§ The map · Rhode Island
Rhode Island ratified the Constitution in 1790, by a convention vote of 34-32, the 13th state to do so.
Two votes, and only after Congress threatened to treat it as a foreign country.
Asked how many people in the other party support political violence, Rhode Island residents put the figure at 53.7%. Asked the same people whether they themselves support it, the answer comes back at 15.3%. The distance between what is believed and what is true is 38.4 points, across 339 respondents in Rhode Island.
A gap this wide is not an opinion. It is a measurement, and it is the ground the novels stand on.
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.
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Divided Houses, Book One of the Union Trilogy