Confirming what we already knew. . .

From Lasso entry, Texas Hispanics, rural America still disproportionately represented among soldiers killed in Iraq:

This raises a larger moral question, of course: Is it right that America depends on an armed forces where a large number of the troops are forced into the service by unequal opportunities in civilian life? The country sends these young men and women to fight for equality in the Middle East, but that equality is missing here at home.