Generational labels have become cultural identifiers. These include Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha. And each of these generations is defined by its unique characteristics, personalities and experiences that set them apart from other generations.

But in-between these generational categories are “microgenerations”, who straddle the generation before and after them. For example, “Xennial” is the microgeneration name for those who fall on the cusp of Gen X and Millennials.

And there is also a microgeneration between Baby Boomers and Gen X called Generation Jones, which is made up of people born from 1954 to 1965. (Not everyone recognizes it as a separate generation: Pew Research Center defines Boomers as born 1946 to 1964 and Gen X as 1965 to 1980.) But what exactly differentiates Gen Jones from the Boomers and Gen Xers that flank it?

What is Generation Jones?

“Generation Jones” was coined around 1999 by writer and cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell to describe Americans born from 1954 to 1965, who grew up in the ’60s and ’70s. As Pontell wrote of Gen Jonesers in a 2009 Politico Europe op-ed:

“We fill the space between Woodstock and Lollapalooza, between the Paris student riots and the........

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