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220 Years Of Population Dispersion In America

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Since 1790, the mean center of population of the United States has drifted - somewhat consistently - from east to west with a southerly bias beginning in the late 1920s (as the Depression began). The current mean center of the US population is Texas County, Missouri; 2.7 miles northeast of Plato, Missouri.

 

Click here for animated mean center of population of the US since 1790

Source: Census

 

Note: The mean center of population is the point at which an imaginary , flat, weightless, and rigid map of the United States would balance if weights of identical value were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person on Census Day.

 

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Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:05 | 4891798 Government need...
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Just wait until the 30 million semi-literates from Central America get counted.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:10 | 4891825 shankster
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Most of them are in Houston.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:30 | 4891868 wee-weed up
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Yep, just follow the slope of the current curve of the line...

If Obozo and withHolder have their way...

The new center of the US will be down in the...

Mexi-Fornia/Arizon-exico area before you can say, "No habla ingles."

*** Of course... Obozo and withHolder and their families won't be retiring and living there...

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:34 | 4891887 max2205
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We're going to need a bigger boat....

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:49 | 4891926 wee-weed up
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Not a bigger boat...

A bigger guillotine for all the pro-amnesty congresscritters!

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 05:16 | 4892336 PT
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OMG!!!  Give it another 500 years and you'll all drown in the Pacific Ocean!  You will need a bigger boat!  And 2000 years later you'll all have to learn how to speak Chinese!

And y'all walking westwards is going to speed up the earth beneath you and make the days shorter so you'll have to keep walking westwards away from the sun so you won't get so old so quickly!

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s  (  <--- You never know.  I might need it.)

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 07:57 | 4892480 udaman
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down-voted bc not funny or creative

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:51 | 4891932 SafelyGraze
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there was already a dispersed population in, and before, 1790, spread across the land

maybe with a centroid already somewhere in missouri

just sayin

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 23:17 | 4891987 Radical Marijuana
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Something like 90% of that original population was wiped out by the European Invasion that created the USA, but nevertheless, it could be theoretically interesting to imagine what that "center of population" in North America would have actually looked like during the previous tens of thousands of years!

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 23:26 | 4892007 NoDebt
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They don't count.  Just like the long-term unemployed don't count any more.

 

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 23:39 | 4892043 Matt
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That's not entirely true. By the time the Americans got serious about colonizing, 90% of the population of the Americas were already dead from the three or four epidemics Cortez brought with him.

Heck, Cortez's war against the Aztecs was possible mainly due to the outer city states joining him, and by the time they got to their capital, they were already dying. Then, when the Spaniards got to the Incas, they were all sick and dying, the plagues spread so fast.

The American Lebensraum merely finished off another 9% or so of the original population (or 90% of the remainder if prefer).

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 23:53 | 4892069 Terminus C
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Read, " A People's History of the United States"

Your public school edumacation taught you that there was no one here by the time you moved west.  This untrue, but it makes you feel better about your ancestors genocidal tendancies.  We are all Nazis.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 23:59 | 4892082 Crawdaddy
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Half of my family tree was already here when the white boys showed up - does that make me half a Nazi? Nazi Lite? What to do with the other totally Nazi half? Get a rope! Grandma you are screwed, Grandpa you are lucky. See - that doesn't work.  Each man must be judged for HIS decisions.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 05:02 | 4892317 Otto Zitte
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I deal with every person one at a time. I have done business with lots of crackers, coneheads, wasps, daegos, niggers, latinos, kikes, gingers, towelheads, black irish, sand niggers, beaners, mesicans, spics, wops, krauts, micks, poles, slaves, macs, gomers, homos, faggots, dykes, left footers, finnians, rice eaters, wookies, whores and charlie when I could find him to negotiate (I avoid talking heads, pimps, academics, cops, jack russell terriers, judges, wannabe judges=most tree hugging suckass lawyers, ivy league pimptards and kevin spacey) who are otherwise perfectly good people. Except where noted you can do business with the aforementioned on their word, at least until a seed bastard gets in their mix and turns them against you, otherwise bring back up & expect rain. Do not bet more than you can afford to lose, and STFU. Are we clear?

The game is: Survival. Your multigenerational survival. How you doing there Jack?

Push back the statist population bomb with your own kind.

I already did the part of 30 men and I'm still holding. What have you done? 

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 00:40 | 4892143 Joe A
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You mean giving smallpox infested blankets to the natives? That was not Cortez but WASPs.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 01:39 | 4892213 boodles
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Myth.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 09:19 | 4892800 ncdirtdigger
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But i saw it on South Park, it must be true!

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 03:58 | 4892291 Mercuryquicksilver
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Never mind the 40 to 90 million natives destroyed directly or indirectly by european immigrants.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 08:20 | 4892497 armageddon addahere
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How many of you "experts" know the history of the first European colonists? If you did, you would find that 80% to 100% of each group of European newcomers to the Americas died in the first 2 or 3 years. Mostly of disease and starvation.

American diseases weren't any healthier for Europeans, than European diseases for Americans.

I am talking about the early Colonial period, 1492 - 1700s.

As late as the 19th century a newcomer to the south was given about a 50/50 chance of living long enough to be acclimated, about 2 or 3 years.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 04:55 | 4892320 August
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Took some serious irrigation and waterworks to get the population center that far west.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 00:16 | 4892109 ebworthen
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We're going to need a bigger moat.

The bigger boat will be for those going back to Europe.

Of course it is being taken over by Muslims who want Sharia Law imposed.

Western Civilization is breaking down, and most in D.C. and NYC are skimming the cream while they can.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 00:37 | 4892139 DarthVaderMentor
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Who said the boat is going back to Europe? The new direction is South, my boy. The Knights of the Golden Circle were(are) right. The population changes have been able to accomplish what the Civil War failed to achieve.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 04:40 | 4892314 RadioactiveRant
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A bigger warehouse: US plans new Texas holding facility for unaccompanied migrant children

On annualised basis you're looking at 78'000 unaccompanied children (+ the ones that don't get caught). If they were all of school age, it would cost an additional US$922,428,000 per year just to educate them, let alone house and feed.

Is there anyway I can take a long position on this?

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:41 | 4891906 dexter_morgan
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Is that why I keep getting those fucking amber alerts on my phone based in Houston?

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 23:33 | 4892029 AchtungAffen
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Everytime I get on ZH's comment section, specially with news items related to science, I'm confronted with a plethora of semi-literates. Does that mean ZHers are all LatAms?

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 23:38 | 4892040 Oldwood
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When have we not used science as a justification AND means for killing humans. Eugenics anyone?

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 04:26 | 4892309 Otto Zitte
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Again, how is it the white minority become the oppressor and subjugated bitch of the majority races?

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 10:37 | 4893204 ptolemy_newit
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cold climate pushed demand for planning and that force diversification in brain thought, evolution of IQ

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 11:22 | 4893430 Otto Zitte
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IQ? Ha ha ha howl. back in the 70s Dr. Stephen Mason Phd, dharma dance production manager, imagined the SQ. Da box is too small. da box is too small. your box is too small.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 16:41 | 4895114 AchtungAffen
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Well, hundreds of years of colonialism and slavery might tell you something.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 16:40 | 4895112 AchtungAffen
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Other excuses have also been used. Religion anyone? Race?

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:05 | 4891799 navy62802
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Oh no!! It's drifting towards terrorism!

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:14 | 4891843 22winmag
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We're all terrorists now.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:05 | 4891800 logicalman
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Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:40 | 4891904 dexter_morgan
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you are a man of few words.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:07 | 4891809 LetThemEatRand
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In 1790, there were ten guys wearing heavy cotton suits on a see-saw in Maryland -- 5 a side.  In 2010, two fat Wal-Mart patrons (wearing thongs) balanced it out in Missouri.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:16 | 4891848 PSEUDOLOGOI
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you mean ONE patron, not two... right?

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:16 | 4891851 LetThemEatRand
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Good point.  I didn't account for spillover.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:12 | 4891833 Pairadimes
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How ironic. For years now, the average American has been in a state of Missouri.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:21 | 4891863 Bingo Hammer
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Clever man you are

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 00:34 | 4892137 prains
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 the average American has been in a state of Missouri.

 

is there really such a thing as an "average" amerikan? we can't survive as a globe if somebody's not going to be exceptional

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 07:59 | 4892485 Kirk2NCC1701
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Yes, Americans have been in that state since 1980: When Bush got into power, using Ronnie as the Front-Man.  Few people get that.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:16 | 4891844 Dr. Engali
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Population expanded westerward for new opportunities and to get away from oppressive government only to establish their own form of opportunity crushing oppressive government. Now sadly there are no frontiers left to go to escape the statists.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:32 | 4891885 disabledvet
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i blame the car meeself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5O0_g-aBZI&feature=kp

"once we put the pedal to the metal it was game over."

we're still bailing out that industry.

apparently someone thinks we're not having enough kids again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUW0l7bZn1s

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 23:41 | 4892047 LetThemEatRand
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West bound and down, loaded up and truckin'.  We're goin' to do what they say can't be done.  We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 03:16 | 4892269 Jorgen
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Puerto Rico. According to Doug Casey -- no capital gains tax if you move there from the mainland U.S. and become a resident there.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 06:06 | 4892372 Comte d'herblay
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BUGS!!!! BUGS!!!

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 06:42 | 4892394 Kirk2NCC1701
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Instead of Go West, it's "Go SW, young man.  Go SW."

Still lots of opportunities in low-wage jobs? 

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 07:58 | 4892483 Antifaschistische
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great point Engali, for a long time I've wanted some genius Eco-Political-Sociological-Historian to write the book "A World with no more Frontiers" (or something like that).   This is new in World History.  Now...there's really no longer any place to go to escape fascist, oppressive, freedom denying governments.

 

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:15 | 4891845 Rootin' for Putin
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All i see is everyone has been trying to get away from DC

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:21 | 4891864 forwardho
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When was the last time you had the misfortune to pass through DC? Construction cranes across the entire skyline. Fastest growing city in US at this time.

The parasitic class is winnowing closer to the source.

The better to suck the last bit of blood from a dieing host.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 23:29 | 4892019 NoDebt
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California ain't exactly "getting away from DC".  More like "out of the frying pan, into the fire."

When even Bill Maher is complaining about CA, you know it's bad.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 04:21 | 4892306 Otto Zitte
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Bowel Moahr is a jew from NJ. he complains about everything, its in his DNA.

Wherever you go, there you are.

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 22:37 | 4891895 Flakmeister
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That's a cool plot... 

Looks like a huge shift 1850-1880...

Run a PCA on the raw data and you can isolate the components of internal migration, immigration and illegals...

Tue, 06/24/2014 - 23:25 | 4892005 Frankie Carbone
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Has anyone other than me noticed that the present trajectory has it near the Mexico border in a hundred years of less, given exponential population growth accelerating the trend?

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 00:13 | 4892103 Lin S
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I used to dream of fleeing Mexifornia and living peacefully in Arizona.  Recent barbarian invasion news now has me re-thinking that.

Jack Burton's manifold ZH posts about the upper peninsula have influenced me greatly, I confess, and so I'm considering it.  Plenty of clean water and far from Mexico...

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 01:35 | 4892208 boodles
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THe UP?   Before you buy a home, please spend a June in the UP (one of the few snowless months) so you can experience the horror of June/July black flies. 

as I was cycling across the UP many years ago a swarm of flies decided to follow me ... mile after mile.  Couldn't get away from them.  They bite mercilessly.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 03:00 | 4892255 Lin S
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Shit.  Well, there goes that idea...

 

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 06:04 | 4892371 Comte d'herblay
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BUGS!!!  I can't stand bugs.  

It's the first thing I look at when contemplating a move anywhere. As a consequence, I have ruled out the tropics, subtropics, and infested states like Maine, Minnesota, ANY state that has lots of small lakes, even Alaska.

No longer am I entranced with the West Indies, Coastal Delaware, or swampland in Florida or Puerto Rico where the bugs drop from the trees.  Little by little my world is narrowing and options dwindling. I'd rather live in dome covered city than have to put up with bugs.  Some freedoms are prisons themselves. The UP is certainly one of them. Lower P is also.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 07:38 | 4892461 Oleander
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We have few bugs in Mass., although the ticks have become more dangerous with Lymes. No venomous spiders though.  I worry more about snakes. I will not go south of here due to venomous snakes.  No water moccasins or copperheads to ruin my camping trip. If a golf ball is in the brush you can retrieve it without a rattler strike.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 08:04 | 4892494 RobD
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Very few bugs here in Reno as long as you stay away from the few wet areas. If you like sagebrush and wind this is the place!

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 01:04 | 4892175 starman
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Washington, the man killed several million Natives. I think the total is about 14 million Natives that were wiped out in a hundred years . America was founded on.............genocide!

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 04:05 | 4892295 Mercuryquicksilver
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Manifest Destiny started with Columbus. The founder of north american slave trade.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 11:44 | 4892303 Otto Zitte
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Try to imagine that the saddistic assholes who brainwashed you from the cradle into your prescient belief system didn't tell you anything true.

Try to understand that since you weren't there, you don't know. And you never will.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 05:58 | 4892363 Comte d'herblay
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Just out of curiosity, how many Apaches raped, killed, kidnapped, tortured, and maimed hideously, members of other tribes?  How many did Geronimo kill, maim, torture, and rape personally? 

Leave out the white-eyes and 'splain how wiping out the subhuman animals by other subhuman animals is never EVER introduced into the narrative about the Cavalry's treatment of indians?

And get it thru your skull: WE, ALL of us are Native Americans. The indians didn't magically spring from the desert sands, they too, emigrated from some other place just as did the Irish, Italians, the English and every illegal from Mexico. 

Stop trumping up phony sympathy for the savages. It only shows how brainwashed you are.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 18:46 | 4895585 TheObsoleteMan
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Tell it like it is {or was}. Before the white settlers arrived, the Indian Nations ward between themselves like any other peoples. Modern academia portrays pre-settlement days as a peaceful utopia, where the lion lay with the lamb. BULLSHIT. It is a human trait that is shared among nearly all peoples around the globe to take what someone else possesses. And since they don't want to part with it for nothing, well.......

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 06:51 | 4892399 Green Tea
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It would be funny to see the baricentre considering the actual weight of Americans. I guess this would also move south

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 07:08 | 4892417 IndianaJohn
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Indiana was the stable, center of the world for 50 years. WW II triggered the decay that is currently in progress. http://kevinmacdonaldespanol.wordpress.com/2013/04/16/americas-unpardonable-crime/

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 07:23 | 4892436 de3de8
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Don't tell congressman Johnson about this.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 07:43 | 4892466 tarsubil
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It is interesting. 1900 was the end of the territorial expansion. Then the US turned to occupation (Philippines, Cuba, western Europe, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Middle East, north Africa, south west Asia, eastern Europe...). When and where does it end?

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 10:43 | 4893234 SilverMoneyBags
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LOL IT NEVER FUCKING ENDS!!! TO SPACE AND BEYOND MOTHER FUCKER....U S A...U S A...

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 10:42 | 4893230 SilverMoneyBags
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We're gonna need those extra Mexicans to fight off the Chinese in 20 years.

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 13:05 | 4893996 schnydz
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More affraid of them Canadians than the chinese...

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 13:06 | 4893997 schnydz
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Then again the cubans may attack...

Wed, 06/25/2014 - 11:06 | 4893353 Chief Wonder Bread
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When will the long westward expansion reach its end point? It looks like the center never has moved eastward from one census to the next. When and if that happens - a watershed moment - methinks it will be western drought that will be the cause.

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