oldsaw wrote: Point of contention, SVrex: the youngest Boomers weren't even eligible to vote until 1967, several years after socially-based legislation like the Civil Rights Act and LBJ's Great Society. Even as those acts were deserved and long overdue, the unfortunate part is that they have been hijacked and used as vote-buying tools. As for the rest of your post, I'll pretty much agree. Especially the last two paragraphs.
Correct. But I didn't say ALL the Boomers. The oldest boomers (born in 1946) were very much at the forefront of that legislation.
And Civil Rights Act or not, the societal endorsement of terrible acts continued well into the '70s.