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After the 2020 Census, the official apportionment shifted the 435 House seats: and . Those reapportionment changes were implemented beginning with the 2022 congressional elections and continued to sha...
Southern white voters began a measurable, decades-long shift from the Democratic Party toward the Republican Party starting in the mid-20th century, with as parties realigned over civil rights and sta...
The Electoral College can change who wins the presidency by translating nationwide votes into state-by-state electoral votes, enabling outcomes where the and concentrating power in a subset of states ...
The central claim is correct in broad outline: , and Strom Thurmond’s formal change in 1964 is a canonical example of that shift. Contemporary scholarship and historical summaries in the supplied anal...
August Belmont was a German‑Jewish immigrant who built a major New York banking house and opposed slavery in principle while prioritizing the preservation of the Union and commercial ties with the Sou...
The Insurrection Act has been invoked in response to 30 distinct crises over the past two centuries, and those invocations were issued by a limited number of presidents (with one Army general acting o...
Across 2019–2022 the pandemic produced the steepest single‑year declines in male life expectancy in U.S. history and a partial rebound in 2022, but the public reporting available in these sources does...
Population flows since 2020—accelerated by remote work, housing costs and the pandemic—have moved many residents from dense, traditionally Democratic metros toward Sun Belt and suburban destinations, ...
Demographic factors — especially age and sex — and geography — city vs. rural, state and region — strongly shape who commits and experiences serious crimes in 2025: males and young adults dominate vio...
The reporting and analyses present two competing narratives about 2025 SSDI changes: one paints deep cuts to eligibility that could deny benefits to hundreds of thousands, especially older and regiona...
Southern Democrats were the principal congressional bloc resisting major civil‑rights legislation in the 1960s: they largely opposed early federal measures in 1957–60, mounted a prolonged Senate filib...
No — the available indicators and expert surveys do not support the claim that California is the single most corrupt state in the U.S.; different measures point to different places (D.C., parts of the...
Since 2016 the national picture has shifted: violent crime rose through 2016 and peaked around 2020–2021 before falling in 2022–2023, while property crime generally trended downward across the same mu...
Gerrymandering nationally in 2024 is estimated to give Republicans a roughly 16-seat advantage in the House, driven mainly by aggressive GOP maps in the South and Midwest rather than Democratic maps i...
Historical currents feeding U.S. Christian nationalism span centuries: such as televangelism, the Moral Majority, and the Christian Coalition. These layered influences converged with partisan realignm...
Gerrymandering materially tilted the 2024 U.S. House playing field toward Republicans, with multiple post-redistricting analyses concluding the maps delivered an relative to neutral maps. Courts, stat...
Federal and research estimates for 2022–2023 converge on a clear pattern: , and policy restrictions on eligibility for Medicaid, CHIP, and Marketplace subsidies are central drivers. Urban Institute, K...
Christian nationalism is a political ideology that seeks to fuse Christian identity with national identity and public policy, producing tangible effects on law, culture, and democratic norms across ti...