50s as American's greatest years doesn't resonate? Sounds like you're not a Boomer.

Here's why that time when America was once theoretically the best ever may not sync with what you remember.

Today’s Boomers—reduced to only one out of five Americans from the Boomer heyday dominance of one out of three—are often the loudest bemoaning “the good old days,” with a general default to the late 50s. If that doesn’t feel right to you, here’s why.

Digging deeply into data, one simple variable—more than any other—determines when you think the nation peaked. And unless you’re a Boomer, it won’t be the 50s. (Probably a good time to remind everyone our parents in their 70s were sure the world was going to hell then, too.)

WaPo’s Department of Data sorted through a massive amount of data to get to the only variable that synced with all of it: “The good old days when America was ‘great’ aren’t the 1950s. They’re whatever decade you were 11, your parents knew the correct answer to any question, and you’d never heard of war crimes tribunals, microplastics or improvised explosive devices. Or when you were 15 and athletes and musicians still played hard and hadn’t sold out.” And, I’d ad, before the massive parent-child battles of teen years really set in with a vengeance.

Read it all here (gift article); it’s a good one!