Is the center of population the bellwether?

[opebo]

Interestingly, though it doesn't show up on your linked map, the 1980 center of population used to be on the farm next to my dad's.  I suspect recent revisions may have more accurately located it?  It was between the 1980 and the 1990 spots on the linked map.  USA Today came out and put a newpaper vending box right on the spot.  Its still there.  The man who owns the farm is an odd duck, I'm not sure if he would vote, but like all landowners, his politics are very much to the right.  

ot that this means anything as any random point in largely empty America is likely to be on land owned by some rural right-winger.

[opebo]

Opebo,

All landowners are far to the right?

There are plenty of people in my family who own land and aren't far to the right. There goes your theory right there.

I bet if you took a poll solely of rural landowners over 100 acres, you'ld find they're on average to the right of George Bush.