BBC Mundo features Woodard’s American Nations, Nationhood Lab

The BBC’s Spanish language division ran an extended feature on Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard’s regional model ahead of this week’s election

Before this week’s history-defining election, the BBC’s correspondent in Miami interviewed Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard about the American Nations regional model and its implications for U.S. politics and society.

Their extended feature story published November 2nd under the title — in Spanish — “Why you can say the United States is a country with eleven rival nations and how it influences presidential elections.”

“These regions have had a huge influence,” Woodard said. “We can see it in the level of support for candidates in our presidential elections and in elections for Congress. This year will be no exception.”

In the days before the election Woodard also with the New York Times, the Minnesota Star-Tribune, and Maine’s Portland Press Herald. The morning after the election he was the guest on CBC-Nova Scotia’s principle evening radio news program.

Nationhood Lab, a project at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, delivers more effective tools with which to describe and defend the American liberal democratic tradition and better understand the forces undermining it.