re: Tell me, is my view on the draft really THAT crazy?

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What does the race and socio-economic status of a person's parents have to do with intelligence?

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There is no correlation with race but there certainly is with socioeconomic status.

There is this perception propogated by folks like Charlie Rangel out there that we are sending poor and marginalized minority kids to do our fighting and dying in these wars, when in fact, the exact opposite is true. Both statistically and anecdotally the combat arms branches of the Army and Marines have an over-representation of middle class white kids.