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Notice that Fairfield County, CT -- or whatever they're calling that "planning district" now -- is NY Yankee country, which is consistent with it being in New Netherland in #AmericanNations.

All those Obama>Obama>Trump>Trump>Trump counties in the bottom left corner, flipping blue, as I said they would once residents finally grasped Trump had been lying to them in 2016, with his communitarian promises (reindustrialization, cheaper/better health insurance, drain swap etc) #AmericanNations

More evidence for the reversal of rural Yankee support for Trumpism, as they realize he’s not doing what he said he would do for them back in 2016 (re: rust belt revival, better/cheaper healthcare, farming, etc) #AmericanNations

Which U.S. regions are bowling alone?: The regional geography of social capital Across various measures of social network participation and general trust, the Midlands, Yankeedom, and Left Coast top the charts, El Norte and Spanish Caribbean are at the rear.

What U.S. regions are "bowling alone"? We look at the #AmericanNations and social capita in various ways and find Yankeedom, Midlands, Left Coast generally at the top, El Norte and Sp. Carib at the bottom, "southern" regions in between.

www.nationhoodlab.org/which-u-s-re...

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Regional differences in excessive drinking Researchers from Nationhood Lab, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the HealthPartners Institute found significant differences in excessive drinking across the American Nations regional cultures ...

Our new research paper in @plosone.org looks at regional differences in excessive drinking, which breaks from the usual pattern we see with health & the #AmericanNations. Yankeedom does poorly, G.Appalachia well, for instance. Write up with link to the article: www.nationhoodlab.org/regional-dif...

Is Trump’s support faltering in every region save Greater Appalachia? Detailed approval estimates from G. Elliott Morris suggest Trump’s autocratic behavior suggest a sharp drop his support in the swing regions, Deep South, and exurban Yankeedom

If @gelliottmorris.com's local Trump approval estimates are even half right, the president has rapidly reshaped the political map... against him and his allies. Some #AmericanNations regional analysis of the former 538 chief's findings:

www.nationhoodlab.org/is-trumps-su...

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What Trump is forgetting: American nations have a long history of open borders The US cites the ‘wisdom’ of historical immigration policy. But nation states in the Americas have spent more time with open borders than closed Late last year, Donald Trump’s White House published a...

What Trump is forgetting: American nations have a long history of open borders
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I just wanted to let you know that I am almost done with reading @colinwoodard.bsky.social's book #NationsApart, a sequel to his 2011 book #AmericanNations.

If you have read either of these books, what are your thoughts on Woodard's theories?

The Demward shift in reaction to Trump2 is real, #NJgov edition. Twelve years ago Chris Christie won NJ's Midland section by 32 points. Last month, the R candidate lost it by 1.3. #AmericanNations analysis via @pellcenter.bsky.social's Nationhood Lab: www.nationhoodlab.org/the-2025-vir...

Are America's divisions really about red versus blue? Historian and bestselling author Colin Woodard argues America's divide isn’t red vs. blue at all — it’s a clash of distinct cultural nations.

Spoke to @iowapublicradio.org's River to River about Nations Apart, how we got here as a country, and what we can do about it. Also the importance of Iowa and the Midlands generally to understanding the direction of American politics via #AmericanNations: www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/rive...

The 2025 Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections and the American Nations This month’s votes followed the usual regional lines, but with shifts toward Democrats even in rural Appalachia

How'd the Virginia gubernatorial election stack up, in regional and urban/rural terms, to the 2021 and 2017 contests? The answers to your pressing questions here, via @pellcenter.bsky.social's Nationhood Lab and #AmericanNations: www.nationhoodlab.org/the-2025-vir...

Great turnout to hear @colinwoodard.bsky.social f#nationhoodlab @salvereginauni.bsky.social @pellcenter.bsky.social give a turbo tour of #AmericanNations #nationsapart - history, data, context - best books to understand our current national dysfunction... #portlandmaine #civiceducation

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NAE president lists challenges to modern Evangelical movement in the US National Association of Evangelicals President Walter Kim has laid out the major challenges that he believes the modern Evangelical movement is experiencing in the United States

Asked about the greatest challenges to their faith, National Association of Evangelicals president Walter Kim dives straight into #AmericanNations and the resultant fragmentation of the tradition: www.christianpost.com/news/nae-pre...

Oh, good, was looking for somebody to mention #AmericanNations in here. Thank you for your service to the thread. 🫡

This is aiming for a higher degree of resolution than the "dominant regional cultures of North America" in #AmericanNations and, broadly speaking, ain't bad. I think it captures some things very well, but misses a few really important, domain-level distinctions and continuities.

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1. I argue that, in #AmericanNations (First Effective Settlement) terms, the "Midwest" is really the western portions of 3-4 culture regions. But if you must create one, this isn't terrible.

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Wellbeing across the American Nations: First Settler Effects influence traditional and existential wellness This study investigates the “First Settler Wellness Effect,” exploring how cultural geography impacts traditional wellness (physical health, social relationships, and financial stability) and existent...

Joined @utoronto.ca anthropologists to look at Gallup's wellbeing index across the #AmericanNations. Southern "honor" cultures poor on traditional metrics, but good in self-assessed meaning/purpose. Northern "dignity" cultures were opposite. Details @plosone.org: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Untested Hypothesis: a New Netherland effect at work here. #AmericanNations

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Ever wish you had a map of the 2024 US prez election AND 2025 Canadian federal election results via the #AmericanNations map? If so, I like you already. And here you go, via Nationhood Lab @pellcenter.bsky.social:

The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations, updated An updated regional breakdown of the last US election to include Alaska results and the final results for greater New York City and beyond

Took advantage of the summer lull to run the final, official tallies of the 2024 US prez election -- including Alaska this time -- through the #AmericanNations model. Bottom line: despite the astronomical stakes, it was very much like two elections before it.

www.nationhoodlab.org/the-2024-pre...

The American Nations regions across North America Nationhood Lab recently mapped the regional cultures across Canada, Greenland, Northern Mexico and parts of the Caribbean, allowing the American Nations analytical model to be used for cross-country c...

#AmericanNations traced the history of the rival regional cultures of North America, but we've never had a proper, continent-scale map of them...until now.

www.nationhoodlab.org/the-american...

Typo: should be #AmericanNations