Growing up in the Midwest in the 80s, I was very aware that trends from California took 1 to 3 years to make it to Milwaukee. My wife, a native Arizonan, had se

Growing up in the Midwest in the 80s, I was very aware that trends from California took 1 to 3 years to make it to Milwaukee. My wife, a native Arizonan, had several fads sweep through her school years before mine (most recently, we talked about hyper color shirts, she had one in third grade, I never saw one until 5th). We’re on the cusp of Gen X and Millennial and I feel like my attitude and constitution tend to have more Gen X similarities while she tends to show more Millenial attributes (slightly). I’ve often wondered if that cultural delay affects the generation with which people on the borders identify.