Comments on: LNC ‘bullying’ Angela Keaton

By: G.E.

G.E. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:30:48 +0000

Corrected, but not defeated.

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.

By: G.E.

G.E. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:27:56 +0000

Okay. I stand corrected.

By: paulie cannoli

paulie cannoli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:41:32 +0000

By the way, doesnâ€™t it seem silly to be arguing about geography? =P

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

By: paulie cannoli

paulie cannoli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:39:55 +0000

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/T08/Li-Alloc.phtml

By: darolew

darolew — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:39:16 +0000

By the way, doesn’t it seem silly to be arguing about geography? =P

By: paulie cannoli

paulie cannoli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:38:53 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon,_Kansas

By: paulie cannoli

paulie cannoli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:38:20 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_Center_of_the_Contiguous_United_States

By: darolew

darolew — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:33:07 +0000

The mean center of the United States population is in Missouri. (According to Wikipedia and the U.S. Census Bureau [PDF].) 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.

By: paulie cannoli

paulie cannoli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:06:51 +0000

By: paulie cannoli

paulie cannoli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:06:28 +0000

test

By: paulie cannoli

paulie cannoli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:05:38 +0000

Try this in case that was not clear

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

By: paulie cannoli

paulie cannoli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:04:21 +0000

Try the second link, GE.

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

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.

By: G.E.

G.E. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:02:28 +0000

As far as Barr’s buses… Was any large delegation but Georgia full?

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

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

By: G.E.

G.E. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:00:53 +0000

The people complaining about the mountains could have come from the West — and that still proves my point. Hard to approach from the West, long from the East.

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.

By: paulie cannoli

paulie cannoli — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:56:44 +0000

“Still a good was SW of Chicago,”

*good way