I emphatically do not agree. A peak year perhaps. Not peak Gen X. More Millennial lite.

But if should be the start of Xennial- which should be 75-85.

All the products that seperate the vast bulk of Gen X from Millennial were hitting throughout the living memory of a 1975 birth- specifically station based home electronics and entertainment that were not really supplanted until the iPad and Smart Phone started to gobble up screen time.

Stylistically- Look at the year book- goofy 1980s haircuts and clothes are done by 1992 and 1993 outside of backwaters.

Nam and Watergate, you don’t remember that. Cable, Nintendo, VCR, internet at college or at first job- were likely a huge part of your life after say age 7 ie living memory. You might recall a bit of Carter but you were a preschool babby at the oldest.

But the distinguishing traits of Millennial- ie more involved parenting on average, a drop in risky teen behaviors, don’t arrive until a 1975 birth is in highschool.

I understand it varies greatly by region. But in general, crime starts to plummet after 1993- before the “crime bill” of Clinton, but teenage behaviors stay high until the aughts.

Those correspond much more closely with the Generation schema I laid out- which is only about 700 days off from the typical Xennial start of 1977.

The Boomer generation is askew as well. It’s a huge split between being in danger of fighting in Nam or participating in the Silent Gen led youth movements of 1968 than being a young adult afterwards.