So ARE we Southwest-dominated?
Thank goodness there's a list rule asking you to sign with your
neighborhood as well as name. It allowed me to do a little research on
where our posters live in the city. (A reminder: please sign with
neighborhood, not ward or SD # if you can.)
A disclaimer: I can't tell where ALL members live - if you are a
lurker, your location is invisible, too. However, we'll assume posters
reflect overall membership.
To compile data, I chose, arbitrarily, the first 10 days of Jan., Feb.
and March 2000...742 posts in all! I counted posts, not individuals, but
that's because it reflects the actual conversation.
To my surprise, we are NOT southwest-dominated....no matter how you draw
the map. Here are two ways of figuring it - neighborhood specific
results follow.
If you split the city into 5 parts (SE includes the U-area and Downtown
includes the neighborhoods inside the Mississippi-35W-94 freeway ring),
posts break down like this:
Posts List% Pop%
SE 253 38.9 38.2
SW 222 34.1 27.5
DT 67 10.3 5.5
NE 59 9.1 10.7
N 50 7.7 18.2
With the exception of the SW and N sections, list posts reflect the
city's population closely. SW has about a third more posts than
expected, N side about half. But that's a far smaller disparity than I
expected.
Or, if you split the city into quadrants by 35W and the Mississippi.
Posts List% Pop%
SW 254 38.5 31.2
SE 223 33.8 33.1
NE 101 15.3 15.9
N 73 11.0 19.8
The disparities shrink: SW has about a quarter more posts than by
population, while the north side has about 40 percent fewer.
The neighborhood results were extremely satisfying. 63 of the city's 80
neighborhoods were represented in 30 days of posting! As Loki suggests,
we have a lot of Central here, although my neighborhood, Kingfield, is
the champ (thanks to me, Ken Avidor, the Manns, Steve Brandt, and
others.) The big neighborhood and communities (4-neighborhood Longfellow
and NENA) tended to rise to the top. The * indicates one person is
responsible for all neighborhood posts.
SW - Kingfield, 59
SE - Central, 49
SE - Phillips, 49
SW - Whittier, 36
SE - Longfellow Community, 35
DT - Loring Park, 30
SW - Linden Hills, 26
SE - Seward, 25
SW - Lyndale, 25
SE - Prospect Park, 22
SW - East Harriet, 21
SE - Powderhorn, 17
DT - Downtown West, 16
NE - Marshall Terrace, 15*
N - Near North, 15
SE - Standish-Ericsson, 14
NE - St. Anthony West, 14
N - Cleveland, 13
DT - Nicollet Island-E. Bank, 12
SE - NENA, 12
SW - Lynnhurst, 11
SW - Steven's Square, 11
SW - Fulton, 10
N - Shingle Creek, 9*
SE - Cedar-Riverside, 8
SE - Bancroft, 8
SE - Marcy Holmes, 8
DT - North Loop, 7*
NE- Waite Park, 7
NE - Windom Park, 7
NE - Sheridan, 6
SE - Corcoran, 6
NE - Como, 5*
SW - Lowry Hill, 4
SW - Kenny, 4*
SW - Lowry Hill East, 4
NE - Logan Park, 4*
N- Willard-Hay, 3*
SE - Bryant, 3
SW - Tangletown, 3
SW - Armitage, 3*
N - Folwell, 3
SW - CIDNA, 2
DT - Elliot Park, 2*
SW - West Calhoun, 2*
SW - CARAG, 2
N- Hawthorne, 2
N- Lind-Bohannan, 2*
N- Harrison, 2
SE - Field, 2
SW - Windom, 2*
SE - Diamond Lake, 1*
N - Camden, 1*
SW - East Calhoun, 1*
NE - St. Anthony East, 1*
SW - Kenwood, 1*
St. Paul & environs, 58
West Metro, 15
Rest of U.S., 9*
Australia, 1
Also, 45 people posted on DQ in the first seven days....lots of
first-time posters, too.
David Brauer
List manager
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