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I find it interesting that that Hispanic population in Pgh has a hgher rate of grad school degrees than the white population (although it occurs tome that those two categories are not mutually exclusive.

I've told west coast friends of mine that most of the hispanic folks in Pgh are here for the universities. (Less now than before, but still...) They are skeptical. Now I have the digits to back me up.

Until recently, if you heard a foreign language on the street, it was much more likely to be Russian then Spanish.

Someone told me that the Pittsburgh metro region has the highest average income for Hispanics of any region in the country. I don't have the source, but my gut tells me it might be true.

i would not be shocked if we also have one of the lowest percentages of hispanics in our population of any major metro area. although i did move here from a city that has bilingual street signs in the entire north half of the city, so i might have a skewed perspective

we prefer to hide, remove, mislabel, rename, or otherwise obfuscate our street markings. Marking in two languages would simply not be the Pittsburgh Way.

What I found particularly useful was the information on commute departure time. I'll definitely NOT be shifting my morning biking with the sun, and may shift it earlier when school is in session. I'd rather bike in the dark than in traffic, and I didn't realize I'm on the edge of the crazy time. Go headlights!

I thought our signs were bi-lingual (Yinzer AND English)?

we prefer to hide, remove, mislabel, rename, or otherwise obfuscate our street markings. Marking in two languages would simply not be the Pittsburgh Way.

just be glad we have street signs now. this wasn't the case even 10 years ago.

i find it interesting that chicago has the highest mexican population in the country.

and now for something completely different, but of interest to numbers geeks, i present to you the name voyager, a wicked cool app that allows you to see relative baby name popularity over the past 100+ years.

nice. my mother chose my name at exactly it's least popular point in the history shown. but it explains why all the Eleanors I knew as a child were 80 year old women - it peaked in 1910.

I can just see it;

"?dónde está el cinturón rojo?"

just be glad we have street signs now. this wasn't the case even 10 years ago.

I beg to differ. In the early 1980's streat signs were few. Those we had had tiny black print on yellow-orange background.

Sophie Masloff became mayor in may of 1988 after Caliguri died. By election time, November 1989, the city had the big blue street signs we have now on every corner.

@Mick #1: Actually the pre-Sophie city street signs were black on white; the yellow-orange you saw was rust. (only mildly kidding; they probably dated from the 1940s) I can think of a couple of those old signs still in existence.

@Mick #2: Or Polish. Or Hungarian. Spanish, yeah, only the last 5-10 years. And I wouldn't be too sure about their standard of living. The half dozen Hispanics regularly riding with me on the G2 each morning commuting to Robinson restaurants can't be doing that well.

@HV: I didn't find Stuart in the name list, but Stewart is declining fast. It peaked in my decade ranked at about 300, now is sub-800. (Had I been female, I know I would have been named Charlotte. Think of E.B. White books.)

@mick: man, it's getting that a fella can't exaggerate any more!

stu: i believe it has only the top 1000 most popular names in any given time period. stuart must not have cracked the top 1000 in the u.s., maybe? or maybe it lumps stuart and stewart together.

Stu - at least you weren't named Elwyn. _I_ happen to think it's a cool name, but would never inflict it on a 6 year old in any era.

@HV - It's got both Eleanor and Eleanore, so I doubt that it would lump Stu and Stew together. I've always prefered the Stuart spelling, just because calling a person by the name of a food doesn't make any sense to me. "This is my son, Stew, and my other son, Burger. My sister, Salad, is in the other room with Baby Corn, though he's getting older and insisting we all call him Cob now."

Cob is a fine old name. Pretty rare now.

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awe, man, I'd hoped someone had more statistics to share.

Golf sux. So does Girard - it's a dumb name, it never made the top 1000 names in any time period listed.

I can share some more statistics similar in some ways to the Brookings Institute stuff:

http://www.crsp.pitt.edu/publications/pittsburghdemo.php

It's all focused on demographics and race of our area, but there is enough information in there to keep you busy for a while if you're into that sort of thing.

I was just thinking about this the other day, as I walked from the Bike Center to my office. I passed an older couple carrying reading material in what I think was Russian (might have been an alternate Eastern European language, I got only a quick glimpse of the cover), then passed two young men outside the Wood Street T Station speaking Spanish, and outside Rite Aid on Smithfield I saw a gentleman wearing a topi (traditional hat) and who APPEARED to be Nepali. He was alone, and not carrying anything, so I have to go on appearance here. By the end of that three block walk, I felt like I lived in a cosmopolitan city!