Abortion’s Regional Divide – Nationhood Lab
Centuries-old settlement patterns created the geographic contours of the contemporary abortion debate, corrosive effects on the bonds that hold the union together| Nationhood Lab
Centuries-old settlement patterns created the geographic contours of the contemporary abortion debate, corrosive effects on the bonds that hold the union together| Nationhood Lab
Which regional culture controls each of the Fifty States and to what degree? We parsed 2020 census data to reveal present day state-level power dynamics| Nationhood Lab
America’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them. We crunched the numbers to reveal the geography of firearm homicides and suicides.| Nationhood Lab
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Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis informed decades of scholarship and culture. Then he realized he was wrong| Smithsonian Magazine
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.| Nationhood Lab
Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape is one of the largest public opinion studies ever conducted, interviewing people in nearly every county, congressional district, and mid-sized U.S. city in the leadup to election 2020.| Democracy Fund Voter Study Group
Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, a small group of individuals—historians, political leaders, and novelists—fashioned and promoted the idea of America as nation that had a God-given mission to lead humanity toward freedom, equality, and self-government. But this emerging narrative was swiftly contested by another set of intellectuals ...| Colin Woodard - Author
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
