Recent content by msmp

Great work as always, Ares! Worth considering that as under-representative of the population as LA's city council is, it actually gets worse when you go one level up. Los Angeles County, America's largest by some distance, has a budget larger than the GDP of Iceland (hardly a developing nation)...

To my mind, 1972 has always felt like a good point for showing that transition. The Southern Strategy becomes increasingly obvious at the Presidential level from there forward, but it doesn't really trickle down to the House level until the Gingrich wave of 1994, and it doesn't really complete...

I'm assuming the ZDS plurality is on the map in Ponevezh/Ponevitch (not sure the proper Lithuanian spelling, so going with the Yiddish here)? Given its role in Litvish/Litvak identity it wouldn't surprise me, especially since without Vilna it would have been one of the larger centers of Jewish...

That's the most blue I think I've ever seen in Paris

This is one of many reasons the Saar is one of my favorite areas of study professionally. It's really wild how such a small piece of land (relatively speaking) went through such political turmoil in the 20th century, even by comparison to other contested areas in Europe. Have you ever looked...

Given it didn't really start to do that in terms of the national conversation until Willy Brandt took power, I think this is a very safe conclusion to draw. I don't know that it would be as bad as say, Austria or Spain in terms of significant political forces denying that the prior regime was...

Given that's the 1994 map, we're only seven years away from one of the single most explosive turns of subcontinent history, too.

This is the single wildest thing I have read in ages, and it's also entirely accurate.

Plus ça change, the old imperial borders are still pretty obvious, though less so than in the past. I think that's an artifact of the non-KO opposition failing to top the poll anywhere, though.

Incredible map again, Ares! Am I correct in assuming none of these have maintained legal distinctions in the modern day? And if so, were they simply merged with other local government units, or is there another status they gained?

Name a better duo than "British colonial legislatures" and "wildly unequal constituencies." Awesome writeup too, Ares! One question: what's the small (I'm guessing urban/town-based), two-seat constituency in the modern-day Eastern Cape, a bit Northwest of (what was then) Port Elizabeth?

What's the primary language for Indian/Asian South Africans? English? I ask because Durban sticks out quite clearly on both maps, and I seem to recall that being the major center for the Indian population in SA.

You have no idea how neat it is to finally see this--thanks, Ares!

Part of that, I'm sure, is that the Germans have always been meticulous record-keepers, regardless of the era; it's one of the reasons prosecution of Nazi war criminals was possible in the first place. Press coverage pre-Nazi was also slightly less restricted than National-era SA, I think.

The only consistent place for election maps that I remember back when I was in undergrad (~2007-2011) was Adam Carr's website, and he didn't map every country who he gathered statistics for (and now has scaled back to just Australia and state elections). Now there's plenty of people and it's...