Rick, Rick, stirring the pot again, are you? I hope you don't plan to run
any events on the West Coast anytime soon <grin>.
Of course, next we'll hear how San Francisco region nails down the
highest number of championships each year so we should all be closer.
However, you do make an excellent point. Road racing doesn't seem to mind
with their championhips being held in Atlanta for years and now not being
very far from Evansville in Ohio.
Ben
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:17:39 -0400 "Rick Cone" <rickcone@bellsouth.net>
writes:
> 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.
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