I’d like to compare population within, say, a 6-hour drive radius from Chicago and Denver. 9-hour? 12-hour?

The bulk of the West-Coast population is in LA and the Bay, etc. Denver is still quite a hike for them.

No. But then I’m a geographer, although not employed in my field of study.

By comparison, the geographic center of the United States is in Kansas — one state over, to the West of Missouri. That would not seem to indicate a “huge, huge majority” of the population lives on the eastern half of the nation. More people? Yes, but not that many more.

The West coast is hardly sparsely populated (see California) which makes up quite a bit for the somewhat sparsely populated mountain states.

http://www.gislounge.com/images/centerssm.gif

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Then adjust it for LP membership from Lance’s link.

The (general) population center is in SW Missouri, somewhat West of the last dot (from 2001. ) That means 50% of the general US population lives West of that point, 50% East, 50% North, and 50% South.

There’s nothing insidious about a campaign bringing supporters along.

The insidiousness is the LPHQ working to depress the turnout of undesirables.

Your “nope” link proved nothing except that I was right. I think you were looking at the population GROWTH map. Here is the map of population density.

I’m going to find out what portion of Americans live on the Eastern half of the country. My guess is it’s at least 2/3, maybe 3/4.

*good way

Nope.

However, I was wrong: the population center has not moved as far SW as I recalled. Still a good was SW of Chicago, in SW Missouri as of 2001, and the trend is clearly westward.

http://gislounge.com/us-census-2000-population-trends-mapped/

http://www.gislounge.com/images/aoi.gif

The LP membership is more Western based than the general population. See Lance’s link.

Wow, I guess the dozens of delegates who made it to Denver complaining about the difficulty of going through the mountains, etc.,

Those would be people coming from the West, since the mountains are West of Denver. I thought you were just claiming that the vast majority of people come from the East?

Eastern Colorado is flat, and rises gradually to a mile high in Denver. There are some mountain passes in Western Colorado that can be difficult, but not so much in late May.

as well as the dozens more who said they didn’t come because it was in Denver,

Of course. If it was in any other place, Chicago included, a different set of dozens would have had the same problem.

Let’s just say that if my objective was to pick a difficult to get to location for most people, I would not have picked Denver. Portland, on the other hand, was a “good” choice from that perspective.

Wow, I guess the dozens of delegates who made it to Denver complaining about the difficulty of going through the mountains, etc., as well as the dozens more who said they didn’t come because it was in Denver, are wrong, and you are right, paulie.

I-70 and I-25, two of the most major freeways in the country. I-80, which is even more major, is a very short distance north; just drop down 76 if Westbound.

Lance – You asked a question, I gave you an answer. Sorry!

I wasn’t referring to that one time, but rather the other hundreds of times you’ve casually insulted Redpath.

Yes.