Colin Woodard, director of Salve Regina University's Nationhood Lab, spoke May 10 with two statewide public radio networks about the Pell Center project’s latest work on the geography of gun violence.
Nationhood Lab recently mapped the regional cultures across Canada, Greenland, Northern Mexico and parts of the Caribbean, allowing the American Nations analytical model to be used for cross-country comparisons.
The United States is regions apart when it comes to attitudes about immigration, immigrants and immigration policies. The geography of immigration has shifted substantially since 1900, with political effects visible on the ground.
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.
