Re: "Right to bear arms" (was: OT Science versus religion: Is compromise im

In article <crjiis$ju4$1@peabody.colorado.edu>,
"Howard Brazee" <howard@brazee.net> wrote:

> On  5-Jan-2005, Joe Zitzelberger <joe_zitzelberger@nospam.com> wrote:
> 
>
> Please provide numbers.    (Not where they reside now, as California resid
ents
> often "reside" in Texas for tax purposes when they get a chance while they
 are
> serving overseas).

Here are the numbers you asked for.  It took some doing, I actually used
the M$ Excel product -- I really want to exercise some 2nd amendment
rights upon whomever designed that stupid little Mac128 agent.  (the
paperclip in the windoze version)

I took the DOD population representation survey and mixed it with the
2004 electoral vote.  It shows military enlistment by percent of
population by state and enlistments per electoral vote.

You can find the full table at "www.zitzelberger.net/index.html".

The data used was for 2002 enlistments, the most recent year available.
D.C. is included as a state because I had data for it.  The population
figures are from the reapportionment census.

Some interesting details:

- Washington, The first blue state to appear is 19th ranked in
military enlistment.

- Only 3 blue states appear in the top 30.

- The bottom of the table is solid blue, the top, solid red.  This
tends to support my contention that the army is populated by 'red state
types'.

Enjoy.