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Huh??? UCLA Center Studies Latino Commuters
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 If you're Latino, you're more likely to be a thrifty, environmentally-friendly commuter than if you're white, concludes an odd new study from UCLA.
UCLA's Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture found that Latino recent immigrants are seven times more likely to ride buses or trains to work, and five times more likely to carpool than white commuters.
The study's author uses the findings to generally pat Latinos on the back for being good citizens, but Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa - a big public-transit booster - puts a much blunter no/duh point on it: "Many of them don't have cars."
I'm not sure what the purpose of this study was, but the AP story makes a few interesting observations:
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The findings contradict expectations that the increase in the state's Hispanic population would lead to a corresponding increase in traffic congestion, said professor David Hayes-Bautista, who conducted the study based on 2000 Census data.
"They're not burdening the system the way the post-World War II, largely Midwestern in-migrants burdened the system," said Hayes-Bautista, who directs UCLA's Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture.
The study did not look at other groups such as blacks and Asians, but whites and Hispanics are the two largest in the state. The study also did not look at the reasons for the commuting patterns, although income appeared to be a large factor. Again - why was this study done - and done comparing Latinos only to whites, when Asians and blacks are also statistically significant parts of L.A.'s population?
Their fusty old web site doesn't offer many clues. The report isn't even posted there yet. Sorry, I'm just not getting this from the news reports ...
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - 11:10 AM
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