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Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·August 31, 2025·3 min read

The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations, updated

An updated regional breakdown of the last US election to include Alaska results and the final results for greater New York City and beyond
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·August 13, 2025·2 min read

The American Nations regions across North America

Nationhood Lab recently mapped the regional cultures across Canada, Greenland, Northern Mexico and parts of the Caribbean, allowing the American Nations analytical model to be used for cross-country comparisons.
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·July 15, 2025·1 min read

Sharing our rebooted national story — and why we need one — on PBS’s “Story in the Public Square”

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·
FeaturedIn the News
·June 27, 2025·1 min read

There’s still a shared American story, Woodard argues in an essay for AEI

Nationhood Lab's director shares the project's findings on a rebooted U.S. national narrative for the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·June 10, 2025·6 min read

Canada’s 2025 Election and the American Nations

Colin Woodard·
FeaturedUpdates
·May 28, 2025·3 min read

Scientific Papers lay out the American Nations paradigm for health and medical researchers

In a series of recent peer-reviewed journal articles, Nationhood Lab and its research collaborators presented the American Nations model and its utility for understanding U.S. health patterns
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·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·
FeaturedUpdates
·March 12, 2025·4 min read

Nationhood Lab research finds most Americans share a common vision for the United States

Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·March 4, 2025·5 min read

The Geography of Household Credit, Debt, and Delinquency`

As the U.S economy shudders, families in individualistic regions generally have far less room to maneuver than their counterparts in communitarian cultures
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·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·
FeaturedIn the News
·November 4, 2024·1 min read

New York Times interviews Nationhood Lab director about origins, meaning of U.S. regional terminology

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  • THE CHALLENGE
    • An Authoritarian Threat
    • A Balkanized Federation
    • A Lost National Narrative
  • OUR WORK
    • Data Journalism
    • A New National Narrative
    • Research and Publications
    • Initiatives
  • NEWS AND UPDATES
    • In the News
    • Updates
  • ABOUT US
    • The Project
    • Project Director
    • Advisory Council
  • CONTACT
  • PELL CENTER
Nationhood Lab
  • THE CHALLENGE
    • An Authoritarian Threat
    • A Balkanized Federation
    • A Lost National Narrative
  • OUR WORK
    • Data Journalism
    • A New National Narrative
    • Research and Publications
    • Initiatives
  • NEWS AND UPDATES
    • In the News
    • Updates
  • ABOUT US
    • The Project
    • Project Director
    • Advisory Council
  • CONTACT
  • PELL CENTER
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