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·July 30, 2025·1 min read

Canadian regional politics mirror those in the U.S., Woodard argues in essay for Ottawa think tank

Nationhood Lab's director unpacked the implications of the project's recent analysis of the 2025 Canadian federal election for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, showing why Trumpist-style politics are a tough sell there.

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·June 10, 2025·6 min read

Canada’s 2025 Election and the American Nations

Every Canadian regional culture voted for the Liberals, except Far West, in an election mirroring trends in the United States

Colin Woodard·

In the News

·February 13, 2025·1 min read

Nationhood Lab Director discusses the authoritarian threat with Finland’s Uusi Juttu

Colin Woodard·

In the News

·January 31, 2025·1 min read

Washington Monthly: Woodard on the American Nations regions and the 2024 election

In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard outlines the findings of Nationhood Lab's recent analysis of the 2024 presidential election

Colin Woodard·

In the News

·January 3, 2025·2 min read

Die Welt interviews Woodard on 2024 election and the crisis for U.S. democracy

Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard talked at length with the U.S. correspondent of one of Germany's newspapers of record about the election results and the crisis Trumpism represents to American democracy

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·December 4, 2024·9 min read

The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations

Colin Woodard·

Updates

·August 22, 2024·4 min read

Nationhood Lab poll: Harris Leads Trump by 4% Nationally, but with Wide Variation by Age, Ethnicity, and U.S. Regional Cultures

NEWPORT, RI— A new national poll from Salve Regina University’s Pell Center and Embold Research shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Donald Trump by four percentage points among likely voters, but with large differences between age groups, ethnicities, and historically-based U.S. regions.

Colin Woodard·

In the News

·June 19, 2023·1 min read

Washington Monthly: Woodard on Nationhood Lab’s new insights into the geography of gun violence

In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard outlines the findings in the project's recent analysis of the geography of gun violence

Colin Woodard·

In the News

·March 7, 2023·1 min read

Washington Monthly: how centuries old settlement patterns shaped the 2022 Midterms

Colin Woodard·

Data Journalism Featured

·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·

Updates

·November 17, 2022·1 min read

Woodard Speaks at State of the Unions conference in Brussels

November 17, 2022 BRUSSELS – Pell Center visiting senior fellow Colin Woodard Nov. 16 addressed the State of the Unions...

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