Posted on 11/10/2013 2:07:01 PM PST by Libloather
Red states and blue states? Flyover country and the coasts? How simplistic. Colin Woodard, a reporter at the Portland Press Herald and author of several books, says North America can be broken neatly into 11 separate nation-states, where dominant cultures explain our voting behaviors and attitudes toward everything from social issues to the role of government.
“The borders of my eleven American nations are reflected in many different types of maps — including maps showing the distribution of linguistic dialects, the spread of cultural artifacts, the prevalence of different religious denominations, and the county-by-county breakdown of voting in virtually every hotly contested presidential race in our history,” Woodard writes in the Fall 2013 issue of Tufts University’s alumni magazine. “Our continent’s famed mobility has been reinforcing, not dissolving, regional differences, as people increasingly sort themselves into like-minded communities.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I think “Appalachian” here describes a state of mind instead of just where those mountains happen to be.
The article describes Appalachian folks as “intensely suspicious of lowland aristocrats and Yankee social engineers.”
I’m guessing that description applies to more than a few Texans!
Aaaaaaaah,
Get outta taxachusetts!!!
(My first guess w/o looking @ your FR profile was.... taxachusetts :0)
O_o
urban and country
that is it
I will never live in a city again
Currently I live in a town and it is too commie for me
1)Rhode Island was so suspicious of a stronger federal government that it didn't even send a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. It was the last of the Thirteen Original States to ratify that document.
2)The New England states bandied secession about during the days of the Essex Junto and the War of 1812, before anyone in the South ever thought of it. Southerners called them "traitors" for considering secession. Sound familiar?
Actually... parts of South Jersey are more than just geographically south of the Mason-Dixon line. South Jersey is like a completely different Nation, when compared to most of North Jersey.
Americans are composed of five groups. Largest group is immigrant experience. This group includes blacks who immigrate from Africa and Caribbean vs those who came as slaves. This group decided to leave old country to make new life in US. Sees US as opportunity. Second group is blacks descendant from slavery. This group experience is formed from fighting first for freedom and then struggle to be considered equal. Third group is call fortunes of foreign policy. US annex, won or negotiated for territories. Inhabitants woke up to find themselves under US rule. Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Hawaii, Alaska..... Forth group is native American Indians who were displaced by wars and ultimately ended up on Reservations. Final group is mixed race. It is a fast growing group that does not fit in any of the above four groups. Multi racial and cultural. Challenges liberal concept of classifying everyone into groups.
There are two: makers and takers, with no geographic boundaries.
The one slight modification I might argue for when it comes to Texas is to extend the area of “new france” west just enough for it to cross into Texas near the Beaumont and Port Arthur areas.
DEEP SOUTH.
I live in Greater Appalachia and it is distinctly different than the Deep South.
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Southern tier of PA is tricky. The “Midlands” is a reasonably fair description ideologically, but since many of the economic and cultural ties were to the south beginning in the early 19th century I wonder if “Tidewater” or even “Greater Appalachia” would be the better fit.
The latter would square with the “Pennsyltucky” and “Pittsburgh and Philadelphia with Alabama in between” descriptions sometimes offered.
No..no...no...summertime, and the living is easy... :-)
My opinion exactly. The same is true for economic class and race.
Two races of people: Communists and those supporting the Constitution.
Two classes of people: Communists and those supporting the Constitution.
A better understanding comes from studying Church History.
Study who immigrated/pioneered/pilgrimaged/plantationed in the New World. from 1492 through 1776. Then follow the history of Texas and the other states as they joined the US.
The laws, church history, thinking, and culture followed.
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There is no way on earth that North Carolina is in the same “nation” as Delaware, Maryland, and Washington, D.C!
THUMBs UP! 
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