On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
> I wish some geographer would make a map or chart contrasting a
> state's war losses with the amount that state gets from the
> military-industrial complex. My impression is that the sun belt
> gets a ton of money per very few casualties; whereas the rust belt
> is vastly over-representing in death, with very little military
> money anymore and almost none of it in economy-stimulating hi-tech.
There's actually almost no correlation at all (r=.0036) between a state's rank in Iraq deaths per million pop and their military contracts per capita. Here's the data, for the geeks out there:
Iraq deaths per million pop military contracts, $ per capita --------------------------------- -------------------------------- rank state deaths rank state amount 27 Alabama 11 6 Alabama 1,008 4 Alaska 20 3 Alaska 1,487 17 Arizona 13 8 Arizona 938 10 Arkansas 14 33 Arkansas 295 41 California 9 14 California 666 43 Colorado 9 12 Colorado 707 48 Connecticut 7 51 Connecticut 2 9 Delaware 15 43 Delaware 169 51 District of Colum 5 50 District of Colum 3 47 Florida 7 26 Florida 389 35 Georgia 10 15 Georgia 627 30 Hawaii 11 4 Hawaii 1,158 11 Idaho 14 13 Idaho 678 40 Illinois 9 44 Illinois 154 38 Indiana 10 34 Indiana 292 15 Iowa 13 42 Iowa 182 22 Kansas 12 23 Kansas 421 18 Kentucky 13 18 Kentucky 545 8 Louisiana 16 25 Louisiana 392 29 Maine 11 9 Maine 823 32 Maryland 10 5 Maryland 1,106 45 Massachusetts 8 11 Massachusetts 745 23 Michigan 12 39 Michigan 217 42 Minnesota 9 35 Minnesota 284 14 Mississippi 14 10 Mississippi 795 39 Missouri 9 7 Missouri 962 7 Montana 16 47 Montana 137 5 Nebraska 19 45 Nebraska 150 31 Nevada 11 22 Nevada 432 16 New Hampshire 13 21 New Hampshire 439 49 New Jersey 6 27 New Jersey 385 21 New Mexico 12 1 New Mexico 2,489 46 New York 7 38 New York 218 44 North Carolina 8 41 North Carolina 183 3 North Dakota 20 30 North Dakota 337 25 Ohio 12 32 Ohio 296 12 Oklahoma 14 24 Oklahoma 417 13 Oregon 14 48 Oregon 104 24 Pennsylvania 12 29 Pennsylvania 369 34 Rhode Island 10 31 Rhode Island 319 37 South Carolina 10 36 South Carolina 258 2 South Dakota 22 37 South Dakota 249 28 Tennessee 11 16 Tennessee 577 19 Texas 12 17 Texas 575 50 Utah 6 19 Utah 508 1 Vermont 29 20 Vermont 478 26 Virginia 12 2 Virginia 2,301 33 Washington 10 28 Washington 377 36 West Virginia 10 49 West Virginia 81 20 Wisconsin 12 40 Wisconsin 191 6 Wyoming 18 46 Wyoming 148
rank correlation: 0.0036