Posted on 08/02/2015 11:51:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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.
"[But] in order to have any productive conversation on these issues," he added, "you need to know where you come from. Once you know where you are coming from it will help move the conversation forward."
Here's how Woodard describes each nation:
Yankeedom
Encompassing the entire Northeast north of New York City and spreading through Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, Yankeedom values education, intellectual achievement, communal empowerment, and citizen participation in government as a shield against tyranny. Yankees are comfortable with government regulation. Woodard notes that Yankees have a "Utopian streak." The area was settled by radical Calvinists....
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Family oldsters were right back in the 80’s when they said: “no matter how much it seems there is to complain about in the USA, believe it or not, you’re living in the good old days.”
Conceptually kind of right. But not really accurately divided or described. America has never been a monoculture. That’s part of what makes it fun.
Did the snake handler tell y’all that?
I have to apologize. I got caught up in the moment when you said vacation there, but calling that place God’s Country, well, I see now you were just having fun with your Neighbor.
;)
I live in Central TX, aka, Greater Appalachia. The County next to me, aka “The Cowboy Capital of the World” is apparently now El Norte.
DC is not Commieville, that would be Austin, TX. DC is Corruptoville.
Ha—you’re probably right.
Doomonyou is selling his house on the left coat and just bought one in Greater Appalachia (30 min. north of Dallas). Start new job tomorrow!
An interesting take. Of how much use? I don’t know.
Might quibble with some of the particulars. Northern Missouri seems a lot like it belongs with Appalachia to me. Shoot, some of the southern counties of Iowa do too. And the border in Northern Iowa seems quite arbitrary. Ain’t a dime’s worth of difference between Sioux and Lyon counties, for example. Or with the southern counties in Minnesota.
Yankeedom = East Anglia
Tidewater = Wessex and Mercia
New Netherlands and Midlands = north midlands
Appalachia & deep south = borderlands between England and Scotland
That is one big and silly map!
And wrong.
Feh. You cannot get a consensus in a room with 6 like-minded people. Check out almost ANY thread on FR for easy proof, LOL.
Tidewater living in El Norte. With some Deep South and Greater Appalachia thrown in for good measure.
I suggest renaming the “Tidewater” region to “Sewage”
Welcome home!
:)
His “Midlands” and a good chunk of “Yankeedom”, as well as chunks of the “Far West” states, would be better termed “New Germany”, even here in ‘Dutch’ western Michigan. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/georgepolkaward/index
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Polk_Awards
North Carolina NOT divided between three “nations” and we certainly aren’t culturally the same as “Blue” Delaware and Maryland. This must have been written by some inside the beltway “expert” left who’s never actually visited beyond it.
That’s why this map is wrong shouln’t have included the good God fearing people of Eastern NC and VA in with Maryland, DE and DC?
Not just western PA, but pretty much all of north-central PA too. The author clearly doesn't have any idea of the various cultures in PA.
Yup.
A simple topo map of the actual Appalachians should have been his guide.
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