Category Archives: Mapping Congress

Virginia Senators

Posted on November 6, 2012 by LaDale Winling

While Virginia had very Democratic Senators in the first part of the century, from the election of Harry Byrd, the state’s Senate Delegation became much more conservative, though for most of the 20th century the seats remained Democratic. Only recently, … Continue reading →

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Virginia 9th Congressional District

Posted on November 5, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Working with some DW-NOMINATE data, I plotted the ideological rank of the Congressional Representative for VA-9, where Blacksburg and Virginia Tech are. We can see that the current representative, Morgan Griffith, is the most conservative representative of the district since … Continue reading →

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