Reconstruction and the modern map

Planned This chapter has not been written. It is listed so the book shows its full scope.

The question

How does the Southern county map of the 1870s relate to the map of 2024?

The data

• County election returnsYears: President 1868-2024 (40 elections); House and Senate 1990-2024
• County demographics panelYears: 2000-2024 (election years, interpolated between census and survey anchors)

county-returnscounty-demographics

The scope

Places Each row of the data is a place such as a county or a neighborhood, so results describe places. They do not describe the people in them.

The chapter sits in Part X, The nationalized map, the political map. Its unit of analysis is places. See how the book treats evidence.

The part has an explorer: Elections, 1976 to 2024.