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"Alan Earle" <ALEARLE@prodigy.net> wrote:


>fatelvis wrote in message ...
>I found something interesting last week. The group Zero Population
>Growth (ZPG) had rated cities as to being Kid Friendly.

 I found the same study.




>I'm sure ZPG is trying as hard as they can to be as politically correct
>as they can, but somebody should tell them the facts.


>I did some research on the Independent Cities Rankings
>http://www.zpg.org/kidfriendlycities/independentranking.html

>The Independent Cities category consists of cities with populations
>of more than 100,000, which  were neither Major Cities nor
>Suburbs/Outer Cities. Because there is no city with a population
>of 100,000 or more in Delaware,  Maine, Montana, North Dakota,
>Vermont, Wyoming and West Virginia, we included  the largest city
>in these states. West Virginia and Wyoming have two cities with
>nearly the same population, so we have included both cities. Pueblo,
>Colorado's population was added because its population was too near our
>cut-off to be excluded. More than 25 million people live in these 112
>cities. The average city is about 229,000--a bit larger than Rochester,
>NY and smaller than Stockton, CA.

>http://www.zpg.org/kidfriendlycities/independentcities.html

>I looked at the A category and the F category.
>Using http://www.mit.edu:8001/geo I found the
>counties of the independent cities. Then using
>http://govinfo.library.orst.edu/pe-stateis.html
>I obtained 1997 Demographics for these counties
>(1996 population statistics were used in the rankings).
>I used a calculator  to get the percentages and totals.
>Here are my findings:

>To reiterate:
>On the A list:
>Average White percentage = 87.2%
>Average Black percentage = 1.7%

>On the F list:
>The Average Percent White population is 56.8%
>The Average Percent Black population is 31.6%

>It seems apparent that as a White population decreases and a Black
>population increases, cities become more Kid UNfriendly!

>14 words!

 There's an old saying: "Correlation does not prove causation."

 The causation factor might be poverty, which might be more common
 in areas with high concentrations of blacks.

 I wonder what the ZPG people would say if they read your analysis.
 Why don't you send it to them?   ==>  info@zpg.org




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