Using your logic,
If one year its in San Fran, then the next it should be in Washington DC.
Not very practical to stick it on the coasts. Perhaps a Wendover/Birmingham
rotation. But then the NEDIV will want one close by...
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Gunn-Wilkinson" <jgunn@genoptix.com>
To: "'Rick Cone'" <rickcone@bellsouth.net>; "Rex Tener"
<rex_tener@yahoo.com>; <bthatch@juno.com>; <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 3:23 PM
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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