> 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.
Even with American rural areas being depopulated, there is an obvious reason why most of the soldiers are white guys from the rural U.S.
Because this war relies heavily on the use of National Guard units instead of the draft. National Guard units are based on the culture of rural U.S. White guys join the National Guard so they can shoot guns on weekends and make a few extra bucks.
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