Alexander
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Cambridge native | Election mapmaker, writer, New England history lover | Pop music, tennis, & baseball enthusiast | Meeting someone new every day! | 🇮🇹🇺🇸
Cambridge, MA
Joined August 2015
I spent 50 days on the road this fall in the rural Midwest. What did I see and learn? Read on to find out.
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None of these words are in the Book of Mormon.
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RT @maxtmcc: NEW: our @SplitTicket_ deep dive into 2024 turnout. We find that Kamala Harris clearly had a turnout problem — but it likely d….
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Over the last year, I’ve made a very special group of friends. I wrote this essay as a tribute to their beautiful, inspiring world. I’d be honored if you gave it a read!. (link in the reply)
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RT @MassJumbo: For those of you not from Canton Massachusetts it’s truly impossible to understand the magnitude of this day. Truly the moon….
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Here's a more comprehensive table of notable American cities sorted by foreign-born population:
Some American cities have lots of immigrants; others have quite few. Here's a quick reference for you:
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Some American cities have lots of immigrants; others have quite few. Here's a quick reference for you:
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CARLITOS!!. Absolute magic from the man from Murcia. How could you ever do justice to that?!. Nothing like tennis. We're so lucky.
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On the flip side, Al Gore is the best-performing modern Dem. presidential candidate in much of Rhode Island (it was his best state in the nation!). Obama did best in heavily Hispanic Providence, while Biden ran ahead of both in each of RI's six most college-educated towns.
With its high white ethnic population, R.I. has become less Dem. of late; in most of the state, Trump is the best-performing modern GOPer. The Yankee bastion of Newport stands out, as do the state's two highest-college towns, Barrington & Jamestown. Romney nowhere to be seen.
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If you ever forget where the Italian belt is, all you need to do is take a walk around Boston; you’ll see a different variation of this every day at construction sites
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The answer is Erie NY!.
Today's demographics trivia:. What is the largest county to be both 10% Italian and 10% Polish?.
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City of Los Angeles (36% foreign-born). Harris: 976,781 (70.1%).Trump: 369,619 (26.5%).Harris +44. It was Biden +55 in 2020. A double-digit swing in a city that casts well over a million votes!.
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Today's demographics trivia:. What is the largest county to be both 10% Italian and 10% Polish?.
Today's demographics trivia:. Three of these cities have about the same foreign-born %, but one is significantly lower. Which is it?. Nashville.Atlanta.Salt Lake City.Columbus.
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Good rundown from @lxeagle17. This new data helps confirm it: low-college whites voted almost the same in 2020 and 2024. These places got WAY more Republican from 2012 to 2016, but have stabilized since.
The 2024 election was even weirder than we thought, @lxeagle17 of @SplitTicket_ writes.
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He’s outdone himself again. @Thorongil16, you are a force of nature!.
It's out! 80 years ago, in 1945, when WW II ended, East Prussia was wiped out. Historically the area was German but with sizable Lithuanian, Polish, and Masurian minorities. I have digitized the *entire* East Prussian census of 1905. Read more for never before seen maps:🧵
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RT @Thorongil16: Hey everyone,. I'm launching my substack for all my historical mapping stuff - first piece is going to launch soon. Please….
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The answer is Atlanta! Never underestimate how few immigrants live in the Deep South (plus, as an astute commenter pointed out, the first-gen communities in that area live in the suburbs). SLC - 15.4% foreign-born.Nashville - 15.1.Columbus - 14.4.Atlanta - 8.6.
Today's demographics trivia:. Three of these cities have about the same foreign-born %, but one is significantly lower. Which is it?. Nashville.Atlanta.Salt Lake City.Columbus.
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Although, of course, I do not (and never will) endorse calling Cambridge a suburb.
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