It looks like I have discovered yet another reason why using the Shreveport plant is a brilliant move for EM!
You may be shocked to find out that Shreveport, LA is actually only 360 straight line miles southwest of the mean center of the US population.
The mean center is: "the point at which an imaginary, flat, weightless, and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if weights of identical value were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person on the date of the census"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_States_population
You may be shocked to find out that Shreveport, LA is actually only 360 straight line miles southwest of the mean center of the US population.
The mean center is: "the point at which an imaginary, flat, weightless, and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if weights of identical value were placed on it so that each weight represented the location of one person on the date of the census"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_center_of_the_United_States_population