@notcapnamerica I think you're referring to Yuppies! “Young urban professional”. These individuals were typically of the baby boomer gen (those born between 1946-1964) and worked high-paying jobs in cities. We're former hippies. https://t.co/LKrZ3WTNOe.
@notcapnamerica Wrong generation. You're thinking of boomers, but the boomer "hippies" were not as prevalent as people think. There weren't that many of them overall. They stayed true, but the rest of them did also... they voted for Nixon in '72 and beyond.
@notcapnamerica We never had GenX hippies. I’m first-year GenX - 1965 - and hippies were sort of a thing in the 70s. I didn’t turn 18 until 1983, and then I went off to the Air Force. I did vote for Reagan in ‘84 tho.
@notcapnamerica Uh... Gen X were never hippies. There was a brief 60s retro flirtation that started in the late 80s and ran into the mid-90s, but there was a lot of cosplay going on with an X segment that just did the crunchy pothead thing for a few years in their teens and 20s.
@notcapnamerica The oldest Gen Xers were 15 when Reagan 1st ran. 19 in 1984.
Don't think so.
You're talking about Boomers. Hippie era ended in mid 1970s. Oldest Gen X would have been 10.
@notcapnamerica Respectfully you have confused the Boomers and GenX. The boomers were our parents, may have been hippies and definitely many of them did become Reagan republicans.
GenX is alternative music, Doc Martens, IDGAF about anything, FAFO, terrible Boomer parents
@notcapnamerica With all due respect, Chris. The math isn't mathing. Only the oldest Gen X cohort would have been able to vote for Reagan in his second term. The rest of us were too young. I couldn't even vote until Bill Clinton ran against Bush senior.
@notcapnamerica Gen X? The oldest Gen Xers turned 15 the year Reagan was elected.
Now I know that the front half of Gen X is problematic but the overwhelming majority of us are too young to have voted for Reagan either time he ran.
BOOMERS went from hippie to Reaganite.