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Data Journalism

·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 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

·January 24, 2024·4 min read

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

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

·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

·March 27, 2023·8 min read

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

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

·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

·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 Featured

·June 22, 2026·3 min read

The Geography of MAGA

Self-identified MAGAs are not evenly distributed across America's regions, with six times as many per capita in the Deep South compared to New Netherland

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·September 3, 2026·6 min read

Study finds prevalence of many types of OCD vary by American Nations region

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