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A baby boomer is someone who was born during the period of increased birth rates when economic prosperity arose in many countries following World War II. In the United States, the term is iconic and more properly capitalized as Baby Boomers and commonly applied to people with birth years from the span 1946 to 1964, which may comprise more than one generation. The Baby Boom is the iconic term widely used to refer to the American population and culture in particular, as post WW II demographics abroad did not mirror the sustained growth in American families over the same interval. Baby boomers also had the highest median household incomes in the United States.
In his book, Boomer Nation, Steve Gillon breaks this population into two groups: Boomers, born between 1945 and 1957; and Shadow Boomers born between 1958 and 1963. In some cases the term Shadow Boomer is incorrectly applied to the children of the Baby Boomers. However this group is more accurately referred to as Echo Boomers.excerpt of Boomer Nation on the Plymouth State University website
A large part of this was an after effect of World War II where the bombed out cities and fractured economies required goods and services in unprecendented peacetime amounts, and the Arsenal of Democracy switched gears and started cranking out goods and materials for export, as America supplied the "free world" with goods to rebuild their own economies. This led to an unprecedented bubble of vigorous economic growth that didn't slow down until 1958, and the G.I. Bill sent enabled record numbers of individuals to attend college and obtain, perhaps in most cases, the first college degree in their extended families. Levittown showed the way to flee the cities into the outlying suburbs which municipalities also grew at astonishing and unprecedented rates. The only contemporary example that might be somewhat similar is the ongoing rebuilding of New Orleans and around the Gulf Coast in general. So the Baby Boomers grew up in a new world quasi-dominated by American Military might, where the bad guys were known to be socialists and communists, during a cold war where researches lead to today's computer driven world—which if glimpsed then would have been scoffed at as poor science fiction. Moreover, the generation matured for the most part both off the farm and outside of urban crowding when every year brought new wonders, marvelous gadgets and household appliances, and unemployment was virtually nil—provided your family was Caucasian and willing to work.
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