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Then and Now: Changes in Partisan Control in State Legislatures over a Half Century

Variability in the political landscape over a half-century is most clearly seen in the west and south. Concentrated areas of party control in 1954 have been dispersed with more than a two-fold increase in the number of state electorates opting for divided government.