How Republican or Democratic is your name?

If you keep scrolling, you can look up the rightward or leftward lean of your first name and surname.

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Three Amish boys near the town of Leola, Pa., in August 1997. Unsurprisingly, the most Republican surnames tend to lean Amish. (Keith Baum/AP)

As far as we can tell, the No. 1 perk of writing for The Washington Post isn’t the parties you’re invited to or the celebrities you meet — though this may be because invitations addressed to the resident data dork seem to get lost in the mail.

No, the top perquisite in our view is access to the voter file, a compendium of 212 million registered voters.

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