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.
U.S. Covid-19 vaccination rates are heavily influenced by the legacy of centuries-old colonization patterns. Value differences between the regional cultures created by these rival colonization campaigns shape the behavior of elected officials and the general public.
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
Researchers from Nationhood Lab, the University of Illinois-Chicago, and the University of Minnesota found stark differences in obesity, diabetes, and exercise across the American Nations in Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases.
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 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.
Buckeye State voters passed a constitutional amendment protecting reproductive rights, but the results varied across the state’s three settlement regions...
The Nationhood Lab Director was the guest on Brigham Young University radio's popular public affairs program and podcast hosted by Julie Rose and argued for the need for a revitalized civic national narrative for the United States