Woodard says: 'The borders of my eleven American nations are reflected in many different types of maps - including maps showing the distribution of linguistic dialects, the spread of cultural artifacts, the prevalence of different religious denominations, and the county-by-county breakdown of voting in virtually every hotly contested presidential race in our history.'
Friday, November 15, 2013
Which Of The 11 American Nations Do You Live In?
Red states and blue states? Flyover country and the coasts? How
simplistic. Colin Woodard, a reporter at the Portland Press Herald and
author of several books, says North America can be broken neatly into 11
separate nation-states, where dominant cultures explain their voting
behaviors and attitudes toward everything from social issues to the role
of government.
Woodard says: 'The borders of my eleven American nations are reflected in many different types of maps - including maps showing the distribution of linguistic dialects, the spread of cultural artifacts, the prevalence of different religious denominations, and the county-by-county breakdown of voting in virtually every hotly contested presidential race in our history.'
Woodard says: 'The borders of my eleven American nations are reflected in many different types of maps - including maps showing the distribution of linguistic dialects, the spread of cultural artifacts, the prevalence of different religious denominations, and the county-by-county breakdown of voting in virtually every hotly contested presidential race in our history.'
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