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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·
Data JournalismFeatured
·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·
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

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·
FeaturedIn the News
·November 4, 2024·1 min read

New York Times interviews Nationhood Lab director about origins, meaning of U.S. regional terminology

Maine's Portland Press Herald also spoke with Colin Woodard to get the backstory on why Maine always ranks so high in voter participation
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·December 4, 2024·9 min read

The 2024 Presidential Election and the American Nations

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
·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·
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

Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·December 29, 2023·5 min read

Social vulnerability, health outcomes and the American Nations

In a new study in the American Journal of Medicine, Nationhood Lab’s Colin Woodard and his collaborators find evidence for...
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·September 18, 2023·1 min read

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

This summer Nationhood Lab has been focused on regional health disparities and earlier this month the project published a large data journalism package showing wide gaps in life expectancy between U.S. regions. On Sept. 1, Politico published a magazine length story on the findings by project director Colin Woodard, which became the most read story on the site the following afternoon.
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedUpdates
·May 28, 2025·3 min read

Scientific Papers lay out the American Nations paradigm for health and medical researchers

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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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