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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    Oh wow, I love this! Did you do some rootling around in my graphics thread - this is pretty accurate to what I had in mind and still have in a word document on my external hard drive somewhere for the national picture. Spot on re. Donna Edwards (although Bernie is still around), and Pete...
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    After some gin, time to post something (less depressing) from this universe, feat. my university never abandoning a collegiate structure: And more depressing than the above but less than the vignette, election maps! (2012 above, 2016 below, note the increase in malapportionment)
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    California's two women's suffrage referenda: 1899 and 1911. 1911 is an especially good example of Land Doesn't Vote. In both cases it's the bay area's rejectionism driving the margins - keeping it wide in 1899 and keeping it close in 1911.
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    Someone on Twitter asked me to do this (checks notes) a year and five months ago, and I never forget when I've promised something. Looking back, I would do a LOT differently with this project these days. Even by British standards, some of these seats have population divergences which are just...
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    SWPA zoom in of the above, done as a twitter request. EDIT: Upper and Lower Monongahela Valleys are the wrong way round on the results table colouring and Representatives list. Whoops.
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    This was just meant to be a short list with a few footnotes and it kind of...grew. Plausbility was not at the forefront of my mind, but I hope it still provides some enjoyment. 1. Clement Davies (Montgomeryshire) 1945 Who? Clement Davies is a name mostly forgotten to history, and it is easy to...
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    Made this ages ago but it came up on twitter so thought I'd put it here: the US but the Congressional Districts have the same average population as UK parliamentary constituencies, giving 3,625 districts, plus UK-style names. State with the most districts: California - 438 State with the least...
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    Wyoming gubernatorial elections since 1950, or: the slow nationalising of US politics and shifting Democratic voter coalitions in one animated gif.
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    The Church of the Moon is the largest extra-terrestrial member of the Anglican Communion in terms of membership. Separated from the Church of the Beyond in the First Division of 1948, it serves Anglicans across most of the Moon - Anglicans in Lunar America are part of the hierarchy of the...
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    Something from the same world as the one piece of actual writing I've done on the forum: The Kingdom of Caledonia, 2019 Legal Parties The Caledonian League - Oh, look, they've won again. I'm sure the fact that the new seat boundaries are based on land area, not population, the mass voter roll...
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    Some (incredibly soft) AH from a world where, amongst many other things, cars never caught on beyond being luxury items. Since their establishment by the Rationalist government in the 1920s, the Metropolitan Transport Authorities have been the bedrock of local transportation in the Kingdom of...
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    Wisconsin, 1910, aka When Socialism Came to Milwaukee. The Social Democrats swept the city offices and won large numbers of state assemblymen as well as an extra state senate seat and a congressman. The mayor, Emil Seidel, is best known for serving as Eugene V. Debs' running mate for both of his...
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    Got a request to try and draw a fair map of Georgia. Turns out that's really hard, this is attempt number 9 and I'm still not really happy with it, mostly because of the hoops I had to jump through to create a VRA district in southwest Georgia that doesn't include Macon.
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    It's definitely San Juan you're talking about, and I really don't know - I think it's because it's so small, there were only about two thousand votes cast and the YES side won by eight hundred. You can see a similar thing for NO in Garfield County, but there were no thirty to forty percent yes...
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    Greenealogist Makes Maps (and is bad at thread titles)

    Washington state is unique in having legalised abortion through referendum, 49 years ago. There's a very detailed look at the campaign here, which I urge reading for context far beyond what I could give: http://depts.washington.edu/civilr/referendum20.htm. Thought it was an interesting look at a...
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