America’s Mean Streak


	America’s Mean Streak

JohnWaterman

6-12-2009 3:35 PM

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6-13-2009 11:17 AM

tabsey

The headline is delightful.

6-14-2009 9:40 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

I though this clip was going to be about USA's foreign policies.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/64547398-8c32-4f2b-8f61-4b40944cfa14/8DFF8E92-7D2F-421F-B42C-819A0B372715/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/389-americas-mean-streak/" href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/389-americas-mean-streak/" style="font-size: 11px;">strangemaps.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/389-americas-mean-streak/"><P><IMG height="512" width="683" alt="Mean_ctr_pop_US_1790-2000" src="http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/mean_ctr_pop_us_1790-2000.png?w=683&h=512" title="Mean_ctr_pop_US_1790-2000" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1339" /></p> <P>The mean centre of US population is “the point at which an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the US would balance perfectly if weights of identical value were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person on the date of the census”, in the definition of the <STRONG>US Census Bureau </STRONG>itself. </p> <P>That bureau has been holding censuses every decade since 1790; these censuses form the backdrop for this string of mean centres of population in the US. The map shows an <STRONG>ever westward shift</STRONG> of that centre, obviously in parallel with the westward expansion of the US and its citizenry. The mean centre of population of the US has shifted thusly:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/389-americas-mean-streak/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">1790: 23 miles east of Baltimore (MD)</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/389-americas-mean-streak/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">1900: 6 miles southeast of Columbus (IN)*</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/389-americas-mean-streak/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">2000: 3 miles east of Edgar Springs (MO)</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/389-americas-mean-streak/"><P>This list refers to the nearest city, which might be in a different state than the mean centre itself. For a more complete listing, including precise sets of <STRONG>decimal coordinates</STRONG>, please see <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_United_States_population">this Wikipedia article</A>. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8DFF8E92-7D2F-421F-B42C-819A0B372715/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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