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While this article is just a rewrite of a similar one from today's NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/national-parks-try-to-appeal-to-minorities.html htt
by clarkm 13y ago
While this article is just a rewrite of a similar one from today's NYT (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/national-parks-try-to-appeal-to-minorities.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/national-parks-try-to-a...), I appreciate that it contains some additional data, even though it doesn't relate specifically to National Park visits.
The NYT article only states that "about one in five visitors to a national park site is nonwhite... and only about 1 in 10 is Hispanic", which definitely points to Hispanics being underrepresented, since they make up 16.3% of the general population. But they don't include any more specifics, which makes me think the discrepancy couldn't be that big.
- georgeoliver 13y agoKeeping in mind that non-Hispanic/Latino whites are about 60% of the US population, when this article notes that "the Outdoor Industry Association [...] own nonprofit organization, [the] Outdoor Foundation, shows underwhelming diversity. Its 2013 outdoor participation report notes that last year, 70 percent of participants were white.", it's hard for me to take the rest of this article seriously.