Analysis of the Generations Isn’t an Exact Science

[Kinser79]

@Tara,

First let me say that you are very much a civic. In fact one of the most civic people I know and I have adult memories of GIs. That being said there is a great deal of overlap with the generations and not just due to turning. I've postulated in the past that social class and siblings (and to a lesser extent cousins) play a part in the manifestation of ones Nomadness, Civicness, Artistness, and Prophetness.

For example my sister and you share the same birth year yet she is no where near as civic as you are having a clear lean toward civic but having more than a little nomad flavor. That flavor I would argue is the response of being in a household not only having a late wave Xer older brother but also having contact with core and early Xer cousins.

Add to that social class and it has been my experience that those coming from the working class and working poor seem to have an exaggerated level of Adaptives and Nomads whereas in the more well off classes the opposite is true (Civics and Prophets being exaggerated).

That being said, it is my opinion that the S&H dates are perhaps the best, excluding my own of course (but that is mostly because I have problems with the Civil War Saeculum rather than the current saeculum).