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Every scale belongs in the same picture.
Nation, state, county, city, metro, market, district, precinct, block, and the Places you define yourself.
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Elections, demographics, geography, and history become one coherent picture — from the entire nation to the exact community that matters to you.
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Akashic National Atlas
United States · political geography
Atlas online
Current instrument
The entire country, ready to interrogate
Election record1892–2024
Geographic resolutionNation → local
Underlying figuresSource-linked
System coverage
Political history
Demographic context
Custom geography
02 · Long memory
Political change is a story, not a snapshot.
Follow the presidential record from 1892 through 2024, then connect modern returns to the people and places underneath them.
03 · Verifiable
Every important figure keeps its source.
Akashic is built for readers who need beauty and rigor at once: explicit methods, named origins, and data that can be checked.
One country · every scale
Zoom out. Drill down. Never lose the story.
Akashic treats every geography as part of one connected national system. Start broad, move local, and carry the same visual language and analytical context with you at every level.
01
The nation
The complete American political landscape in one national plate, from the popular vote to regional realignment.
02Every state
Fifty distinct political systems, each with its own long election record, internal coalitions, and demographic structure.
03Every county
All counties and county equivalents, with presidential history reaching back to 1892 and modern demographic detail.
04Cities and towns
The places where political change becomes visible first — major cities, suburbs, exurbs, and small towns nationwide.
05Every district
Congressional and state legislative districts rendered as places with their own vote, people, history, and political context.
06Your own Places
Draw any political geography you can imagine — contiguous or not, within one state or across the entire country.
Instruments for understanding
Move from curiosity to clarity.
The atlas is more than a library of pages. Map the country, compare places, construct a new geography, or ask the corpus a direct question.
Explore
Map the country
Move through election years and thematic layers on a nationwide political map built for close reading.
Analyze
Compare any two places
Put margins, trends, demographics, and the long political arc side by side without losing context.
Create
Build a custom Place
Combine counties or draw a shape anywhere in America, then let Akashic calculate the place beneath it.
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Ask a question in plain English and receive an answer grounded in Akashic pages and cited source material.
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Akashic Editions · premium narrative profiles
The narrative edition of the atlas.
An Edition layers a full-length, fully sourced profile onto a place page — how the place came to vote the way it does, who lives there now, what it makes, and what to watch next — over the same tables and maps the atlas already keeps.
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United States
1
The national rollup across all Census regions.
USA →
Census regions
4
Four state rollups: Northeast, Midwest, South, and West.
Midwest →
Census divisions
9
Nine finer Census groupings nested inside the four regions.
New England →
American Nations
13
Colin Woodard’s rival regional cultures of North America, mapped county by county.
Yankeedom →
States
50
Aggregated from constituent counties. DC is counted as a county equivalent, not a state.
Illinois →
Counties
3,143
Every county and county-equivalent — parishes, boroughs, planning regions — with the full 1892–2024 record.
Cook County →
Cities
6,753
Incorporated places over 5,000 residents — modern-era results + ACS demographics.
New York →
Metro areas
918
Core-based statistical areas — metropolitan plus micropolitan.
Chicago metro →
Combined statistical areas
180
Linked metro + micro areas — “Greater New York,” the Bay Area.
Greater New York →
Media markets
208
Nielsen DMAs — the unit ad buyers think in.
Atlanta DMA →
Congressional districts
435
120th Congress. DC’s delegate seat is listed but not counted as a district.
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State senate districts
1,942
Upper chamber, every state.
State house districts
4,833
Lower chamber, every state.