I had promised a summary of responses to my request for data on the 
partisan composition of state legislatures.  There are three items that may 
be of general interest and a fourth that might work for you.

	1.  Dean Burnham, now long ago, created such a data set now on ICPSR: 
ICPSR 16, Partisan Division of American State Governments, 1834-1985.  It 
needs updated and is reported to be hard to work with.

	2.  Second there is a new book that lloks great, and fills in holes in 
Dean's data set:

Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures:  A Year by Year Summary, 
1796?2006, by Michael J. Dubin

ISBN 978-0-7864-2914-1

<http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2914-1>

       	3.  State Politics and Policy Quarterly maintains a data web site, 
that, while the above are more appropriate for my particular purposes, 
could be just the answer for others:

<http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/SPPQ/sppq.shtml>


	4.  Several people sent me their own data sets (usually draw from 
Burnham's, I think), which was terrific.  Once I have these data (and some 
other data) in shape for general use, they will be put up on a web site for 
others to use.

Thank you all,
John

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