![]() ![]() And that was still in place when the Baby Boom began. There were - about a century ago, there were new restrictions placed on immigration, a backlash to immigrants from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe in particular. ![]() So one of the fascinating things about the Baby Boomers, it began at a low in American immigration. And it's creating a new set of urgencies that the government has to deal with and that our society has to deal with. And we have now reached the point where Baby Boomers are older and retiring. So it is this massive increase, particularly in young people right at the outset of the Baby Boom, that forces the United States, the python in this analogy, to try and deal with the pig that has just swallowed.Īnd the important factor here is that the pig is still passing through the python. Not only does it have a huge bulge in it, but the bulge has to sort of work its way through the system.Īnd so your point about the 76 million people being born, the population of the United States in 1945 was only 140 million. Philip Bump, Author, "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America": Well, I mean, it's certainly not a charming one.īut it is fitting, in the sense that you can imagine very easily this fairly narrow python that all of a sudden has this huge bulge in it. In what way? Why is that a fitting analogy? You say: "When the Boomers entered the world, it was like a python swallowing a pig." Their influence is really stitched into the fabric of modern-day America.Īnd you borrow an analogy in the book. His book is "The Aftermath: The Last Days of the Baby Boom and the Future of Power in America."Īnd when we talk about the Baby Boom generation, we're talking about the 76 million people that were born during that 19-year span. And he takes a closer look at the generation's impact. Philip Bump is a national columnist for The Washington Post. The roughly 76 million people born between 19 have reshaped American society at each stage of their lives, crowding American classrooms in the '50s and '60s, filling the labor and housing markets decades later, ultimately leaving their imprint on our politics and institutions. The impact of the Baby Boom generation is impossible to ignore. ![]()
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