The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Alex]

Oh and just for the record, Mr. Rangel's issue is that minorities compromise more than 30% of the military and he says:

Since minorities make up about 30% of the population in general I assume this wouldn't be a bad thing. I assume it is meant that 30% of the military is black.

Taking a quick look into it, what is interesting to me is that while blacks are wildly overrepresented it looks like (if Fort Bragg is a reasonable sampling) whites are not particularly underrepresnted. 58% of Fort Bragg is white which is about in line with the general population (about 60%). So it looks like while one minority is way over represented in the army other minorities are way under represented.

Interesting. I will have to remember to look into whether Bragg is representative.