I haven't been involved with the GSDCA for a dozen years, but the way I remembered it was East, Central, and West to make shows available across the country.
Regarding the Western Region, don't confuse regions with East and West. Normally when referring to a region, you would also have an eastern and a central region, so western region wasn't intended to include everything west. There would obviously be a difference between what states would be included when saying east vs. west vs dividing the country into regions.
The "fairest" way to divide the country to give equal opportunities for everyone would be to divide the country by population.
The federal government splits the county into four regions:The Northeast region includes Conn., Maine, Mass., N.H., N.J., N.Y., Pa., R.I., and Vt. 51 million residents
The South includes Ala., Ark., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Ky., La., Md., Miss., N.C., Okla., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., and W.Va.. 85 million residents
The Midwest includes Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Mich., Minn., Mo., Neb., N.D., Ohio, S.D., and Wis. 59 million residents
The West includes Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Hawaii, Idaho, Mont., Nev., N.M., Ore., Utah, Wash., and Wyo. 53 million residents
Things could probably be "evened out" by shifting Texas to the west and Oklahoma to the midwest, taking them away from the south.
That method gives us four regions and I would be as happy with three regions as I remember it, but still think it is more appropriate to divide it by population vs. mileage.
It also seems more fair to have each of the three regions choose the locations vs. a handful of people from the board. Seems the GSD clubs in each region could appoint a representative from their club and then the reps from each region would meet via email and discuss it. Within a region they would trade off clubs and of course the GSDCA board or committee would have to give their final blessing. I remember when our MSP club was requesting a national the GSDCA committee came out to review the location, accommodations, etc. There have been some locations I am really surprised were given the nod due to horrible conditions like open buildings and mud everywhere.
On 1/26/2015 8:19 AM, Theresa-GSD Stolz (Redacted sender scenecrest.geo@xxxxxxxxx for DMARC) wrote:
In school we were taught New England, Midwest, South and North and it is only the GSDCA that is using west and east deciding on shows. :-) St Louis, MO they always referred to it as the Gateway to the West and built the Arch as the symbol to represent it. Regardless of where the GSDCA Nationals are held there will always be someone dissatisfied. “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.” ― John Lydgate Theresa scenecrest.geo@xxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------- Ken Tank <tanksr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:"TheWest region, western U.S., mostly west of the Great Plains and including, by federal government definition, Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming." - Encyclopedia Britannica But the spirit of this is to best serve the members, so I think we need to look further (after we give geography lessons ;-)) and look at where the membership in the west resides. Then try to pick a good spot somewhere in the middle that is near (no more than 1 hr dirve) a major airport. KenOn Sun, Jan 25, 2015at 12:06 PM, Theresa-GSD Stolz <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I would think any state west of the marker is west and anything east of it is east.http://clui.org/ludb/site/geographic-center-50-united-states-america Theresa scenecrest.geo@xxxxxxxxx=========================================================================POST is Copyrighted 2015. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of both the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Each Author is responsible for the content of his/her post. This group and its administrators are not responsible for the comments or opinions expressed in any post. POSTS CANNOT BE USED IN A COURT OF LAW. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org SUBSCRIPTION: http://showgsd.org/mail.html NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ =========================================================================
