Glad I got your attention with the title. I don't believe it, but other people sure sound like they do. Here's something my best friend and I were talking about tonight - what if Statesboro were Hinesville?
I mean, they've both got large populations of transient folks. Students are here for a few years to get an education, soliders are in Hinesville for a few years (or months) to defend the country. Students move away when they transfer, flunk out, graduate and get a job, or stay in Statesboro. Soldiers move away when they're deployed, or leave service, or stay in Hinesville.
Students live in dormitories and apartments and houses. Soldiers live in barracks and apartments and houses.
There are a whole lot of students from 18-24. There are a whole lot of soldiers from 18-24.
(Forgive me for blanket generalizations) Students sometimes like to drink and raise hell. Soldiers like to drink and raise hell.
So, Nancy Waters - going by your arguments to keep students from voting, would you be willing to also concede that soldiers don't have the right to vote?
Keeping students from exercising their democratic rights where they live sounds pretty unpatriotic on its own, but if you extend your arguments to their logical conclusion, it's downright un-American.
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