Small Missouri town sits at center of nation's population

Thursday, March 24, 2011 | 5:04 p.m. CDT; updated 6:53 p.m. CDT, Thursday, March 24, 2011

PLATO — In a nation of nearly 310 million people, America's new population center rests not in the Midwestern skyline of St. Louis or Chicago, but in a tiny Missouri village named after an ancient Greek philosopher.

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