Missouri sits in the middle. For the last forty years, it’s been the average center of the country’s population, and today, more than any other, it can claim to be the state where the north meets the south, and the east meets the west. Roughly halfway between the Rockies and the Appalachians, the Canadian border and the Gulf of Mexico, home to flat expanses of farmland, the forested mountains, hills, and cliffs of the Ozarks, and two major American cities, Missouri is a unique and fascinating place, and the twenty-fifth place I will cover in the US Explained. Listen to my podcast here! - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/riffing-and-ranting/id1704428344 Image Sources - https://docs.google.com/document/d/12Q9yUeD2ZEJdqPNe4EkJK-GAyALkmdABuoFIK00c7YQ/edit?usp=sharing All video clips used were marked as reuse allowed, please check out the creators of these great drone clips below! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlIdeD8PbU4 Visit the TII Store! - https://thatisinteresting.org/ Join the Patreon for behind the scenes videos and maps! - https://www.patreon.com/thatisinteresting Join the Discord to engage with other viewers! - https://discord.gg/RyxThheCYe Music - LEMMiNO - Cipher - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0q5PR1xpA0&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUM0pC8lFE8