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2. Lawrence Baskir and William Strauss, Chance and Circumstance (New York: Knopf, 1978).

3. Christian Appy, Working-class War (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).

4. Russell Weigley, "Putting the Poor in Uniform," New York Times Book Review (11 April 1993): 12.

5. Arnold Barnett, Timothy Stanley, and Michael Shore, "America's Vietnam Casualties: Victims of a Class War?" Operations Research 40, 5 (September-October 1992): 856-66.

6. James Fallows, "Low-Class Conclusions," The Atlantic 271, 4 (April 1993): 38-44.

7. Arnold Barnett and Timothy Stanley, "In his review....... The Atlantic 272, 2 (August 1993): 11-12.

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10. World Almanac and Book of Facts 1991 (New York: Pharos Books, 1990): 793.

11. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1992 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992). Table 17 shows the age category 1844 years old containing 12% black and 83% white in 1980, and 12% black and 79% white in 1990; these were averaged into the percentages shown in my Table 1, Education levels are shown in Table 221 for the age category 35-44 years old (39 million people) in 1991.

12. World Almanac, 787.

13. Fallows, "Low-Class Conclusions," 42.

Was Vietnam a Class War?

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