Fifty ways into one country.
Two records, on the same fifty states. How each one joined the country in the first place, and how wrong the people in it are about what the other side actually believes.
Switch layers below, then tap any state. Not one of them was admitted unanimously by accident, and not one of them guessed low.
SOURCESRatification votes from the United States Senate Manual. Statehood dates from the National Archives. Where a card carries a different source, it names it. Where sources disagree, this map follows the Senate Manual and says so.
How wrong we are about each other
Americans believe 55.5% of the other party supports political violence. Asked about themselves, 15.1% of Democrats and 14.6% of Republicans say they do. The gap holds in all fifty states.
All fifty states, ranked by the size of the gap →
One page for every state
The card, the vote it joined by, and the distance between what people there believe about the other side and what the other side actually says. Fifty states and the District of Columbia.