Someone asked for a more recent Iowa poll. Here you are: "A poll released Thursday of Iowa voters found that, among Republicans, former president Donald Trump maintains a dominant lead in the da… (View Post)

Off topic: MoonRabbit - If you are interested in Lincoln and the US Civil War, may I suggest that you read some of the classic works on it, for example, Sandburg's biography of Lincoln, or Bruce Catt… (View Post)

Measuring US crime rates. We aren't very good at it. There are two main measures; both have problems. And sometimes they contradict each other: "The United States has two primary ways of measuri… (View Post)

Here, I think, is a useful test for thinking about "classification" in the US. Would you have voted for Washington state's Initiative 200? 'Initiative 200 was a Washington state initiative … (View Post)

Off topic but about the politics of immigration in the US: There is much to learn in this Wikipedia article on E-Verify: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Verify For example: "Research shows that … (View Post)