a map of death

[donsu]

on edit: don't know what that means

try this:

[Jed Dilligan]

1. For comparison's sake: census pop. density:

[BadgerKid]

4. ...superposed on fatality map

Larger image linked at img513.imageshack.us/img513/7742/iraqmapqs7.png

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. Proportions of state populations killed would be most convincing

http://icasualties.org/oif/Details.aspx has the State of origin for each fatality , and state populations are somewhere on http://www.census.gov .

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. Looks like once again,

Blue states are paying the higher price.

[Hosnon]

3. I think it has more to do with population density (see chart in post #1).

But yes, the blue states are sacrificing more if you look at the hard numbers. Proportionately (population), it seems as though it is even across the board.

[Jed Dilligan]

7. Red and blue are also correlated

to population density:

[ProgressiveEconomist]

5. The source of your chart is a very interesting site:

http://icasualties.org/oif/ has a list of US casualties by name and analyses by ethnicity and other characteristics, as well as by geocode.