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

#OpenAccess from @studiesapd.bsky.social - Redrawing the South: County Creation as a Partisan Tool during Reconstruction - cup.org/4m98qCE - @michaelgreenberger.bsky.social #FirstView

#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

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

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

"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/...

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...

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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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 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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