Center of Population (US)

I have no profound reason for posting this.  Rather, it is something I came across whilst doing research and thought it was kinda cool:

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Steven L. Taylor
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter

Comments

  1. PD Shaw says:

    It looks like the population followed the National Road from Cumberland to St. Louis, and then hopped on to Route 66 in the 60s.

  2. Ernieyeball says:

    All I can see is “IFRAMES not supported”.
    Is that because I use Safari browser?

  3. PD Shaw says:

    Link broken? I saw the graphic earlier, now I get “IFRAMES not supported.”

  4. Hmm. Something went wonky. I think it is fixed now.

  5. legion says:

    Hmmm. As someone who was born and raised in Louisville, I’d like to point out that you have to go an awful lot more than 3 miles out of town to get to Illinois…

  6. Boyd says:

    The right side of the graphic is cut off for me in both Chrome and Firefox, so here’s a direct link.

  7. Trumwill says:

    Looks to me like we need to move out capital to Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska.

  8. Tlaloc says:

    I like maps 🙂

  9. PD Shaw says:

    Looks to me like we need to move out capital to Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska.

    Stimulus!!!