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Another notable result of the 1980 census was that it was the first one where the majority of Americans lived west of the Mississippi River.
by mpyne 12y ago
Another notable result of the 1980 census was that it was the first one where the majority of Americans lived west of the Mississippi River.
- mattst88 12y agoDistance, as well as population, is a factor in the mean center of population. Even today there isn't close to a majority of the population living west of the Mississippi.
- mpyne 12y agoGood point, I only wish I'd seen it in time to fix my comment.
- hollerith 12y agoNot true[1]. Perhaps the "population center of mass" is west of the Mississippi, but that is a different statistic. [1] http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_it_the_population_west_of_the_Mississippi_river_versus_east_of_the_Mississippi http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_it_the_population_west_of_the...
- raldi 12y agoAs an example of how this could be possible, imagine the population of the USA were 3: two people living in East St. Louis, and one person living in Hawaii.
- inportb 12y agoIt would be fun to actually compute the center of mass, knowing that people are not uniformly massive.
- ekimekim 12y agoA good starting point might be average weight statistics on a per-state level. I doubt you could get any finer-grained information though.