§ The map · Delaware
Delaware ratified the Constitution in 1787, by a convention vote of 30-0, the 1st state to do so.
First to sign on, and nobody in the room voted against it.
Asked how many people in the other party support political violence, Delaware residents put the figure at 54.4%. Asked the same people whether they themselves support it, the answer comes back at 19.4%. The distance between what is believed and what is true is 35 points, across 464 respondents in Delaware.
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.
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Divided Houses, Book One of the Union Trilogy