§ The map · Arizona
Arizona was admitted to the Union in 1912.
Last of the lower forty-eight. Its first constitution was vetoed and it had to write another.
Asked how many people in the other party support political violence, Arizona residents put the figure at 56.6%. Asked the same people whether they themselves support it, the answer comes back at 16%. The distance between what is believed and what is true is 40.6 points, across 3,526 respondents in Arizona.
A gap this wide is not an opinion. It is a measurement, and it is the ground the novels stand on.
Ratification votes and dates from the United States Senate Manual. Statehood dates from the National Archives. Where sources disagree, this map follows the Senate Manual and says so.
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