This spreadsheet identifies "black counties" versus "white" in 1997.
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 in 1997
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)
http://caag.state.ca.us/firearms/forms/pdf/ccwissuances.pdf
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 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".