Date: Mon, 27 Feb 95 16:58 PST
From: Clayton_Cramer@optilink.dsccc.com
To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com
Subject: RESEARCH: correlations of CCW issuance rates vs. race


I ran the 1990 census data for race by county against 1990 CCW issuance rates
by county.  The results were unsurprising.  The correlations were:

white % of county: 0.46
black % of county: -0.47
Hispanic % of county: -0.43
Asian & Pacific Islander % of county: -0.40

The surprise was that American Indian % of county had 0.36 corelation with
CCW issuance.

Before getting too excited, and running off to use these numbers, it is
entirely possible that these correlations simply reflect the heavily urbanized
nature of blacks and Asians in California.  That would also explain the 
strong positive correlation of American Indians to CCW issuance.  I will
be grinding through all the available 1990 census data numbers against 
CCW issuance and see if these apparently racist correlations reflect some
underlying variable, such as rurality of county.

Stay tuned.