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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 Featured

·October 21, 2024·8 min read

Texan political tribes and the American Nations

More in Common’s Threads of Texas project found seven distinct groups of Texans; we explored how they’re distributed geographically and within the state’s Latino community

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·July 29, 2024·14 min read

Geography of Environmentalism, Climate Action and Climate Denial

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

·July 1, 2025·4 min read

The American Nations in Canada

North America's regional cultures rarely respect current boundaries, and the ones separating the U.S. and Canadian federations are no exception

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·August 13, 2025·2 min read

The American Nations regions across North America

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·March 26, 2024·3 min read

How Gun violence is helping drive diabetes and other chronic diseases in the southern American Nations regions

In a new study in the American Journal of Medicine, Nationhood Lab’s director and his collaborators find evidence linking firearm fatalities and physical inactivity in the American Nations regions, most especially in the Dixie bloc, El Norte, and First Nation

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 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 Featured

·May 24, 2024·23 min read

Abortion’s Regional Divide

Centuries-old settlement patterns created the geographic contours of the contemporary abortion debate, corrosive effects on the bonds that hold the union together

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·December 29, 2023·5 min read

Social vulnerability, health outcomes and the American Nations

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