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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] How to judge history, was Obama and religion
  • Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 05:28:48 -0500


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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