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.| Nationhood Lab
Nationhood Lab's director unpacked the implications of the project's recent analysis of the 2025 Canadian federal election for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, showing why Trumpist-style politics are a tough sell there.| Nationhood Lab
One of the Boston-based public radio superstation’s opinion section editors saw the American Nations model reflected in Europe| Nationhood Lab
Nationhood Lab’s director was the guest on the 400th episode of the award-winning public television series, co-produced by the Pell Center and Rhode Island PBS| Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab's director outlines the findings of Nationhood Lab’s recent analysis of the interlocking geographies of intergenerational mobility, household debt and creditworthiness.| Nationhood Lab
North America's regional cultures rarely respect current boundaries, and the ones separating the U.S. and Canadian federations are no exception| Nationhood Lab
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| Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
Every Canadian regional culture voted for the Liberals, except Far West, in an election mirroring trends in the United States| Nationhood Lab
In a series of recent peer-reviewed journal articles, Nationhood Lab and its research collaborators presented the American Nations model and its utility for understanding U.S. health patterns| Nationhood Lab
The democracy advocate and former chess grandmaster praised Nationhood Lab’s work in an introduction to project director Colin Woodard’s guest essay| Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
Repeating part of Raj Chetty’s classic study using the American Nations model revealed strong differences across U.S. regional cultures, with southern regions performing worst| Nationhood Lab
In Smithsonian Magazine, Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard shares the backstory of one of the United States’s misguided national origin stories. Frederick Jackson Turner’s massively influential and deeply flawed Frontier Thesis, which dominated the teaching and public understanding of American history for half a century after it was first presented at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, was a cul-de-sac of nationhood building| Nationhood Lab
The broadly accepted narrative is rooted in the civic ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence| Nationhood Lab
As the U.S economy shudders, families in individualistic regions generally have far less room to maneuver than their counterparts in communitarian cultures| Nationhood Lab
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.| Nationhood Lab
A Cornell-IOPGA poll examined Americans’ attitudes toward various alleged threats to the republic with special emphasis on two swing districts; here’s how the results broke down via the American Nations model| Nationhood Lab
A rebooted, 21st century version of our civic national narrative is the vital glue that can hold the republic and federation together, Woodard argues in a piece for the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility| Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
May 12, 2022 WASHINGTON – The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab spoke at the American Enterprise Institute last week about the challenges to maintaining U.S. nationhood and how to help overcome them.| Nationhood Lab
America’s regional cultures followed their usual pattern, but there with big shifts in El Norte and Spanish Caribbean and in rural parts of other regions.| Nationhood Lab
Maine’s Portland Press Herald also spoke with Colin Woodard to get the backstory on why Maine always ranks so high in voter participation| Nationhood Lab
More in Common’s Threads of Texas project found seven distinct groups of Texans; we explored how they’re distributed geographically and within the state’s Latino community| Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| 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
In a new study in the American Journal of Medicine, Nationhood Lab’s director and his collaborators find evidence linking firearm fatalities and physical inactivity in the American Nations regions, most especially in the Dixie bloc, El Norte, and First Nation| 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
In a new American Nations-powered study in the American Journal of Medicine, researchers find an opportunity to reach people where they are in the Deep South and Tidewater regions| Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
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.| 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
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
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
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab
How long you can expect to live depends on what U.S. region you live in and the reasons for it go back centuries.| Nationhood Lab