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Data Journalism

Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·July 29, 2024·14 min read

Geography of Environmentalism, Climate Action and Climate Denial

There's a regional gap on climate change which mirrors a "green gap" that goes back nearly two centuries. Nationhood Lab explores the reasons why.
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·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
·December 8, 2025·4 min read

Regional differences in attitudes toward undocumented immigrants

Colin Woodard·
Data Journalism
·December 4, 2024·10 min read

The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations

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.
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·June 28, 2024·3 min read

The American Nations and the States: Change over time

We previously parsed 2020 census data to reveal present day state-level power dynamics. Now we've done the same for 1900 and 1950, revealing remarkable stability in most states, and dramatic shifts in others.
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 JournalismFeatured
·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 JournalismFeatured
·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 JournalismFeatured
·December 17, 2025·3 min read

Blue Shift: California’s redistricting ballot measure converts its Far West section

Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·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
·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 JournalismFeaturedUncategorized
·April 21, 2023·27 min read

The Geography of U.S. Gun Violence

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Nationhood Lab
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    • An Authoritarian Threat
    • A Balkanized Federation
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  • OUR WORK
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    • A New National Narrative
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    • Updates
  • ABOUT US
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