New issue! includes articles from bsky-ers @johnadearborn.bsky.social @uhackett.bsky.social @trounstine.bsky.social @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social @ayakohiramatsu.bsky.social and much more!

This looks fascinating! Excited to read

thanks to you both!

New in first view with open access! How partisans gerrymandered southern states in current.... whoops, we mean post-Reconstruction South. Parallels, maybe? Excellent new work from @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social

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#OpenAccess from @studiesapd.bsky.social -

Redrawing the South: County Creation as a Partisan Tool during Reconstruction - cup.org/4m98qCE

- @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social

#FirstView

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#OpenAccess from the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics -

Federal Enforcement and Black Political Representation: Evidence from Reconstruction and the Voting Rights Act - cup.org/4drlmAz

- @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social & Jasmine Carrera Smith

#FirstView #JREP10

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Hard copies of my Element on bathrooms and politics have arrived to grace the department book wall!

"Renters so far have been snapping up whatever hits the market, putting a floor on rent declines. That would suggest that higher rents are being supported by higher-income renters." I do not follow the logic in this piece at all.

On March 5, 1888, Henry Cabot Lodge commented on the changing forms of disfranchisement in the South. Noted that by design they aimed to not wake the apathetic forces of democracy from their slumber

They're in the business of business!

Getting away from the news was rewarded with a nice sheep sighting on today’s ride

Poll Finds Latimer with a 17 Point Lead Over Bowman for Congress | Yonkers Times “It’s simple: George Latimer is highly regarded, while Jamaal Bowman is widely unpopular.”--DMFI PAC Chairman Mark Mellman Today, DMFI PAC released the findings of a comprehensive new poll showing Wes...

No doubt AIPAC was important (they recruited Latimer to run!), but I don't think its testable if Bowman wins w/o AIPAC spending... Latimer had opened a major lead in polls before AIPAC even started spending in earnest (if I have the timeline correct) yonkerstimes.com/poll-finds-l...

Famously good strategy

"Researchers... found that alfalfa — used as feed for beef and dairy cows — sucks up more water than all the cities and industries in the enormous Colorado River Basin."

this is some stick stuff, even for California

Really pleased that my article with the incredibly kind, brilliant, insightful, and hireable Nico de la Cerda (EJPR) is now online (open access) at the EJPR. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Thats a good idea, CO politics definitely particularly finicky around "more state power"

I am a huge Fischel fan. His research on county development has been especially influential in my own work.

Thats a fair point, Eric (and I didn't choose the title!!). I guess its a matter of understanding the geographic context of "backyard." I was considering Denver at-large the backyard for homeowners. But perhaps I should rethink that!

Opinion: It might actually be the NIMBYs Denver voters rejected a plan to turn a golf course into housing. I wanted to find out why. The results were textbook.

Denver had a chance to build some badly needed housing, but voters rejected a proposal to do just that. I was curious why. #copolitics
coloradosun.com/2023/10/13/o...

Map of South Carolina's congressional districts, which were enacted by Republicans after the 2020 census.

NEW: The Supreme Court may make it harder to challenge racial gerrymandering by Republicans after it heard a case involving South Carolina's congressional map on Wednesday www.dailykos.com/stories/2023...

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Hi, Bluesky.

We’re The Colorado Sun, a newsroom owned and operated by local journalists and funded by our readers.

We cover this whole big, beautiful state, so come along while we try to add some real local news to your timeline!

Hey at this point there is no better place to reach anti-semites than Twitter

A few years ago Gibbs Knotts, Jordan Ragusa & I published a piece on gubernatorial appointments of U.S. Senators that seems relevant to the conversation about Feinstein's potential replacement:

Polisky

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got up early enough to catch sunrise over the Valdez Wilderness... The lighting and color this time of year is spectacular

25 years of American Politics Research Group (APRG) at UNC this week! Great to spend time with the kindest people in the biz