§ The map · Kansas
Kansas was admitted to the Union in 1861.
Admitted eleven days after the first state left. Two governments, two constitutions, five years of fighting.
Asked how many people in the other party support political violence, Kansas residents put the figure at 56.7%. Asked the same people whether they themselves support it, the answer comes back at 15.6%. The distance between what is believed and what is true is 41.1 points, across 1,042 respondents in Kansas.
The books ask a smaller question than the news does: what happens at one kitchen table when nobody corrects the number.
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