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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·
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
·December 17, 2025·3 min read

Blue Shift: California’s redistricting ballot measure converts its Far West section

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

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

Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·November 27, 2023·6 min read

Ohio’s abortion vote and the American Nations

Buckeye State voters passed a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights, but the results varied across the state’s three settlement regions...
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

Most Americans say they support the liberal democratic values at the core of the American Experiment, but would they actually do so in practice when doing so might not help their “side” obtain or sustain power? The answer, according to our latest surveys, is “yes,” for most Americans, but not necessarily on the American right.
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·February 10, 2026·4 min read

Is Trump’s support faltering in every region save Greater Appalachia?

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·
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”

Nationhood Lab's director was the guest on the 400th episode of the award-winning public television series, co-produced by the Pell Center and Rhode Island PBS
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·February 13, 2026·1 min read

In Smithsonian: when NYC tried to become its own country

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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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