[Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion
Gene GeRue
genegerue at ruralize.com
Thu May 1 06:28:48 EDT 2008
On May 1, 2008, at 1:31 AM, Lynda wrote:
> The last stats are from 2003-2005. At that time "the South"
> accounted for
> 38% of the population of the U.S. and 43% of the enlistments.
Enlistment percentages may be mostly an indication of family financial
status, boys and girls who find no better choice. I don't think of
military enlistment today as an expression of patriotism or as
indicating feelings toward military enterprises or wars in general. I
believe that the lowest per capita incomes are in the South.
My curiosity was whether the apparently ongoing Southern feelings
about the Civil War would translate into a greater antipathy toward
war in general. Not sure how that might be measured. Where's our
resident sociologist?
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