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The data and presentation taken literally are not misleading I suppose -- US population centroid. It is a graph of manifest destiny, like another comment said - the spread of the U…

According to this paper* there were estimates of ~600k remaining in 1800. 3.9million citizens in 1790 USA -> nontrivial number and effect on the mean centroid, especially consideri…

You're right, wasn't thinking of Africans. But I think you knew what I meant.

This doesn't seem to take into account the non-European population^1...? I guess that's fine if you state it -- just people the census was counting (not even all white people in US…

Maybe the reason people are upvoting this is because the book uses software and programming to make the mathematics precise. This is not a typical math book - just like Sussman's c…