Mix of two things, I think. Gen X is a smaller demographic, and often overlooked/forgotten, and I've observed an apparent tendency to apply "boomer" to include

Mix of two things, I think. Gen X is a smaller demographic, and often overlooked/forgotten, and I've observed an apparent tendency to apply "boomer" to include what is actually Gen X, when in fact the Baby Boomers are often parents to Gen Xers. Time dilation, recency bias, and all that. Anything that happened before you were born is all history, right?