I don't get why Hispanic is ALWAYS broken out from other races? Has there been a recent subtyping of that race or something?

It helps the City of Portland figure out which streets to rename.

Hispanic and Latino aren't really races but a group of many races that can trace some or all of their ancestry back to the former Spanish empire...

But.. it gets tricky.. because in the US it has become a politically correct term for a immigrant or immigrant family who came from Latin America to the US at some point, still embrace the Latin American culture, and are usually, but not always, brown skin.

Make sense?

That big increase in minorities goes a long way to explain Trimet's ridership staying stable instead of decreasing.

According to Alan Pisarski ,the typical immigrant transportation patterns are:
1. Use transit when newly arrived.
2. Car pool when one of their group is able to afford a car.
3. Get a car as soon as able to afford.
4. Quit using slow, inconvenient transit (my comment)

It just makes sense - one can drive the average car over 20 miles for the cost of a Trimet fare, so most trips are cheaper by car and will be until gas gets over $10/gal at which time few will need to travel due to chaos.

Cost of driving vs transit: http://www.portlandfacts.com/cost_of_transit_&_cars.html

Thanks
JK

That big increase in minorities goes a long way to explain Trimet's ridership staying stable instead of decreasing.

No, ridership's been up and down the past 2 years. Not stable at all, in fact. See Trimet's web site for ridership reports.

According to Alan Pisarski ,the typical immigrant transportation patterns are:

No, per capita car ownership has *increased* in Oregon in the past decade, especially in Portland.

Also, the "big increase in minorities" happened mainly in suburban and small cities, with very little public transit. That means Portland wasn't inundated with hispanic people, JK.

After pushing lower income folk out to places like Rockwood along the ghetto creating Max line developments, Mayor Adams now gives some cityhall spin on concern for the disadvantage by creating an Office of Equality. Like this city needs a new bureaucracy.

Back to the latest updates on the impending snow devastation.

If you've been down to Canby, etc, recently, you realize that that's Sureños' territory now. Catching the gang tags in rural Oregon is always a peculiar, but omnipresent, site.

(Heck, I even saw a bank teller the other day with Sureños' tats... 3 dots on web of his hand.)