Can you name the Metro Areas of the United States that are hom to the most Americans of Mexican blood? by purplebackpack89

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American Metro Areas w/Most Mexicans Quiz

by purplebackpack89

Created Sep 12, 2010 in Geography
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	chriskotx:	Sep 13th, 2010 at 04:33 GMT	8 points
	You're meaning persons of Mexican decent, right? I doubt if 6 million people from Mexico live in L.A.

	Burtdoggy:	Sep 13th, 2010 at 05:02 GMT	5 points
	Your link shows figures from the "Los Angeles - Long Beach - Riverside Statistical Area". That is a statistical area, not a metropolitan area. Riverside is 60 miles east of Los Angeles, and is located in Riverside County (unlike Long Beach, which IS in Los Angeles County). Riverside is not considered part of the L.A. Metro area - it belongs to the "Riverside - San Bernardino - Ontario" metropolitan area. Thus, your figures are a bit off. And, as chriskotx stated, you may want to change the quiz name from "Mexicans" to "Mexican descent". A person born in Mexico is considered "Mexican" - people of Mexican heritage born in the United States are "Mexican-American" or "Americans of Mexican descent".

	idpsych:	Sep 13th, 2010 at 05:11 GMT	2 points
	This would be more interesting if it was a percentage of the population. Would Chicago still be so high?

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	ckrubin:	Sep 13th, 2010 at 05:59 GMT	7 points
	There's no "pretty much" part of a metro area. It's a census-defined thing.

	Onno:	Sep 13th, 2010 at 08:17 GMT	3 points
	While Riverside and San Bernardino may be relatively close to LA, the CSA contains their entire counties (also including the Palm Springs and Victorville areas). If county borders were different, Riverside might have been part of the MSA, but it is the way it is.

	LinuxLinus:	Sep 13th, 2010 at 13:20 GMT	1 point
	Burtdoggy is technically correct, but the I've always found the idea that Riverside-San Bernardino was somehow separate from LA frankly absurd. There's no geographic break, people do commute from Riverside to LA, and those people wouldn't be there unless LA was there.

	purplebackpack89:	Sep 13th, 2010 at 17:48 GMT	-1 points
	since just LA/OC is ubsurd, that's why I'm using the combined statistical areas, rather than the MSAs. Note that either way, LA is still first going away. Do you think I should shorten the time?

	AmblingPoodle:	Sep 14th, 2010 at 00:36 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz if you give a mention about using CMSAs in the game comments. It took me a long time to get San Francisco because I knew 1.1M was too much. I didn't think about it being combined with San Jose. And the time could go to 1 minute with no harm done.

	jaymc:	Sep 14th, 2010 at 00:36 GMT	2 points
	Was surprised that Denver wasn't on the list, though it looks like it's 10th with 410,953. You might want to include it, since it's one of the few metro areas outside of border states with a significant Mexican-American population.

	CoolBeans:	Sep 14th, 2010 at 02:35 GMT	-1 points
	Mexican blood? Are you serious?

	rzb333:	Sep 14th, 2010 at 02:56 GMT	2 points
	you said hom instead of home...

	TheBigE1980:	Sep 14th, 2010 at 05:47 GMT	2 points
	I'm glad you used the CMSAs. I have always thought that the split of LA from Riverside and the split of San Francisco/Oakland and San Jose was absurd.

	purplebackpack89:	Sep 16th, 2010 at 05:49 GMT	2 points
	jaymc: When you get to the 400,000 threshold, you have to consider high % but medium-sized population like fresno and brownsville

	waterjoe:	Sep 17th, 2010 at 18:29 GMT	3 points
	Those people would not be there (Riverside) unless LA was there? Riverside and San Bernardino go back to before LA became a major city. The cities and surrounding communities grew into each other. I lived in Riverside and San Bernardino areas for thirty years and rarely met someone who commuted to Los Angeles.