A whole bunch of statistics and useful information is derived from the answers they receive to their questions. One of the interesting tidbits is locating exactly the center of population. When they're done, they pick the one spot where you could say half the US population is north and half is south of it; half is east and half is west of it.
After the 2010 census, the population center was determined to be near Plato, Missouri. Plato sits in south central Missouri not far off the road from St. Louis to Springfield. It's about 517 miles west and south of Cincinnati.
Well, I have it on good authority that the center of population in 1880 was right here in greater Cincinnati. (The exact spot was across the Ohio River over in Boone County.) We were the center of it all 140 years ago this year.
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