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Data Journalism

·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·

Data Journalism

·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

·November 22, 2025·5 min read

The 2025 Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial elections and the American Nations

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·September 23, 2025·7 min read

Vaccinations and deaths: the Regional Geography of the Covid-19 pandemic

Public and official compliance with public health advice, vaccination rates, and Covid deaths varied widely across the regional cultures identified in the American Nations model

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

·April 1, 2026·11 min read

Which U.S. regions are bowling alone?: The regional geography of social capital

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·February 9, 2024·3 min read

The American Nations and the 50 States

Which regional culture controls each of the Fifty States and to what degree? We parsed 2020 census data to reveal present day state-level power dynamics

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

·December 8, 2025·4 min read

Regional differences in attitudes toward undocumented immigrants

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·May 30, 2026·4 min read

Trump’s support is in freefall in every American Nations region

Data from G. Elliott Morris’s model indicates the president is now underwater even in his final stronghold, Greater Appalachia

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism

·January 24, 2024·4 min read

How churches could help address the lowland South’s obesity and physical inactivity crises

In a new American Nations-powered study in the American Journal of Medicine, researchers find an opportunity to reach people where they are in the Deep South and Tidewater regions

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism

·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

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