[wardaddy]

Here's one...not that it will make any difference to your prejudice known to many here for years now.


"Young people ''say, 'What can you offer me that somebody else can't?' '' says Maj. Gen. Evan Gaddis, commander of Army recruiting. It's a question recruiters never used to hear in the South, where a military base is rarely farther than a few hours' drive. Southerners boast a rich military tradition, and Army statistics show that young men here are three times more likely to consider military service than those in the Northeast and twice as likely as youth in the Midwest and West. Which is why the apathy in this town is so striking. ?

from here: (a cursory google "southerners enlist more")

http://www.armedforcescareers.com/articles/article14.html

I'm out to dinner with my wife...we have a sitter...I can look more for you when I get back....that's google...GOOGLE.com

[M. Espinola]

Could the reasoning in part behind a ratio of more military bases being in the South be the weather, the lack of a longer snow season, or none at all?

Maybe the another lingering factor dates to the post Civil War period - just in case of the same foolishness was/is reattempted as in 1860-61 - lol? (not likely since the type of Southerners which would even think of such a ridiculous disaster are far out numbered, even by locals living in the real world & the continuous influx of normal Americans buying investment properties, living there seasonally or even year round.)

[dixiechick2000]

Big ole bump!

I hope you and your wife thoroughly
enjoyed your night out...alone. ;o)