[ttdi]

I'm really surprised by how they didn't mention one of the most striking results from the data: Latinos on OKCupid are much more likely to have the word "stationed" in their profile than other demographics. Based on this, it looks like the military contains a large proportion of Latinos ("stationed in [location]"). What are the demographics of the military versus the general population?

[oiuygtfrtghyju]

According to http://www.armyg1.army.mil/HR/docs/demographics/FY05%20Army%...

Army: White 63.9%, Black 19.0%, Hispanic 10.3%, Asian 3.8%

USA: White 75%, Black 12%, Hispanic 15%, Asian 4%

So hispanic is underrepresented in the army and black over represented - of course you would have to balance these by age profile for each group and also consider US overseas territories that can join the army.

[haroldp]

Maybe we looked at the wrong service, since the latino profile also mentioned "marines":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HispanicMilitary.jpg

[sesqu]

According to this 2007 report on marines: http://www.cna.org/documents/D0016910.A1.pdf

Young blacks became underrepresented after the Iraq wars, but high NCO ranks are still heavily overrepresented. Conversely, marine accessions are on the rise for young hispanics, and they are now slightly overrepresented. High NCO ranks are underrepresented, but diminishingly so.

So this is definitely a trend, but not a major one. Those mentions may have more to do with what contributes to the trend than be caused by it.

[oiuygtfrtghyju]

Sorry not American - didn't realize army didn't include marines.