§ The map · Alaska
Alaska was admitted to the Union in 1959.
Bought in 1867 and admitted ninety-one years later. For the first seventeen of them it had no civil government at all.
Asked how many people in the other party support political violence, Alaska residents put the figure at 54.3%. Asked the same people whether they themselves support it, the answer comes back at 26.6%. The distance between what is believed and what is true is 27.7 points, across 367 respondents in Alaska.
The books ask a smaller question than the news does: what happens at one kitchen table when nobody corrects the number.
Alaska Court System
America's Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab. Weekly from September 2022 to March 2026. 162,000 respondents nationally.
Answer the same question yourself — six seats, from the world down to you, and then you see where every other reader landed.
All fifty-one cards on the map
Divided Houses, Book One of the Union Trilogy