Animated Mean Center of Population for the United States: 1790 to 2010
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Re: Animated Mean Center of Population for the United States: 1790 to 2010
#2Another animation from the University of Kentucky Appalachian Center, "US Population Growth from 1790 to 1990" tells the story better: http://www.outragegis.com/animations/population-growth.htm
Re: Animated Mean Center of Population for the United States: 1790 to 2010
#3A beautiful illustration of manifest destiny.
Re: Animated Mean Center of Population for the United States: 1790 to 2010
#4If you interpolate between the 1970 and 1980 points, mid-1972 would be fairly close to Belleville, Illinois - where, in mid-1972, I was born.
...thus confirming my long-held belief that I am the center of the universe.
Re: Animated Mean Center of Population for the United States: 1790 to 2010
#5Looks like a big jump between 1940-1950 due to the gold rush, I imagine a similar jump will probably be seen for 2010-2020
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#6If you interpolate between the 1970 and 1980 points, mid-1972 would be fairly close to Belleville, Illinois - where, in mid-1972, I was born. ...thus confirming my long-held belief that I am the center of the universe.
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.
Re: Animated Mean Center of Population for the United States: 1790 to 2010
#7This 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 territories all the time).
So this annoyingly helps sustain the myth that North America was an unpopulated forest until being 'settled' by 'settlers'.
1 (http://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census...):
"Prior to 1900, few Indians are included in the decennial federal census. Indians are not identified in the 1790-1840 censuses. In 1860, Indians living in the general population are identified for the first time. Nearly all of the 1890 census schedules were destroyed as a result of the fire at the Department of Commerce in 1921.
Beginning with the 1900 census, Indians are enumerated on reservations as well as in the general population."
- http://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census...
Re: Animated Mean Center of Population for the United States: 1790 to 2010
#8If you interpolate between the 1970 and 1980 points, mid-1972 would be fairly close to Belleville, Illinois - where, in mid-1972, I was born. ...thus confirming my long-held belief that I am the center of the universe.
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.
Distance, 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.
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#9This 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 territories all the time). So this annoyingly helps sustain the myth that North America was an unpopulated forest until being 'settled' by 'settlers'. 1 ( http://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census... ): "Prior to 1900, f…
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#10I wonder if the accelerating trend towards higher Southern populations in the 1900s was brought on by the invention and development of home air conditioning. I know I would have never moved to Texas without it.