Every 10 years, the Census Bureau conducts a national tally of the population of the United States....
Back in 1780, there were no states west of the Mississippi, so everyone lived close to the East Coast, by definition....
So the midpoint of the country’s entire population in 1790 was calculated as sitting just northeast of Virginia — on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay.As the country expanded to the west, so did the country’s population center....
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