[lbo-talk] progress

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Mon Mar 5 16:03:15 PST 2007


On 3/5/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Heritage did a study in 2005 <http://www.heritage.org/Research/
> NationalSecurity/cda05-08.cfm>, which unlike a lot of their stuff,
> seems serious and honest. Here's the summary:
> > In summary, we found that, on average, 1999 recruits were more
> > highly educated than the equivalent general population, more rural
> > and less urban in origin

More rural and less urban. See? (Cf. "War Losses Mount for Small Towns," <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20070219/003448.html>)

And if you look at war fighters in war zones (as opposed to those with support duties), you'd find white guys from rural areas even more overrepresented than in the military as a whole: "while whites and blacks seek out careers in communications, intelligence, the medical corps and other specialties in roughly equal numbers, blacks are two and a half times as likely to fill support or administrative roles, while whites are 50 percent more likely to serve in the infantry, gun crews or their naval equivalent" (David M. Halbfinger and Steven A. Holmes, "Military Mirrors Working-Class America," New York Times, 30 March 2003, <http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/rad-green/2003-March/007860.html>).

White guys from small towns are the type of Americans who tend to be most overlooked by American leftists, most of whom prefer urban living. -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>



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