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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 780237, member: 16510&quot;]<b>This is an interesting question/comment and</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This is an interesting question/comment and I to have wondered about it greatly.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In the last ten years since I ran the Knoxville show I was always struck by the hobby&#039;s mostly older (45 plus) single male attendies and participants.</p><p>During this period I can only think of 3 or 4 regular black attendies, maybe 3 Asian and a couple dozen women as a general rule.&nbsp; Never a black dealer, never an asian and never a women (by themselves) as a dealer vest pocket of otherwise.&nbsp; A few women have set up with men to help maybe 6 or so every now and then usally as wives or girlfriends of course.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>I am not certain why this is but here my 2-cents worth.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>1.&nbsp; Minorities were simply not as exposed to coin colleting to begin with, in other words : &quot;if it is mostly older white males now then it was all older white males in the 50&#039;s and 60&#039;s that past down interest in coins to who they knew, younger white males&quot;.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>2.&nbsp; Economics:&nbsp; You have to admit it takes some dispposably income to pursue coin collecting.&nbsp; White males seem to have as much if not more than most, at least historically, extra cash.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>3.&nbsp; This area (East Tennessee) is not a hot bed of minorities to begin with.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><b>4.&nbsp; Women anyway (rather than males) are just not drawn to coin collecting by nature.&nbsp; It&#039;s not anything &quot;for them&quot; - they don&#039;t see the point.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Now I&#039;m just thinking of what I have seen in this area - I suspect it may be much different in other more diverse parts of the country.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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