[Minus_The_Bear]

ie the people from the reddest sections of the country

[dighton]

Full reading not needed to grasp its idiocy.

[Billthedrill]

The AP couldn't make it any more obvious, could they? Despite the actual statistics to the contrary they're going to try to portray this in Kerry's and Rangel's twisted terms, as an army where even though you volunteer, you're being oppressed. I don't think you could dishonor the troops more than that. Here's what they're really about -

"And if I gotta die for my country, I will."

Somebody gets it. And it isn't AP.

[armymarinemom]

Leftist goons more likely to become journalist.

[quantim]

[Sir Gawain]

the death rate per million population aged 18 to 54 was 60 percent higher for soldiers from rural areas compared with those from urban areas or the suburbs.

Does this assume an equal number of enlistments from each area type? I wouldn't think that would hold true. Maybe more rural soldiers are dying because there are more rural soldiers in the military.

[fat city]

AP using New Hampshire data to tell a story about Kansas soldiers. Journalism 2006.

[Thunder90]

Here is the liberal's interpretation: "Rednecks die more in Iraq because they are right winged God fearing gun toting nationalist warmongering conservatives....blah blah blah.."

My interperatation-Rural area people are more likely to take infantry and other high-risk positions within the military than their suburban or urban counterparts.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Anybody ever heard of a "GRIT"???

[madison10]

So is the AP saying only "hicks" are willing to die for their nation? Are they saying there are more troops from rural portions of the country who are too naive to say "no" to the recruiter?

Are they saying the best and the brightest from all of America's classes and races from flyover country are willing to fight, but the geniuses on the left and right coasts are too sophisicated, Liberal, brainwashed to deal with reality?

C'mon, AP, spit it out.

[KeyLargo]

More Rangle and Kerry crap.

This is evidence though that service to our country is very important to those living in the heartland.

[Eagle Eye]

Interesting that those that actually fight the WOT in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their families, are the most ardent supporters of the war.

Those that would never dream of wearing the uniform are the most opposed.

I guess it is like the VN draft era in that the draft protesters were not concerned with anything more than their own hides.

[VeniVidiVici]

I thought Jackson, Sharpton and Rangel were whining that the deaths were occurring disproportionately among Urban-Americans?

[CholeraJoe]

"Oh, Maaaatha. You know it's always THOSE kind of people who are too stupid to get into Haaaavaad who end up in the military. Pass the Brie and the Chaaaadonnay, would you?"