| Joe Zitzelberger 2005-01-11, 8:55 pm |
| In article <cs0q2k$lce$1@peabody.colorado.edu>,
"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
> On 11-Jan-2005, Joe Zitzelberger <joe_zitzelberger@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>
> Very interesting.
>
> Have you looked at a map showing red and blue counties? (some can be
> googled).
> The election was very much an urban vs rural thing.
>
> I heard an article on the radio discussing the fact that rural soldiers are
> much
> more likely to be casualties than urban soldiers. The hypothesis put forth
> is
> that rural soldiers are less likely to see a good job when they return home,
> so
> they are more interested in being the best soldiers that they can be - this
> is
> their career. Urban soldiers are more likely to be thinking on how to
> survive
> long enough to come home and use the GI bill to go back to school.
Did they run the data so that they could be sure it wasn't just more
rural soldiers on the battlefield, ergo more representation in the
casualties?
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