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  • The Rural War

    07/20/2005 1:08:09 PM PDT · by neverdem · 67 replies · 2,451+ views
    NY Times ^ | July 20, 2005 | ROBERT CUSHING and BILL BISHOP
    WHICH American communities pay the highest price for the war in Iraq? A look at the demographics of soldiers killed reveals that Iraq is not the war of any one race or region. Rather, it is rural America's war. Altogether, a nearly equal percentage of Americans aged 18 to 54 live in counties with a million or more inhabitants as live in counties of 100,000 or fewer. And yet, of the soldiers who have died in Iraq, 342 came from densely populated counties while 536 came from smaller ones. Derived from Pentagon and census data, this chart shows the Iraqi...