I've been wondering this since the Beta was released earlier this week but will Alliance Pandarians and Horde Pandarians have separate "Race" variables or not? The reasoning why I ask is that I'm in the process of setting up the back end in preparation for MoP. I'm looking at Monks (which for the record uses the "Class" variable of "10" according to Wowhead) and I'm like:
"Ok...How am I going to tell my program that item A is available to this monk when the item is faction specific."