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Recent content by Caprice

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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    I've been tabling out Vermont elections, and I swear the math all adds up. . . (one LaRouche elector got a vote and the other two didn't - the vote is thus rounded down to 0 but the percentage is not.)
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    And the (eternal) beta 1.01 is finished for use in election maps and such; here's how it shows townships upon statehood:
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    Each one's a different polygon in the shapefile for a different township border over time. This is only possible thanks to a document from the Secretary of State's office indexing every single legislative act to do with individual towns. Of course, this also means looking up a set of session...
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    I've found a new cartographic focus. It's only about 10% random guesswork!
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    I haven't been posting my Ohio maps here, but here's one that's really quite interesting: the 1819 referendum on whether to hold a constitutional convention in which, despite the greatest fear of No voters being that delegates might nefariously make Ohio a slave state, the most abolitionist part...
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    I woke up in a cold sweat with this scenario beamed into my head. (/s) (In other news, I discovered I have a Substack recently and have begun making the kind of posts I made about the politics of Minnesota Territory, but this time with bibliographies. Also, this time they're about Ohio.)
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    I'm not sure if this fits 100% into the topic, but I think it fits well enough and there's no thread for the exact topic: apparently, back when he was a random backbencher, Oliver Cromwell nearly ended up moving to Connecticut, a place I do not particularly associate with existing at the same...
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    I've taken a detour into tabling out statewide results for Ohio statewide (non-federal) offices. Here's a graph of the average number of candidates per said office in each election year, primary and general: Not a single statewide election between 1868 and 1918 exclusive was contested between...
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    Thanks! Most of the 1855 elections were Democratic vs. American races, so what I've done so far is the particularly dynamic part. I'm not sure if I want to go forward and do the elections up until 1860-1, or if I want to save that for another time. I should finish this one first, though, before...
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    All the states to vote in 1854 are done, or as done as I can manage to do them. (A large chunk of the country, especially in the South, held their Congressional elections in odd-numbered years; the practice would not fully die out until 1880.)
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    Yellow is Whigs; the Know-Nothings will get purple.
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    Indeed; the only places so far where I've had to just go "okay, I'm stuck with the district totals or worse" are Vermont and a few unopposed districts in South Carolina and Pennsylvania. Michael J. Dubin, in his big huge book of Congressional election returns, lists the non-Democratic...
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    1854-55, for Congress.
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    Right, I think I've worked up to a point where it's a lot easier to tell what this map depicts. . . Tragically, I do not yet have county results for Vermont just yet.
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    Caprice's Maps and What-Not

    My interest has slowly percolated over to another Big Fancy Map. . . Scale to be determined at a later time.
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