America’s Vietnam casualties: Victims of a class war?

America’s Vietnam casualties: Victims of a class war?

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Article ID: iaor19931067
Country: United States
Volume: 40
Issue: 5
Start Page Number: 856
End Page Number: 866
Publication Date: Sep 1992
Journal: Operations Research
Authors: , ,
Keywords: personnel & manpower planning, statistics: general
Abstract:

Analysis of data about the 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam implies that affluent U.S. communities had only marginally lower casualty rates than the nation as a whole. Poor communities had only marginally higher rates. Data about the residential addresses of war casualties suggest that, within both large heterogeneous cities and wealthy suburbs, there was little relationship between neighbourhood incomes and per capita Vietnam death rates. Such outcomes call into question a widespread belief that continues to influence U.S. policy discussions, namely, that American war deaths in Vietnam were overwhelmingly concentrated among the poor and working class.

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