§ The map · Minnesota
Minnesota was admitted to the Union in 1858.
Its bill was tied to Kansas so that a free state and a slave state would enter together. Kansas fell apart and Minnesota waited four months alone.
Asked how many people in the other party support political violence, Minnesota residents put the figure at 55.6%. Asked the same people whether they themselves support it, the answer comes back at 14.1%. The distance between what is believed and what is true is 41.5 points, across 2,205 respondents in Minnesota.
A gap this wide is not an opinion. It is a measurement, and it is the ground the novels stand on.
Minnesota Secretary of State
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