You certainly know what's going on.
When I moved from Nevada to Idaho I didn't think I was ever going to break into being assigned the big high school games...after two seasons it occurred to me that while my ratings were always in the top 10% I wasn't going to get assigned the top games due to the fact that I was not a member of a certain church. I finally did start getting assigned the big games, but that was only because the association was short officials. Used to drive me nuts because I worked at it so darn hard.