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·November 8, 2017·9 min read

No, the Divide in American Politics Is Not Rural vs. Urban, and Here’s the Data to Prove It

For several years now, political journalists, analysts, and pundits have been arguing that U.S. politics has increasingly turned into a struggle between urban and rural voters. Regional differences were once paramount, Josh Kron observed in the Atlantic after the 2012 election.

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism

·May 29, 2022·1 min read

Population Figures for the American Nations, 2020 Census Edition

For those with an interest in the regional model set forth in American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, here are population figures for the U.S. portions of each of the nations as per the 2020 census and the rate of growth or loss for each since the 2010 census.

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·November 7, 2022·7 min read

The American Nations and the Geography of Covid-19 Vaccinations

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·February 13, 2023·7 min read

The 2022 Midterms and the American Nations: regional differences trump rural/urban divide most everywhere, with a couple of important exceptions

Centuries-old settlement geography can still be contemporary elections, accounting for tectonic divisions within key states. In statewide races, Democrats often lost urban counties in the resultant “red” regional cultures and won the rural ones in “blue” regions.

Colin Woodard·

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·March 27, 2023·8 min read

Regional differences in perceptions of the threats to U.S. democracy

A Cornell-IOPGA poll examined Americans’ attitudes toward various alleged threats to the republic with special emphasis on two swing districts; here’s how the results broke down via the American Nations model

Colin Woodard·

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·April 21, 2023·27 min read

The Geography of U.S. Gun Violence

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·June 6, 2023·6 min read

What a giant 2020 polling effort tells us about regional differences in gun ownership, attitudes to gun control, and the geography of violence

The massive Democracy Fund / UCLA Nationscape polls show correlations between gun deaths, gun ownership rates, and attitudes toward various gun control measures.

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·July 17, 2023·4 min read

The Regional Geography of Unhealthy Living Characteristics

Researchers from Nationhood Lab, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the University of Minnesota found stark differences in obesity, diabetes, and exercise across the American Nations in Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases.

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·August 29, 2023·17 min read

The Regional Geography of U.S. Life Expectancy

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·November 16, 2023·7 min read

The Hidden Tribes and the American Nations

More in Common's incisive Hidden Tribes -- and the underlying value sets and moral foundations they encode --are distributed differently across the United States' distinct regional cultures.

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·November 27, 2023·6 min read

Ohio’s abortion vote and the American Nations

Buckeye State voters passed a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights, but the results varied across the state’s three settlement regions...

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