This spreadsheet identifies "black counties" versus "white".
A "black county" has a black population ratio at or above the state average of 6.7% black.
It then determines your "odds" of obtaining CCW based on which type of county you live in.
County name	County pop	Black %	Latino %	County CCWs
Alameda	1,443,741	14.90%	19.00%	125	Black County
Alpine	1,208	0.60%	7.80%	38
Amador	35,100	3.90%	8.90%	763
Butte	203,171	1.40%	10.50%	895
Calaveras	40,554	0.70%	6.80%	561
Colusa	18,804	0.50%	46.50%	234
Contra Costa	948,816	9.40%	17.70%	187	Black County
Del Norte	27,507	4.30%	13.90%	125
El Dorado	156,299	0.50%	9.30%	1,244
Fresno	799,407	5.30%	44.00%	2,454
Glenn	26,453	0.60%	29.60%	398
Humboldt	126,518	0.90%	6.50%	977
Imperial	142,361	4.00%	72.20%	413
Inyo	17,945	0.20%	12.60%	177
Kern	661,645	6.00%	38.40%	4,004	See notes
Kings	129,461	8.30%	43.60%	291	Black County
Lake	58,309	2.10%	11.40%	202
Lassen	33,828	8.80%	13.80%	350	Black County
Los Angeles	9,519,338	9.80%	44.60%	1,261	Black County
Madera	123,109	4.10%	44.30%	1,138
Marin	247,289	2.90%	11.10%	38
Mariposa	17,130	0.70%	7.80%	239
Mendocino	86,265	0.60%	16.50%	207
Merced	210,554	3.80%	45.30%	626
Modoc	9,449	0.70%	11.50%	279
Mono	12,853	0.50%	17.70%	69
Monterey	401,762	3.70%	46.80%	62
Napa	124,279	1.30%	23.70%	465
Nevada	92,033	0.30%	5.70%	589
Orange	2,846,289	1.70%	30.80%	304
Placer	248,399	0.80%	9.70%	1,051
Plumas	20,824	0.60%	5.70%	338
Riverside	1,545,387	6.20%	36.20%	454
Sacramento	1,223,499	10.00%	16.00%	1,485	Black County
San Benito	53,234	1.10%	47.90%	22
San Bernardino	1,709,434	9.10%	39.20%	2,113	Black County
San Diego	2,813,833	5.70%	26.70%	1,828
San Francisco	776,733	7.80%	14.10%	8	Black County
San Joaquin	563,598	6.70%	30.50%	488	Black County
San Luis Obispo	246,681	2.00%	16.30%	441
San Mateo	707,161	3.50%	21.90%	228
Santa Barbara	399,347	2.30%	34.20%	68
Santa Clara	1,682,585	2.80%	24.00%	124
Santa Cruz	255,602	1.00%	26.80%	29
Shasta	163,256	0.80%	5.50%	3,369
Sierra	3,555	0.20%	6.00%	106
Siskiyou	44,301	1.30%	7.60%	536
Solano	394,542	14.90%	17.60%	65	Black County
Sonoma	458,614	1.40%	17.30%	135
Stanislaus	446,997	2.60%	31.70%	420
Sutter	78,930	1.90%	22.20%	519
Tehama	56,039	0.60%	15.80%	959
Trinity	13,022	0.40%	4.00%	373
Tulare	368,021	1.60%	50.80%	2,976
Tuolumne	54,501	2.10%	8.20%	918
Ventura	753,197	1.90%	33.40%	320
Yolo	168,660	2.00%	25.90%	350
Yuba	60,219	3.20%	17.40%	526
White-county pop total (all races in those counties)				17,128,658
Black-county pop total (all races in those counties)				16,742,990
		Total state population		33,871,648
		Total CCWs statewide		38,964
		"White county" CCWs		32,591
		"Black County" CCWs		6,373
There is one permitholder for every				869.31	California residents
There is one white-county permitholder for every				525.56	white-county residents
There is one black-county permitholder for every				2,627.18	black-county residents
Your "raw odds" of having a CCW is			5	times higher in a "white county"!!!
ALL CCW NUMBERS AS OF 1997 (California DOJ statistics)
Census data per 2000 US census - see also: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/maps/california_map.html
NOTES: 2001 CCW numbers are coming soon from Cal-DOJ, and will be used to update this.
I also have the names of every permitholder coming from DOJ, at which point I'll do
a "last name analysis" (looking for "Santiagos" and such) to determine the rate of discrimination
in the rural counties. The Fresno Bee newspaper did that in 1995 for their county, finding a 3%
Latino issuance rate out of thousands of permits, in a county that's 45% Hispanic per Census data.
It's a good bet Fresno isn't the only such case, which would suggest that there's "black racism" and.
"Latino racism" happening at the same time, but in somewhat different "patterns".
KERN COUNTY: it looks like Kern County might be a partial anomaly in that it has just a hair under
the cutoff black percentage, and has a LOT of permits. However, while the Sheriff is handling
CCW on a mostly "shall-issue basis", I have been told by Bakersfield city residents that the
Sheriff won't issue to them. And the city PD is stingy. Bakersfield is 9% black and has a population
of 247,000. That alone will cause a racial imbalance. If the Sheriff excludes other incorporated
town residents, and if those towns also contain higher concentrations of blacks, the net result will be
racial imbalances in issuance within that county, preserving the overall "pattern".
We also have two other confirmed cases of counties wherein the Sheriff discriminates against the residents
residents of specific towns within their county, and the towns in question have higher minority populations
and lower overall income levels than the towns and unincorporated areas the Sheriff declares his "CCW
jurisdiction". So that's three different possible "racist patterns" without even getting into individual racism
on a per-applicant basis: "urban racism", "rural anti-Latino racism", "town discrimination within a county".