Senate gets more young lawmakers after elections

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/senate-slightly-younger-midterms-26724696

Oh my.

Senate Gets More Young Lawmakers After Elections

The next Senate will be slightly younger than the current one.
 
With several races still to be called, the 11 newly-minted senators set to take office in January are, on average, 16 years younger than the lawmakers they are replacing. Each incoming senator is younger than the departing senator — some by decades.
 
Four of the new senators are under 50, boosting a small contingent of Generation X members in the upper chamber. Gen Xers follow baby boomers and were born from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.
 
At 37, Republican Sen.-elect Tom Cotton of Arkansas is the youngest incoming senator, while Republican David Perdue of Georgia, 64, is the oldest. The average age of the new senators is 50, compared with 66 for the lawmakers they are replacing. All but one of the 11 are Republicans.....

.....Four women won Senate seats on Tuesday, including Iowa Republican Joni Ernst, the first woman ever in Iowa's congressional delegation and the first female veteran to serve in the Senate. Ernst, 44, is 28 years younger than the man she replaces, longtime Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin.
 
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., won a promotion to the Senate. Capito, 60, replaces retiring Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller, 77.....

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Gen Xers follow baby boomers and were born from the early 1960s to the early 1980s.

Baby boomers are people born during the demographic Post–World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term "baby boomer" is also used in a cultural context.

Born in 1961, I think I have more in common with "baby boomers" than Gen Xers.