BS FROM TS

Last night, Tammy the Shrill claimed that the South had more deaths in Iraq than any part of the country. (This factoid was wrapped up in an attack on Hilary Clinton) I thought this might be wrong so I went to Iraq Coalition Casualties Count and found a state-by-state breakdown.

Although it is no surprise, TS is wrong.

Here are the numbers to date (deaths, total population):

Alabama 52 4,599,030
Arkansas 40 2,810,872
Florida 130 18,089,888
Georgia 90 9,363,941
Louisiana 71 4,287,768
Mississippi 40 2,910,540
South Carolina 42 4,321,249
Tennessee 68 6,038,803
TOTALS 533 52,422,091


TOTAL AMERICAN DEATHS: 3143

So, the South accounts for about 1/6th of all American deaths. In fact, 5 Northern states have more deaths than the entire South:

New York 143 19,306,183
Pennsylvania 151 12,440,621
Michigan 124 10,095,643
Illinois 117 12,831,970
Ohio 138 11,478,006


TOTALS 673 66,152,423


The Northern states here do have more people than the Southern states, 66,152,423 versus 52,422,091, so we need to correct for total population. After dividing the deaths by the population and multiplying by 100,000 we find that the RATE of the 5 Northern states exceeeds that of the 8 Southern states, 1.017347 versus 1.016747. It's not much of a difference but this minor exercise shows once again that the wingnuts lie easily and often.