RE: AIS:Symposium/Soap box #9/Gerry Snyder

> From: 	Iris Moose[SMTP:irismoose@daylily.net]
> one factor that is overlooked when it comes to popularity is the
> "regionalism" of the cultivars.  Picking a national popularity poll winner
> will not always be the cultivar that wins the highest number of votes
> nation
> wide.  It should be the cultivar that wins the most Regional  polls.
> 
> Region 14 has 616 members or roughly 9.3% of the North American AIS
> membership.  Region 10 has 31 members or 0.04%. 
> This is a clear example of why the smaller regions and small hybridizers
> will never have equal or even fair consideration under the current system.
> Iris Moose
> Wake Forest, NC
> 
Sorta' like the House and the Senate, but if given only one I still say the
House (one man, one vote) is more equitable.  If we want equality of
regions, then regional boundaries would need to be shifted.  If the North
Pole were a region with one member, should his vote count equal to all of
region 14?  I understand that growing areas more hospitable to iris might
have more members, and that performance of iris in inhospitable areas is one
valid evaluation criterion, but it would be difficult for those areas to be
equally represented without an equal number of dedicated iris growers.
Otherwise, people living in more optimum climates could complain that the
polls were unfairly skewed towards representing the opinions a tiny number
of people trying to grow iris in difficult climates that did not truly
represent the conditions under which most iris were grown.

John Reeds, in one of those bigger regions (I think), region 15

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