Charles,
The original definition of boomers was 1945-1960. I don't know what idiot started claiming it was 1945-1964. Generation X is not a full 20 yearsa in length - by definition its a of a class of people that are economically oppressed by huge numbers of people ahead of them in line for an economic future. If you read Douglas Coupland's book, "Generation X", and live in Vancouver BC (where Coupland wrote the book, and where I lived for 2 years), you will understand better why 1960 is the correct cutoff date. In particular, 1990 brought huge waves of hong kong millionaires to Vancouver which made boomers rich and gen'Xers into paupers.
As someone who finished his graduate training in 1993, I can say without a doubt that after graduation I fit into generation X. Among other things, gen-X'ers got no college subsidies (no Pell grants), go to jail for not paying back student loans, have to eat ramen for 10 years to get a postage stamp house on a floodplain on a flight path at age 35+ (avg. age of first hosue) because the boomers "got all the good houses". That's me.
- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA