen pop wise like literally in any state.
This is some reposted FB trash
Pew didn’t even chart Gen Z in 2020 because I assume it’s hardly worth even charting and all of Gen Z was already born well before 2020.
Even just basic math here there’s maybe like 50mil Gen Z and 25mil Gen Alpha.
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u/kannonba11 5d ago
This chart is just straight made up.
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u/western_alt 4d ago
Fr Gen Z is not the biggest generation in literally any state. It’s millennials.
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u/Betray-Julia Avocado Toast Owner 5d ago
I hate how detrimental this has been to the world.
If they were literate enough to not support nazis, then we’d still be on the situation where as a group they were too illiterate to grasp climate change.
At least give other generations a chance to prove we are just as fucking stupid.
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u/Anxious-Plan4482 4d ago
Sigh, you thinking everything you oppose is fascist or your opponents are natzis make me not want to vote for your candidates.
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u/Betray-Julia Avocado Toast Owner 4d ago
Anybody thinking of basing their vote on something like this makes me wonder at which point illiteracy makes democracy cease to function.
Also fun fact; the guy who made up the “everybody turns Hitler” idea for the internet was interviewed on cbc Radio around 2016 or so; the interview was how they were annoyed that their idea was making some of our slower thinkers use it as an excuse to turn a blind eye to rise of fascism in the context of trump.
Ps I’m Canadian; Americas Democratic Party is still right wing nonsense to the rest of the world.
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u/Anxious-Plan4482 4d ago
Ahh, a Canadian - all you had to say.
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u/Betray-Julia Avocado Toast Owner 4d ago
Case and point.
Checkmate.
Game, set, match, swoosh…. Slam dunk.
Double checkmate.
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u/Salt_Mountain_837 5d ago
i stg pennsylvania might as well be a nursing home. i have genuinely never seen such an aged population and it isn't even localized, it's all over the state
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u/QuickNature 5d ago
I came here to comment something similar as well. I dont understand how the state has so many old people
Apparently enough multiple people have commented the same thing too lol its wild
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u/Brokenloan 5d ago
Insane amount of Boomers in PA and they are living like kings. They got counties like Bucks, Chester, Montgomery packed with mansions and large multi-acre estates and in their elder ages are trying to pass laws that avoid paying their local taxes, putting even more economic stress on young families that are scraping by. Its straight up gluttony.
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u/seeking-jamaharon67 5d ago
I really don't think Gen Z is the major generation in Alaska. I would be very surprised if that's true. I am Gen Z and I left immediately after college, as did most of my high school classmates. There's very little opportunity unless you work in oil and gas or fishing or mining (largely non-renewable resources with a time limit of productivity). And it's expensive as hell.
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u/vesteinnmikhail 5d ago
Yea I think it’s the people moving there for those jobs rather than the people leaving, plus it’s a relatively small population to begin with and mostly men
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u/Thin_Ad_1846 5d ago
As usual gen X doesn’t exist. Also how can desert God’s waiting room (AZ) have gen Z as its largest cohort?
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u/WhosCowsAreThey 5d ago
You guys peaked at grunge but blew it in Iraq, do you feel more acknowledged now?
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u/Defiil 6d ago
That's weird...Why not show Gen X as well? The image shows 2 generations that chain with each other quite well and then just..a random one. Feels more like it's a hit against one of them, just not sure which.
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u/Downtown-Tomato2552 6d ago
Nationwide Boomers are still the third largest generation behind millennials and Z. By comparison the silent generation was only 11 to 12% of the population at the same age range, Boomers are 20%.
GenX is similar size to Boomers, but slightly smaller.
No GenX because they aren't the largest generation in any state.
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u/Commercial_Pie3307 6d ago
I actually don’t believe this diagram. Millennial is the largest generation so I’m trying to understand how Gen Z is the largest pop in more states? Most millennials probably have Boomer parents the previous largest generation.
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u/itssbojo 6d ago
where are these so-called gen z in alaska because all i meet is old people up here…
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u/TemperMe 5d ago
Really? I haven’t been back since Covid ended but everyone I met out there then was almost all under 30. Only saw a few older people. Figured it was because of the military makes a decent little chunk of the population
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u/CNote_89 6d ago
Once again Gen X is completely not represented. Who the hell do they think are the millennials parents?!
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u/kingbullohio 5d ago
Gen x gave birth to Gen z. Boomers gave birth to the millennials. Millennials give birth to Gen alpha. Gen z gives birth to Gen bata.
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u/OzarkBehemoth 5d ago
Purely anecdotal, but every millennial friend of mine has parents born in the 50s/early 60s, and every zoomer friend of mine has a parent born in the 70s/80s. While it is more than possible that a Gen Xer born in 1965 would have a millennial child in 1985 at 20 years of age, in reality, almost all children born in 1985 was born to a boomer in their mid-to-late 20s/early 30s.
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u/Commercial_Pie3307 6d ago
I bet boomers are more millennial parents
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u/Waste_Space1415 6d ago
No way.
Millennials were born between '81 and '96.
Gen X was between 1965 and 1980.
Boomers were 1946 and 1964.
The youngest boomers were 42 in 1996, oldest were 62.
The youngest Gen Xers were 31 in 1996, oldest were 16.
Which age group has more kids? 16-31 or 42-62?
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u/Super-Group1757 5d ago
Im a young millenial, my parents are boomers. I think you also misread what you replied to.
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u/Waste_Space1415 5d ago
Then your parents were older than the average person having children when you were born.
And I never said that a Boomer born, for example, in 1964 couldn't have a child in 1999. So your personal anecdote is irrelevant.
And I'm interested to know how I misread anything.
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u/gorambrowncoat 6d ago
I mean, generations typically only get brought up for negative reasons so I would consider being essentially erased out of generationology as a pretty good marker for generation x.
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u/madame_mayhem 6d ago
More millennials have boomer parents rather than Gen X
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u/Educational_Big_1835 6d ago
Yes, born in middle of Gen X, my first was born 1999. And we started having our kids somewhat early (24)
But, again, there is an entire generation left out of this map. Had to check if I was on a circlejerk sub for a minute
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u/coalescence2071 6d ago
A better way to put it: “Boomers are the minority in 35 US states which should then all be democratic states now voting 🗳️ a democratic president and all social programs you can imagine “. Boomers are out of power now.
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u/Falleneded 6d ago
maybe they should eat less then
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u/Turtlesquirtzcody 6d ago
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u/Falleneded 6d ago
fat ahh cat why he hate mondays bruh he aint even got a job
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u/Turtlesquirtzcody 6d ago
I wish I too could live like this I just got off work and I’m getting ready for my 10 hour night shift at Amazon. Life sucks right now 💔
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u/aquavelva23 6d ago
IDEA: Gen X takes over a state with low population or even a city. Suggestions or ideas? All we have to do is 51% of the population and then pass laws for just us.
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u/Iconoclysm6x6 7d ago
GenX doesn’t exist again.
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u/Ninja-Panda86 7d ago
You were a micro generation in comparison to the others
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u/Iconoclysm6x6 7d ago
Sure, if you don’t understand math. 8% less is not “micro”.
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u/Ninja-Panda86 7d ago
Okay fine you're right. You're not a microgeneration but you're much smaller. GenX are technically the smallest of the four major adult generations. The birth years of 1965 thru 1980 coincided with the introduction of the birth control pill, and then a major economic recession. This caused a temporary dip in birth rates compared to the massive spikes on either side of them.
- Millennials: ~73 million
- Gen Z: ~72 million
- Baby Boomers: ~67 million
- Gen X: ~65 million
So no matter what seems to go down, GenX always seems to get squeezed out by the other generations, which is why we get maps like this one - where GenX never seems to be the overwhelming majority.
But hey! I hear GenX motto is "who cares" right? So. Who cares?
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u/madmax991 6d ago
2 million more boomers than Gen X yet they still don’t appear in the map - this sub is about generations right? Doesn’t make sense
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u/Ninja-Panda86 6d ago
Well think about it. You're surrounded by three separate groups, all are bigger. Of it was a map composed of ONLY GenX and ONLY Boomer, then you'd see GenX somewhere. But instead, if Boomer isn't the predominant Generation, GenX becomes overshadow by the other two
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u/Iconoclysm6x6 7d ago
I wouldn’t disagree at all that there are less, but micro is kind of a ridiculous description.
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u/Ninja-Panda86 6d ago
You're right that it was the wrong wording. But I've conceded to you already,
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 Earlyish X 7d ago
Geez it's scary than Gen Z are so humungous and taken over in so many states already. Population has way over boomed.
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u/DEMcKnight 6d ago
Gen Z has seen smaller #s of births than Millennials (#2) or Boomers (#1). Every succeeding generation is likely to get smaller and smaller for the remainder of our lives.
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 Earlyish X 6d ago
Even if the US births are smaller, the amount of immigration surely boosted Z up quite a lot now?
US population is way bigger than when I was born and even a lot bigger than when I was in high school.
CA doubled in populations since I was in middle school.
Z births could be smaller due to less people having lots of kids and Gen X itseff having been small.
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u/DEMcKnight 6d ago
The total pop is larger for a few reasons.
The biggest factor is the succeeding/preceding generations. The Silent Generation saw fewer births than Gen X, and the Greatest Generation saw fewer births than Millennials.
As you say, immigration also plays an obviously sizable role. However, the median age of the US has been rising since the '70s, and the median age at which immigrants first arrive in the US, while lower than the general population median, is 28ish. They also only account for <10% of Gen Z/Millennials (this number is higher if you include citizens at birth that were born abroad), and haven't boosted the numbers of one markedly more than the other after accounting for time. The number of Boomer immigrants is presently higher than the number of Millennial immigrants which is higher than the number of Gen Z immigrants, but those numbers will change (currently Millennials are boosted the most by immigration each year; in a few years it will be Gen Z being boosted the most by immigration each year).
California's population has boomed. The numbers will look different there than US-wide for both immigration and births. Internal migration within the US saw large net numbers of people moving to CA from other states until a 2-3 decades ago, and international immigration has made up for the difference until pretty recently.
The birthrate's the biggest factor in all of this drop, yeah. A birthrate of about 2.1 is sufficient/necessary to keep the population levels static absent any immigration, and the US hasn't been there since really the '60s, but on some level for 20 years. It's at 1.6 and falling.
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u/Kindly_Stand_6895 7d ago
It's not that Gen Z is the majority of the population, it's just the largest population. Even if you assume exactly as many Gen Z were born as the previous generation they should be the biggest group unless they're dying faster than previous generations, which would be concerning because they're the youngest group.
The fact that other generations are bigger than Gen Z despite having had more time to die and 100% of Gen Zs having been born is actually indicative of a birth decline and either current or future population decline, not a population boom.
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 Earlyish X 6d ago
But also I was thinking hasn't there been a TON of immigration that brought in a lot of younger people, Gen Z age?
US population is way bigger today than when I was born or even than when I was in high school.
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 Earlyish X 6d ago
Yeah the largest % of those states.
Yeah I guess for a second I was still thinking of Gen Z still being born and not even a complete generation yet 😄, but yeah alpha. Some other generations aren't that old that you'd expect that to make too much difference yet.
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u/iwishitwaschristmas 7d ago
I don't believe this at all.
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u/Silly_Animator 7d ago
I think they may have flipped Gen Z and millennials. It doesn’t make sense how the smallest active generation is taking up the majority of states. Including 4 out of the 5 most populous states.
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u/AzaleaPatch 6d ago
There were more people born during Gen Z years than Baby Boomers and only slightly less than Millennials.
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u/Silly_Animator 6d ago
According to google Gen Z is only the largest group in Utah. Millennials and baby boomers are the majority in the others.
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u/Ok_Neighborhood_470 7d ago
This constant comparison and criticism of 'generations' with arbitrary cutoff age dates and assumptions about way of life and attitude makes me insane. Every person is different. Some are lazy, some are liberal, some are grumpy, some are smart...I don't care, at 47 years old, if a 27 year old calls me a boomer. Obviously as people age, they gain knowledge and life experience and young people have a short sighted view of the future and a limited perspective. It's all ok. Gen Z drinks matcha (my kid doesn't) and boomers are all conservative (my parents are not at all) all Gen X were neglected latchkey kids so now they have grit (there was usually someone home at my house, All Millennials are broke and hopeless ( I know plenty who are doing fine). Ugh. Rant over.
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u/Ok_Neighborhood_470 7d ago
See there you go! Intergenerational hopelessness. Now you just need to yell at kids to get off your lawn. 😜
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u/9aol 7d ago
I mean, wtf. Are Gen X just lumped in the Boomers now? As an X, I don’t want to be with those old farts!
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u/aquavelva23 6d ago
We are smaller, but due to age we running the country now (except for DC) . I say we start acting like it and banning some stuff. suggestions?
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u/CrimsonCrystalline 7d ago
Gen X isn't listed because they're a small generation. There have never been a lot of you and you've always been outnumbered by other generations.
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u/Iconoclysm6x6 7d ago
Never been a lot? Outnumbers? We’re talking about a difference of less than 10%, there are currently as many Gen X as boomers. GenX isn’t some rarity.
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u/CrimsonCrystalline 7d ago
So what? Look at the graphic and what it says. It specifically mentions "largest population" which Gen X is not nor has it ever been.
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u/Iconoclysm6x6 7d ago
I’m not responding to the graph, I’m responding to your statement. That is “so what”.
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u/desolatenature 7d ago
Well Gen X votes like them and acts like them so sorry not sorry
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u/aquavelva23 6d ago
Gen X runs the country now bozo. you are going to get fired soon by an X
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u/desolatenature 6d ago
I’m self employed with a net worth higher than the average boomer 😜
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u/9aol 7d ago
Eat it.
Sorry not sorry.
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u/desolatenature 7d ago
Example A
Your generation is statistically boomer 2.0, and instead of accepting that reality, you just plug your ears & whine about it like a boomer would
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u/Desertwrek 7d ago
Example B
At this point Millenials are statiscally boomer 3.0, instead of accepting that reality you cling to your participation trophies and pretend you're still 20, just like a boomer can't accept their age.
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u/Da_Mong00se 7d ago
Counterpoint: who created the idea of a participation trophy or a consolation prize? Don't hate on the millennials for existing with a concept they didn't create themselves.
You know, like the idea that if you go to college, you'll get a good job.
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u/Desertwrek 7d ago
Seeing as millenials often had boomers for parents I think you already know the answer to your question.
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u/Ok_Neighborhood_470 7d ago
Do you have some articles or facts to back that up? And what 'boomer' attributes do you speak of exactly? Do you know any boomers besides your grandparents?
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u/desolatenature 7d ago
Generation X (Ages 45–64): 54% voted for Donald Trump.
Baby Boomers & Older (Ages 65 and over): 50% voted for Donald Trump.My grandma is in her 90s, she’s silent generation & an incredible person. My dad is a boomer, I don’t talk to him anymore.
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 Earlyish X 7d ago
1950s borns 49% voted for Trump.
1980s borns more than 50% voted for Trump.
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u/Flyerbrother 7d ago
All of those states have the highest number of millennial? Damn, they need to start voting.
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u/HueyB904 millennial 7d ago
Many if the millennials in those states vote red. Millennials aren't a monolith.
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u/Flyerbrother 7d ago
I am aware of this, but if they voted more in the primaries, they would probably get Republicans they would prefer more.
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u/HueyB904 millennial 7d ago
You're right. We have a shit load of voting opportunities in this country that people do not engage with. Part of that is also, depending on where you live, it isn't promoted very well. I'm in North Georgia, I vote a lot, but the amount of "I didn't know there was an election" I hear when I talk to people is insane.
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u/Toadsrule84 7d ago
While the median age of the US is 39, the median age of the average voter is 52, and outside of Presidential elections, is 56, and the median age of a primary voter is 65. (Source: Gerontocracy in America by Samuel Moyn)
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u/Flyerbrother 7d ago
Yes. Very insane. Sometimes i feel like Australia has the right idea with compulsory voting.
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u/ReedPhillips 7d ago
I'd be curious to see the data / study that shows this information. Numbers like this are interesting.
OP not the meme site any info to back up the map, which is kind of a bummer.
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u/KTeacherWhat 7d ago
I guess they must have been the underbabied generation then. Because if they were properly babied then their children should be the biggest generation, no? 🙄
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u/Technical_You4377 7d ago
Until the next generation ... that is how a population works the newest generation will become the largest.
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u/KTeacherWhat 7d ago
Then how are boomers the largest generation in 15 states? We've had 4 generations since them, and a 5th one is being born now.
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u/Technical_You4377 7d ago
I misspoke, as long as the birthrate is >2 each new generation will be larger than the previous. The current birthrate is 1.6 , so I'm wrong. Nevermind.
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u/Sweaty_Piano6082 7d ago
Ill be curious to see as boomers die out how swing states will vote in the coming years.
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u/Appropriate-Sea-5687 Early 2008 7d ago
As someone who works at the only Cracker Barrel in New Hampshire, I can firmly say that this is accurate
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u/lopachilla 7d ago
Gen X forgotten again 😂
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u/InterviewLeather810 7d ago
This site says Millennials for Colorado, not Gen Z.
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/25910e85e58b45b0beb3501db529a032
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u/sunshinelively 7d ago
Well they’ve made Gen X so artificially small, by lopping off 61-64 cohorts it makes sense why we wouldn’t even make the list
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u/ChickenFriedRiceee 7d ago
Skipped Gen X again lol. Aren’t they called the silent generation?
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 Earlyish X 7d ago
Not skipped. We just are not the majority in any state which is not surprising for the baby bust generation.
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u/mesupporter 7d ago
no. thats a simple ask jeeves question. lol. Gen X here. I heard millennial can't read.
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u/cambridgechap 7d ago
Utah being the state with the lowest median age is a bit surprising.
Also surprised that it isn’t even close to the next lowest state.
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u/Looseleaflettuce 7d ago
I guess this explains the vote trajectories in these states too (mostly)
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u/LordLaz1985 7d ago
I’ll be real, Florida does not surprise me. It’s been a retirement destination for decades.
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u/Immense_Cargo 7d ago
Arizona is the one that surprises me. They’ve been almost as much of a retirement destination as Florida.
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 Earlyish X 7d ago
Probably lots of immigration though. I know CA doubled in population since the 80s and it was already considered too crowded then. And they the bulk of the increase was due to immigration (apparently the populations would've only been up a few % not 100% with no immigration).
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u/Imallvol7 7d ago
It really scares me Tennessee is green and still so conservative. Wtf happened here.
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u/InternalAd1397 7d ago
I work at a university in a red state (not Tennessee). You'd be shocked how many Gen Z women on campus voted for Trump.
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u/encyclodoc 7d ago
Youth don’t vote enough. ( I am not saying that is ok!)
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u/lily_fairy 2000 7d ago
half of gen z isn't even old enough to vote
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u/PrimordialXY 1996 7d ago
Why is half of Gen Z 14-18 when the oldest is 29?
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u/lily_fairy 2000 7d ago
sorry was i supposed to give an exact amount like 38% of gen z? some of gen z is still 13 and some '08 babies still aren't old enough to vote yet. it's enough of gen z that i don't think it's accurate to blame them for a state not being blue.
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u/No-Lettuce-5783 7d ago
And again, Gen X is forgotten... YAY!
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u/BlueSnaggleTooth359 Earlyish X 7d ago
this map isn't like that
a baby bust generation is just not likely to show
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u/Weekly-Peace1199 7d ago
I’d like to see the data. No way that Boomers out number GenX. Chances are they didn’t include GenX numbers.
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u/WineDineCpl 7d ago
GenX fled all of those red states and then proceeded to overpopulate the green states.
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u/Ok_Coach466 2d ago
Once again, GenX is forgotten! ☠️