Clarifying and Redrawing the AAAS Regions

At the October meeting, the board took a careful look at existing regions and the corresponding membership numbers (see below).

Mid-Atlantic/South 93 members (22%)

Pacific NW 21 members (5%)

Midwest/Mountain 72 members (17%)

S. California 89 members (21%)

N. Cailfornia 63 members (15%)

New England/Canada 52 members (12%)

Hawai’i 14 members (3%)

International 24 members (5%)

Total: 428 members (100%)
(as of February 2007)

In addition, it considered the arguments put forward at the 2007 annual conference for representation of the “Interior West” and Canada. To reflect the current membership distribution and to respond to the changing realities of Asian American population distributions, the board proposes a redrawing of the regional map. The new regional demarcations will be voted on at the 2008 Chicago conference at the general business meeting.

The proposed regions are:

- New England and Eastern Canada (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ontario and Quebec provinces)

- Mid-Atlantic (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C.)

- Mid-West (Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana)

- Interior West and the South (W. Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, S. Dakota, N. Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Utah, Idaho)

- Northern California (Zip codes >94xxx)

- Southern California (Zip codes <94xxx)

- Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, and Western Canada (Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Pacific Islands, Alaska, W. Canada)