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How the Republican Electoral Map Moved Across Four Eras from 1896 to 2016A table of four Republican maps from 1896 to 2016, why states changed sides, and six cautions before you read anything into a map.The Republican Mayors Who Proved a Big City Could Be Governed AgainIn the 1990s three Republican mayors ran cities everyone called unmanageable; here is what they did, what the critics said and what a city cannot copy.Edward Brooke won Massachusetts as a Republican and changed public housingBrooke was the first Black senator elected by popular vote, and he used the seat to change the law on fair housing and public-housing rents.Margaret Chase Smith took on Joe McCarthy from inside her own party in 1950A Maine senator proved you can fight communism and still object to a colleague's methods, and she said so on the Senate floor.