Posted on 07/20/2005 1:08:09 PM PDT by neverdem
WHICH American communities pay the highest price for the war in Iraq? A look at the demographics of soldiers killed reveals that Iraq is not the war of any one race or region. Rather, it is rural America's war.
Altogether, a nearly equal percentage of Americans aged 18 to 54 live in counties with a million or more inhabitants as live in counties of 100,000 or fewer. And yet, of the soldiers who have died in Iraq, 342 came from densely populated counties while 536 came from smaller ones. Derived from Pentagon and census data, this chart shows the Iraqi war death rates for every 100,000 people ages 18 to 54 by the size of their county's population.
The difference is visible not just in the size of a soldier's county of origin, but also in its location. Counties disconnected from urban areas tend to have higher death rates, regardless of population size. Small rural counties have a death rate nearly twice that of counties that have the same population but happen to be part of metropolitan areas.
Why should this be? It's not that Iraqi insurgents are singling out rural soldiers, or that commanders are putting them at particular risk. Rather, the armed forces themselves must be disproportionately drawn from rural communities - a fact not immediately discernible from recruitment data, which report the race, age and education of recruits, but not their home counties.
This is above all an economics story. Military studies consistently find that a poor economy is a boon to recruiting. The higher rate of deaths from rural counties likely reflects sparse opportunities for young people in those places.
When the Iraq war memorials go up in years to come, these monuments to heroism and sacrifice will be found less often in thriving urban centers...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Could this happen at your school ?
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I should add some other horrible things that also happend:
Christmas carols and other religious songs are sung & played at concerts.
Every one stands at the start of sporting events. And remove there hats with out being told to. As students sing the National Anthem.
Even the liberal teachers have guns and chase bambi’s through the woods.
I am not sure that American street smarts would be a consistent advantage in foreign cities and cultures, especially after the first month or so.
Don't know what you mean by "major" but the three largest cities in North Dakota are predominantly white. (Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Forks)
I was wondering about that, too. Jomini, Sun Tsu, but Nocolo?
Anyway, I did a search and came up with this: The art of War by Machiavelli
Learn something new every day.
I did understand your post, but I was making a point of my own.
In any area that is predominantly one way, any casualties that occur will come primarily out of the group.
Namely, in 85% black Macon County, it stands to reason that 85% of war casualties from said county are going to be black. That's simple statistics.
I would classify major as having a main city population of at least 150,000 alongside a metropolitan population of at least 400,000
(I knew I lived here for a reason!)
Hey, that was some good writing! Keep up the thin brush stroke and hang in there.
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