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Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·November 16, 2023·7 min read

The Hidden Tribes and the American Nations

More in Common's incisive Hidden Tribes -- and the underlying value sets and moral foundations they encode --are distributed differently across the United States' distinct regional cultures.
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
·May 24, 2024·23 min read

Abortion’s Regional Divide

Colin Woodard·
FeaturedUpdates
·November 20, 2025·2 min read

Nationhood Lab director shares project’s work at New America, Salve, Politics & Prose and beyond

November 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab is on tour promoting Nations Apart: How...
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·July 2, 2023·2 min read

How a “freedom-and-fairness” agenda help can save the U.S. republic and federation

In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab's director outlines a policy agenda to shore up U.S. democracy and beat back the authoritarian threat to the country
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·December 29, 2023·5 min read

Social vulnerability, health outcomes and the American Nations

Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·July 17, 2023·4 min read

The Regional Geography of Unhealthy Living Characteristics

Researchers from Nationhood Lab, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the University of Minnesota found stark differences in obesity, diabetes, and exercise across the American Nations in Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases.
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 JournalismFeatured
·November 27, 2023·6 min read

Ohio’s abortion vote and the American Nations

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
·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

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Nationhood Lab
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    • 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
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    • Updates
  • ABOUT US
    • The Project
    • Project Director
    • Advisory Council
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