On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Rick Cone wrote:
> I am afraid Rex, it may be you joking, statistically anyway.
>
> According to the most recent US Census...
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cenpop/cntpop2k.html
>
> The median center of population in the US is........... Evansville, IN! Ok
> not quite but it is the next big city to the center.
>
> Due south of Evansville.... BIRMINGHAM AL....
>
> So using your numbers... If the offices were moved to the middle of the
> country, in terms of population) then you would have to drive 1852 (your
> number) + 342 (yahoo maps, Evansville to Topeka) for a total of 2194 miles.
> So it would be another 100 miles to get to Birmingham.
>
> IF we move the location of the Solo2 Nationals, we should do it based upon
> the geographic center of our membership. And I would contend if you
> compared the geographics of the SCCA and the US Population as a whole the
> center would move south, and east. Why? It would move south because we are
> able to race close to year round, and our member to population rates will be
> higher. (How many SCCA members are there that live/work in Manhattan? I
> would bet that Atlanta being a city 1/5 the size has more members then New
> York City... see what I mean? To further illustrate, 6 of the SCCA's area
> is East of the Mississippi.
>
> You could make a point that those of us east of Topeka, subsidizes those
> coming from the west.
>
> I'm all for Solo 2 Nationals being centrally located, or in the central part
> of the country. But it should be based on where the membership lives.
It's better form to put your assumptions at the beginning of your argument
rather than the end. Basing the location near the population center
(of SCCA membership, which may not be the same thing as the general
population) is most efficient in terms of total travel miles.
The problem with basing location on where the membership lives is that it
is much less of a hardship, individually, for all the east coast people to
drive an additional two hundred miles than it is for any of the west coast
people to drive an additional 1000-1500 miles. As I posted following Mark
Sirota's comment on population center, "efficient" doesn't mean "fair".
KeS
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