The map is correct but as usual with these discussions it must be understood that the parties themselves will change in order to approach 50/50 https://twitter.com/NickJFuentes/status/926289861765722112 …
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are you making an empirical claim?
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Sure, that in a first past the post winner take all voting system there will tend to form two parties that over time tend to average around 50% each See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law …
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the evidence for Duverger's "law" is not very good, unfortunately. Even by the modest standards of poli sci
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I know this is supposedly "political science", but it's more of a natural result of the statistics of coalitions splitting and regrouping https://authors.library.caltech.edu/81155/
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