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Data Journalism

·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

·December 11, 2023·2 min read

The Regional Geography of Disability in the United States

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

·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

·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

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·April 19, 2025·7 min read

Intergenerational economic mobility and the American Nations regional cultures

Repeating part of Raj Chetty's classic study using the American Nations model revealed strong differences across U.S. regional cultures, with southern regions performing worst

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·

Data Journalism Featured

·August 29, 2023·17 min read

The Regional Geography of U.S. Life Expectancy

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·December 29, 2023·5 min read

Social vulnerability, health outcomes and the American Nations

In a new study in the American Journal of Medicine, Nationhood Lab’s Colin Woodard and his collaborators find evidence for...

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 Featured

·June 29, 2024·18 min read

Immigration and the American Nations

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