§ The map · Indiana
Indiana was admitted to the Union in 1816.
Its constitution prohibited slavery in 1816. Four years later the state supreme court enforced it, ruling that slavery could have no existence in Indiana.
Asked how many people in the other party support political violence, Indiana residents put the figure at 56.5%. Asked the same people whether they themselves support it, the answer comes back at 15.4%. The distance between what is believed and what is true is 41.1 points, across 2,560 respondents in Indiana.
Divided Houses is about what a country does after it stops checking whether the thing it believes about the other side is true.
Indiana Historical Bureau
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