The massive Democracy Fund / UCLA Nationscape polls show correlations between gun deaths, gun ownership rates, and attitudes toward various gun control measures.
Across various measures of social network participation and general trust, the Midlands, Yankeedom, and Left Coast top the charts, El Norte and Spanish Caribbean are at the rear.
America’s regional cultures followed their usual pattern, but there with big shifts in El Norte and Spanish Caribbean and in rural parts of other regions.
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
In November, Californians passed Proposition 50, redistricting the state's Congressional districts in response to Texas's extreme, mid-cycle gerrymander. Many Trump-supporting areas backed the move.
America’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them. We crunched the numbers to reveal the geography of firearm homicides and suicides.
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.
