Talk:High Desert (California)

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I wrote the original High Desert article and I used population Victorville and Barstow stats from Wikipedia that corresponded with what I saw in Rand McNally. However, someone changed the population data and wrote it as nearly three times higher.

If the 300K+ figure is correct, then fine. But I would like to see a citation for that.

[edit] reference to Inland Empire and Greater Los Angeles Area

Re this portion: << This region is part of the Riverside-San Bernardino Area or also know as Inland Empire in the portions of San Bernardino and Riverside only and in Los Angeles County known as The Greater Los Angeles Area>>

I think it is best to remove this, for several reasons.

First, Inland Empire and GLAA are primarily urban areas outside of where most of the High Desert actually is. The sentence ends up being confusing.

Second, it is written in a somewhat muddled way that makes it hard to understand. "For census purposes, most of this region is ..." might make it better, but I'm not sure that was the intent.

Lastly, it was a little sloppily written. It didn't even include a period. ;)

Instead I added reference and a link to "Inland Empire" farther down, where it was more natural and appropriate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kushibo (talk • contribs) 18:27, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Define "High Desert"

See the ongoing discussion at Talk:High desert

FWIW, I've spent a lot of time in the Mojave, and don't recall ever hearing it referred to as "high desert." Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 20:31, 8 April 2008 (UTC)