“for more than 150 years”
Adoption curve: how many independent members of each party used this exact phrase, by day. Where at least three distinct offices can be grounded, peak-day source receipts appear below.
Democrats Republicans
- First recorded in our corpus
- 2025-02-06 by member name unavailable (tied with member name unavailable)
- Peak
- 10 members in one day · 2026-06-30
- Distinctiveness
- The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
- Data points
- 11 active days
Peak-day evidence
On 2026-06-30, this exact phrase is grounded in 11 distinct source units (an office or joint-release family). The Peak figure above is the largest count for either party; this evidence total counts grounded units across both parties on that same day. Showing 3 of 11 source receipts. (D: 11)
Public Stage-1 phrase statistics begin 2025-01-03. Coverage for the same window is shown on the Methodology page. (The full-history “Alexandria” backfill to 2001 is staged for a later phase.)