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·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

·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

·June 29, 2024·18 min read

Immigration and the American Nations

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...

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·March 7, 2026·4 min read

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 in a new paper published in the academic journal PLOS One

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 23, 2026·5 min read

Persistent poverty varies massively across U.S. regions

It’s essentially non-existent at the county level in some regions, and hardly uncommon in others

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

·April 19, 2025·7 min read

Intergenerational economic mobility and the American Nations regional cultures

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism

·December 11, 2023·2 min read

The Regional Geography of Disability in the United States

Researchers from Nationhood Lab, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the HealthPartners Institute found significant differences in the prevalence of disabilities...

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 Featured

·October 21, 2024·8 min read

Texan political tribes and the American Nations

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