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Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·July 22, 2026·2 min read

For TPM: the America250 commission’s deeply flawed Christian Nationalist comic book history series

The Congressionally-constituted America250 commission licensed the series to an evangelical Christian comics publisher, pushing a deeply-distorted, evidence-challenged account of the nation's founding and constitution.
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedUpdates
·January 23, 2026·2 min read

In Poland, Woodard shares Nationhood Lab’s work with scholars, students, officials and the media

January 20, 2025 WARSAW, POLAND – Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard spent last week in Poland, presenting the project’s work to students, scholars, diplomats and public officials and appearing on all three of the country’s competing nationwide television networks.
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·October 21, 2024·8 min read

Texan political tribes and the American Nations

Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·November 5, 2025·1 min read

NY Times OpEd: America isn’t a blood-and-soil nation

In the New York Times, Nationhood Lab's director counters Vice President J.D. Vance's argument that being American is about having the right ancestry, rather than fealty to the ideals in the Declaration of Independence
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·
FeaturedIn the News
·July 6, 2026·1 min read

Nationhood Lab director discusses US history with Politico and the BBC

Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·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 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
·June 29, 2024·18 min read

Immigration and the American Nations

Colin Woodard·
FeaturedUpdates
·March 12, 2025·4 min read

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

The broadly accepted narrative is rooted in the civic ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·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 JournalismFeatured
·September 17, 2024·6 min read

Survey results: Americans overwhelmingly oppose election subversion, book bans, but split on partisan lines over voter suppression and presidents being above law

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    • A New National Narrative
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  • ABOUT US
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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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