The Nation - News from April 29, 1986
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America’s center of population has edged a little farther west and a little farther south as the long-documented shift from the East Coast continues, the Census Bureau said. The new geographic center of population is now in Washington County, Mo., about 10 miles northwest of Potosi. That is about 20 miles west and 10 miles south of the population center determined in the 1980 census.
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