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Re: Ideal Nationals location?

To: "Mark Sirota" <msirota@isc.upenn.edu>
Subject: Re: Ideal Nationals location?
From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 14:49:04 -0700
That's "most efficient", I don't see any compelling reason to call it "most
fair".  ;)

KeS

> Taken from a CNN story about the 2000 census:
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/04/02/us.census/
>
> > With the new numbers, the United States has a new population
> > center -- determined by where a U.S. map would balance if
> > population distribution were charted on it. The center has moved
> > to Phelps County in south-central Missouri, about 34 miles
> > west-southwest of the 1990 population hub of Crawford, Missouri,
> > the Census Bureau said.
>
> So assuming every American counted by the census is just as likely
> to go to Nationals as every other American (and yes, that's an
> awfully big assumption), we should be looking for sites in
> south-central Missouri in order to be the most fair.
>
> Mark

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