SoCal 2005 (Whose Coming?)

[Rick TYler]

Originally Posted by Rick TYler

Time to move the regional to the Anaheim Convention Center...

Originally Posted by ChrisH

The Regional committee has tried, but FIRST has this thing about competitions being in "diverse" neighborhoods.

From the US Census, for the city of Anaheim, total population 328,014:

Hispanic or Latino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153,374
White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179,627
Black or African American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,735
American Indian and Alaska Native . . . . . . . . . . . 3,041
Asian Indian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,986
Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,780
Filipino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,303
Japanese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,346
Korean. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,160
Vietnamese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,025
Other Asian 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,711
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. . . . 1,393
Native Hawaiian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Guamanian or Chamorro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Samoan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690
Other Pacific Islander 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Some other race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,427
Two or more races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,480

The census racial data are confusing because they count "Hispanic and Latino" separately. For example, "White" and "Hispanic or Latino" are not mutually exclusive. This means that if you add up the racial totals above, they do not equal the total population, because, for example, a person can be both White and Hispanic.

In any event, it looks like a pretty darn diverse city to me. And you can walk from your hotel to the arena without armed guards.