25 years ago in reason.

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"Pollsters continually find [baby boomers] exhibiting markedly more liberal attitudes than the general population on social and lifestyle issues such as abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, and legalizing marijuana. At the same time, baby-boom voters are more likely to hold 'conservative'--that is, free-market and anti-interventionist--economic views."

--Bill Kauffman, "Making Republicanism Cool"

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