This website has compiled all of the State of the Union addresses in U.S. history and then analyzed them, visualizing the most-used words in a “tag cloud.” Very interesting and surprisingly telling.
Check it out: U.S. Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
There is a little slider in the upper-right that allows you to scroll backwards in time through different presidents and speeches. Something that immediately jumped out at me was the frequency of the word “Constitution” in the earlier speeches, and its complete absence in recent years. Starting in about 1990, the word “Constitution” doesn’t show up in any of the speeches. Should that tell us something?
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1 Christopher Jagge // Jan 9, 2007 at 5:25 pm
I love it! Notice how “economic” and “family” get more intense over time.
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