§ The map · Montana
Montana was admitted to the Union in 1889.
One of four states admitted in nine days, all under the same enabling act. Montana was the third of the four.
Asked how many people in the other party support political violence, Montana residents put the figure at 58.4%. Asked the same people whether they themselves support it, the answer comes back at 13.2%. The distance between what is believed and what is true is 45.2 points, across 447 respondents in Montana.
A gap this wide is not an opinion. It is a measurement, and it is the ground the novels stand on.
Presidential Proclamation 293
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