The highest attended events each year are the ones held in the Central
Division. Peru Tour would have 400 entrants if we did not put a cap on
the event.
paula whitney
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From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of James Gunn-Wilkinson
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 2:24 PM
To: 'Rick Cone'; Rex Tener; bthatch@juno.com; autox@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: SCCA national office move
The question of membership stats is one for the home office. My guess would
be (based on attendance size at tour events) that the West has more active
members.
Take a look at the San Diego tour. At no other event were there close to
the same number of participants.
I could care less where the offices are.
My vote would be to have Nationals at a different location every year -- one
year in the East, one year near San Francisco.
James Gunn-Wilkinson
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Cone [mailto:rickcone@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 11:18 AM
To: Rex Tener; bthatch@juno.com; autox@autox.team.net
Cc: Rex Tener
Subject: Re: SCCA national office move
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.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rex Tener" <rex_tener@yahoo.com>
To: <bthatch@juno.com>; <autox@autox.team.net>
Cc: "Rex Tener" <rex_tener@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: SCCA national office move
> At 12:35 PM 8/16/2001 -0400, bthatch@juno.com wrote:
> >Rocky makes the point about geographic center of the nation as being
> >important. Take a look at the map again, folks. Birmingham is closer to
> >the center than most people think (almost due south of Chicago). It's
> >south so the weather is good, and is a LOT closer to the population
> >centers of this country than Denver or Topeka.
>
> Ben, you have to be joking! Birmingham in the center??? Yahoo maps shows
> it being 2300 miles to Birmhingham, 1852 miles to Topeka, and 1785 miles
to
> Dallas from the heart of the San Francisco region.
>
> I don't care where the SCCA HQ is located, but moving the location of the
> Solo II Nationals any further from the West Coast is a huge mistake.
>
> Rex Tener
> rex_tener@yahoo.com
>
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