§ The map · Texas
Texas was admitted to the Union in 1845.
An independent republic for nine years. The only state that was a country first.
Asked how many people in the other party support political violence, Texas residents put the figure at 53.8%. Asked the same people whether they themselves support it, the answer comes back at 21.4%. The distance between what is believed and what is true is 32.4 points, across 12,544 respondents in Texas.
The trilogy begins where this gap ends: with people who are certain about each other and wrong.
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