§ The map · Louisiana
Louisiana was admitted to the Union in 1812.
Bought from France, then admitted. Kept its own legal code and still has it.
Asked how many people in the other party support political violence, Louisiana residents put the figure at 53.8%. Asked the same people whether they themselves support it, the answer comes back at 18.8%. The distance between what is believed and what is true is 35 points, across 1,421 respondents in Louisiana.
None of this requires anyone to be lying. It only requires everyone to be sure, and nobody to check.
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