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·December 17, 2025·3 min read

Blue Shift: California’s redistricting ballot measure converts its Far West section

In November, Californians passed Proposition 50, redistricting the state's Congressional districts in response to Texas's extreme, mid-cycle gerrymander. Many Trump-supporting areas backed the move.

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

·July 30, 2025·1 min read

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

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

·February 10, 2026·4 min read

Is Trump’s support faltering in every region save Greater Appalachia?

Detailed approval estimates from G. Elliott Morris suggest Trump’s autocratic behavior suggest a sharp drop his support in the swing regions, Deep South, and exurban Yankeedom

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·

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·

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.