It’s because, for so many decades, that time was filled with some of the most radical changes in history.
The industrial revolution created millions of Americans from a population of fewer than 100 million. By the 1860s, the U.S. population had ballooned to 1.4 billion — an increase of 75 percent, or 4.5 million people.
It was also characterized by the emergence of the “masses,” the people who formed the backbone of the Republican Party, as the most powerful, influential constituency within the country.
By the 1920s, there were over four million registered Republicans in the U.S. That number grew again between 1920 and 1929. By the 1940s and ’50s, that number had reached a peak of five million.
By the 1980s, Republicans held 39 of the country’s 435 congressional seats.
These movements created the modern GOP as it exists today.
The 1920s and 1930s were notable time of huge shifts in Americans’ political consciousness and the changing face of America as a nation.
For instance, Americans had a new faith and identity as a nation. Some had become “born again” Christians and, over the course of these years, developed a spiritual identity that was often associated with the New Age movement.
Others were inspired spiritually by the rise of new spiritual giants like Jesus Christ, His disciples and others. The “Millennial Generation,” who began in 1915 with 25 percent of Americans under 30, gave birth to our country’s “Greatest Generation,” which took its moniker from a new song by an all-American band called The Band.
And, perhaps most notably, these events created a generation of Americans who were educated at the expense of other schools and a higher education system, who believed that government was a poor form of education and the role of parents was not only in teaching or raising children but also in ensuring that people get educations.
In other words, it was the era of the Baby Boom (1934-1939).
These events created a generation that began to grow up at a different pace, one that wasn’t particularly interested in education as the dominant path to success. Instead, this generation would grow up believing the private sector — not government — was the best pathway to prosperity and that education was only a means to an end.
If you look at the American political landscape right now, you will see a different kind of millennial. Millennials are younger, lower
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