Data University Episode 41 : US Mean Center of Population

Data University Episode 41. This is meant to be watched as a randomized playlist of videos.
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Few Americans give much thought to the implications of internal population movement, and few non-Americans think a country this large can have this fluid of a population by residency.
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Each video is a component of the playlist. See the full playlist here : czcams.com/play/PLtB9SWgRuNLUAciCQMMKNKLcySbqIVBcm.html

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minor correction KG - Arizona, etc. were part of the United States before they became states - they were territories like Puerto Rico. Population may have grown after they became states, but beconming states did not add their population to the US.

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The weighted mean population center only counts the formal States ("United States"), not territories. Hence, entities only contributed to the placement of the dot after becoming states.
From Wikipedia :
"The concept of the center of population as used by the U.S. Census Bureau is that of a balance point. The center of population is the point at which an imaginary, weightless, rigid, and flat (no elevation effects) surface representation of the 50 states (or 48 conterminous states for calculations made prior to 1960) and the District of Columbia would balance if weights of identical size were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person. More specifically, this calculation is called the mean center of population.[3]"
This is further corroborated by the fact that the massive Louisiana purchase did not move the Mean Center of Population by itself in an instant, but only after portions of it were gradually converted into states in stages. Louisiana and nearby Oklahoma were both part of the Louisiana Territory, but OK became a state 95 years later than LA.