MOScout Sunday6: Is MO the Center of USA? - Slow Growth Demographics? - Right-Wing Populism Prevails in MO and more...

1. Let’s start with the question on everyone’s mind… “Will the Nation’s Center of Population Stay in Missouri for a Fifth Decade?”  Answer coming November 16….

Source: US Census.

2. Demographics are destiny?  Aka The Case for Immigration.

Source: EPB Macro Research.

3. Missouri #13 in cell phone taxes.

Source: Tax Foundation.

4. Missouri middle of the pack, bars per capita.

Source: Reddit

5. Redder parts of US seeing higher COVID deaths.

Source: NYTimes.

6. Ideology map of USA. Outside from the “social democracy” coastal cities, Missouri is dominated by “right wing populism” with pockets of “conservatism” and “populism.”

Source: Twitter.

7. Shorter days make us SAD.

Source: Chartr.