Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows the congressional election where the most Republicans won seats (1920) and the where the Democrats won the most seats (just 16 years later in 1936).
In 1920, the Republicans won 302 seats compared to just 131 for the Democrats. But in 1936 the Democrats surpassed the Republican high-water mark winning 334 seats to just 88 for the Republicans (Progressives also 7 seats and 3 went to Farmer–Labor).
Here are the totals for all states for both years:
The map above looks at the Odds Trump will mention a country or US State in his State of The Union Address. The data comes from prediction market sites Polymarket and Kalshi.
Here’s the full list of locations with the odds as of Feb 23rd (odds may have since changed):
The map above shows the number of times each country’s name appears in the Epstein files. I had an idea to do a similar map, but then I saw that reddit user Extreme-Shopping74 had beat me to.
Here are a few key things from the map:
The map above compares non-inflation adjusted house prices by state in 2000 vs House prices in December 2025 according to Zillow’s All Home Index.
In 2000, not a single state had average home prices above $200k, the closest was Massachusetts at $192,616.
However, by 2026 only 2 states had average home prices below $200k: Mississippi and West Virginia.
Here’s the data below, including raw numbers, inflation adjusted numbers and 2026 numbers:
At this stage you’ve no doubt seen the meme that Trump only wants Greenland because of how much bigger it looks using the Mercator Projection:
From the author of the map:
The short video above shows Jason Girouard’s amazing run around all of Manhattan’s Streets. You can read the full story here, and here’s the main details:
The map above shows the IMF’s estimated US Government spending (Federal, State and Local) as share of GDP over the past 223 years.
Here’s the data for all years:
The map above shows the natural habitat of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula). It has one of the most restricted natural habitats of any plant on Earth, and that’s the main reason why its total wild range is so small.
Here’s why:
The poster above titled: EQUAL RIGHTS FOR NEGROES !EVERYWHERE!, SELF DETERMINATION for the BLACK BELT, VOTE COMMUNIST was for the 1932 US election.
Ford who was running as Vice President, was the first African American in history to be included on a presidential ticket.
More about the election: