(CNN)Close your eyes and imagine the "center" of America. What do you see? Is it the rolling plains of Kansas, or Manhattan's field of skyscrapers? The foggy Golden Gate, or a gated community? Lately, all I can see is Ferguson, the now-famous Missouri town where, in August, a police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown. It's a place no one had heard of a year ago but now finds itself at the center of the news cycle, at the center of our national attention and at the center of a new and profound sense of worry that racial injustice may long divide us still.
@highlight
Photographer Benjamin Hoste has spent years documenting Plato, Missouri
@highlight
Plato was named the "mean center of population" for the United States
That seems to be part of @placeholder's assertion with these photos.