For much if my life I considered myself apart of Generation X. My parents were Baby Boomers, and their parents were the Greatest Generation, so this makes me Gen-X, right? I saw the newest generation as children who never knew life without computers, and always received awards for precipitation. I could not possibly be one of them. This generation, formally known as Generation Y, has seemed to have found a new name; The Millennial Generation, and I think I am one of them.
Alan Greenblatt explains how many opinions exist about which age range truly describes Millennials in his article “Millennial Generation.” Greenblatt states, “Experts don’t agree yet as to who exactly is a Millennial. But various researchers say the oldest Millennials were born in 1980, 1981, or 1982. Depending on who you ask, they say the youngest Millennials were born between 1995 and 2005” (Greenblatt, 2015, p. 556). Having been born in 1980 places me at the lower boundary of the Millennial age range. If being judged by birth year alone, I will have to …show more content…
Abramowitz writes, “The reason the large majority of Millennials vote Democratic is that they agree with Democrats on almost every major national issues, from raising the minimum wage, to addressing climate change, to passing comprehensive immigration reform, to supporting marriage equality” He goes on to say, “This is a serious problem for the GOP. With every passing year, Millennials make up a larger share of the electorate while Americans who entered the electorate during the 1960s and earlier make up a smaller share” (Abramowitz, 2015, p. 569). The democratic party has clearly identified this opportunity to capture a voting block described by Greenblatt as “the generation (of) roughly 75 million (which) has surpassed the Baby Boomers’ overall all size and share of the electorate” (Greenblatt, 2015, p.