On 2/20/07, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Nearly half of the more than 3,100 U.S. military fatalities in Iraq
have come from towns like McKeesport, where fewer than 25,000 people
live, according to an analysis by The Associated Press. One in five
hailed from hometowns of less than 5,000."
AP: War Losses Mount for Small Towns
By KIMBERLY HEFLING
The Associated Press
Tuesday, February 20, 2007; 12:05 PM
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McKeesport is not alone in its mourning. Nearly half of the more than
3,100 U.S. military fatalities in Iraq have come from towns like
McKeesport, where fewer than 25,000 people live, according to an
analysis by The Associated Press. One in five hailed from hometowns of
less than 5,000.
The Census Bureau said 56 percent of the population in 2005 lived in
towns under 25,000 and in unincorporated areas, but it could not provide
the number of people living only in communities of less than 25,000. The
2000 census showed 16 percent of the population lived in unicorporated
rural areas.
<snip>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022000106_pf.html
I'm afraid that most leftists, in contrast, live where the other 44
percent live, especially in the most urban areas (or near college
campuses if they live in small towns at all). Social geography of
America doesn't easily lend itself to an anti-war movement in the age
of wars fought by an army of working-class volunteers from small
towns.
--
Yoshie
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