News Map of the 11 nations of the USA

[Second Summer]

In his fourth book, "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures in North America," award-winning author Colin Woodard identifies 11 distinct cultures that have historically divided the US.

"The country has been arguing about a lot of fundamental things lately including state roles and individual liberty," Woodard, a Maine native who won the 2012 George Polk Award for investigative reporting, told Business Insider.

"People choose to move to places where they identify with the values," Woodard says. "Red minorities go south and blue minorities go north to be in the majority. This is why blue states are getting bluer and red states are getting redder and the middle is getting smaller."

More: The 11 nations of the United States - Business Insider (27. July 2015)

I thought this was quite interesting. Is it really the case that blue states are getting bluer and the red are getting redder in this manner?

 

[ledboots]

More: The 11 nations of the United States - Business Insider (27. July 2015)

I thought this was quite interesting. Is it really the case that blue states are getting bluer and the red are getting redder in this manner?

Probably true. I have never seen the divide between Republicans and Democrats as wide or divisive as it is today. It's a big country, and people are mobile here. For the first time, Florida recently overtook New York State in population, for example.

Interesting map.

 

[Amy SF]

That must explain why, as a lifelong resident of coastal California, when I visited Boston, Cambridge and Brookline in 2007, I thought, "Yeah, I could live here."

 

[Mischief]

More: The 11 nations of the United States - Business Insider (27. July 2015)

I thought this was quite interesting. Is it really the case that blue states are getting bluer and the red are getting redder in this manner?

I haven't seen the nation this divided since the Vietnam War, and at present, the divide is definitely broader and probably deeper than then.

 

[ledboots]

I haven't seen the nation this divided since the Vietnam War, and at present, the divide is definitely broader and probably deeper than then.

Agree. It is really sad, the vitriol and huge divide.

 

[Second Summer]

It seems strange that the value set of the first European immigrants would have survived subsequent waves of immigration. That seemed to be the claim for several of the "nations".

 

[Moll Flanders]

That sounds really fascinating, I'm going to order that book.