Today is publication day for my new book Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America's Revolutionary Leaders. I'll be discussing it with Robert Doar at AEI's Hintz Book Forum this afternoon.

@admcrlsn Michigan has the second highest percentage of residents born in the state (LA is 1st). Not too surprising since MI's had little population growth since 1970 (from 8.9m to 10.1m). Possible problem for a newcomer, though he could say, I chose to come here."

@marcthiessen Possible explanation. Boomers, who backed Romney against Obama 2012, include old-fashioned Bush Republicans who don't like Trump and still favor racial quotas, which seemed necessary (and were instituted then) to help blacks circa 1967-70.

@jlippincott_ I'd stick with the (recent) ban on Confederate names. Better alternative: George Henry Thomas, a Virginian who stayed loyal and was a Union general, "the rock of Chickamauga," who destroyed the Confederate army of John Bell Hood.

@EsotericCD @NRO Note that Bibi's tie is Trump red and Trump's tie is Israeli blue.

Wow! CBS poll on Trump adm on DEI programs has 61% saying right amount or too little--including 63% of <30s, 24% of liberals, 30% of Democrats, 44% of blacks, 65% of Hispanics. Oh, also 52% of white college grads. Pretty close to a consensus.

@SeanTrende The late Civil War historian Williamson Murray argued for name change because Braxton Bragg was not only a Confederate rebel but "a disastrously incompetent general." Since the new name didn't stick, maybe a better idea to name it after a better Bragg.

@rtacket9 @jmart @DC_DeWitt @GovMikeDeWine Maybe not a disqualification. DeWine is 77.

@SeanTrende À natural policy in the 2030s for Trumpish Republicans facing a high-income-college-grad Democratic party.

The need for reform of the US air traffic control system is glaring obvious, as John Tierney points out. Trump I tried, with some Democratic support. No progress under ex-Sec'y Pete. Great opportunity for

What ties Donald Trump's flurry of proposals together? He's trying to create positive vibes--and seems to be succeeding, even if some items seem farfetched. I probe the issue in my latest Washington Examiner column.

@guypbenson Excellent article. Secretary Pete had an opportunity to make air traffic control a user-financed utility, as first proposed by the Clinton adm, advocated by Robert Poole with potential bipartisan support in Congress. Apparently too busy on cable TV hits.

The latest projection of 2030 reapportionment is good news for Republicans. TX+FL would have 76 EVs, the same as CA+NY. IL's 18 just 1> OH's 17, with the 4 other 10 largest states' 66 EVs all purple in 2024. In 2012-20, CA+NY=84, much > than TX+FL=67.

@Steve_Sailer Cleveland white ethnic wards used to be known as cosmo wards--short for cosmopolitan. But not meant as the opposite of provincial.

@KlingBlog Recommendation for time with your grandson: Try a Legos package--absorbing but not too complicated.

@jimgeraghty Good point on Juno Beach. The Canadians got farther inland the first day than Americans or Brits. At least one historian has written that the Canadians were the best Allied troops in WW2.

@KaeleyT The greatest harm of racial quotas and preferences is that they cast a cloud over the legitimate accomplishments of the intended beneficiaries. I try to *never* assume that someone is a quota beneficiary lest I do an injustice to that person.

@CTIronman @SidKhurana3607 One of the few Ford 76/Mondale 84 counties in US. Similarly, Washtenaw MI, home of Ford's alma mater University of Michigan, was Ford 76, Carter 80. In 2024 Washtenaw was 71% Harris, Marin 81% Harris.

@SidKhurana3607 @CTIronman My metro area definition included Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Solano and Sonoma as well. Only Santa Cruz (UCSC) went for Mondale. Santa Clara was 55-45 Reagan.

@CTIronman My crude calculations for 1984 D metro areas: Boston D+1 Cleveland D+1 San Francisco D+3 Washington D+7 Pittsburgh D+13 Perhaps Salena Zito can explain

@ericswalwell @davidhogg111 Is that the Hitler salute? I would think not.