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·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·

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·August 29, 2024·8 min read

Survey results: Authoritarian mindsets and the American Nations regions

Our national survey found the Deep South and Left Coast are polar opposites when it comes to right-wing authoritarian mindsets, but that Yankeedom and Greater Appalachia have nuanced pictures

Colin Woodard·

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·April 19, 2025·7 min read

Intergenerational economic mobility and the American Nations regional cultures

Colin Woodard·

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·August 29, 2023·17 min read

The Regional Geography of U.S. Life Expectancy

How long you can expect to live depends on what U.S. region you live in and the reasons for it go back centuries.

Colin Woodard·

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·April 26, 2024·3 min read

Most Americans Define the U.S. by adherence to ideals rather than heritage, ancestry, or traditions, a new Pell Center Nationhood Lab poll finds

The nationwide survey finds Americans prefer to define their country by its commitment to civic ideals rather than by shared ancestry, history, traditions or culture by wide margins

Colin Woodard·

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·July 17, 2023·4 min read

The Regional Geography of Unhealthy Living Characteristics

Colin Woodard·

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·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·

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·December 8, 2025·4 min read

Regional differences in attitudes toward undocumented immigrants

The Democracy Project + UCLA Nationscape polls revealed fractures paralleling previously reported regional immigration history By Colin Woodard With the...

Colin Woodard·

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·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

Colin Woodard·

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·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.