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

The Geography of U.S. Gun Violence

America’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them. We crunched the numbers to reveal the geography of firearm homicides and suicides.
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

Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·July 31, 2023·1 min read

Nationhood Lab director discusses the authoritarian crisis and the problems of U.S. nationhood with Yascha Mounk on The Good Fight podcast

Colin Woodard was the guest on Mounk's The Good Fight, a popular podcast that searches for the ideas, policies and strategies that can beat authoritarian populism.
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
·December 4, 2024·9 min read

The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations

Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·April 6, 2023·1 min read

U.S. nationhood was created nearly from scratch in the 19th century. Was Daniel Webster responsible?

In Washington Monthly's spring issue, Nationhood Lab's director writes on the creation of the U.S. national narrative in a review of Joel Richard Paul's Indivisible.
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedUpdates
·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·
FeaturedIn the News
·September 18, 2023·1 min read

For POLITICO: on the geography of U.S. life expectancy

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

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

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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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