On this week of Memorial Day, I wanted to highlight a project called Map the Fallen that plots the hometowns of each of the U.S. service members who have died in Iraq or Afghanistan, as well as the locations were they died. On one hand, I don’t think a point on a map does a [...]
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Where Do Military Recruits Come From?
Dante Chinni at the Patchwork Nation blog has a new map up that busts three prominent myths about where our military recruits come from:
Myth 1: The Military is Over-Represented by Southerners: In his fascinating book, “Born Fighting,” Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) consistently returns to the themes that the Scots-Irish who represent Jacksonian American and Appalachia [...]
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