On the author...
“Colin Woodard is a POLITICO Magazine contributing writer and director of the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. He is the author of six books including American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.”
Okaaaaay...
Yep....more leftist drivel....again.
Like anyone here actually believes anything from Polutico and these leftist dweeb authors.
First of all, this is not news.
Second of all, Blacks don’t live as long, and the proportion density in those deep south states is high.
And if you want proof: From AI
In Placer County, California, 1.3% of the population is Black or African American.
In Lexington County, South Carolina, 14.96% of the total population is Black or African American.
Colin Woodward’s book parallels the works of Joel Garreau (Nine Nations of North America written in 1981), David Hackett Fisher (Albion’s Seed written in 1989), and Kevin Phillips (The Emerging Republican Majority written in 1970). A Cliff’s Notes version of these books is that the political and social cultures in American regions derive from whatever British or other European group settled in that area. Some of this analysis is sound, but there are flaws. For instance, lumping Rust Belt western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia with the High Plains of West Texas as Greater Appalachia is nonsensical. There is little that is Dutch about Greater New York City other than some street and town names and a preference for Heineken beer. You have to account for changing religious views over the years, economic shifts from ag to industrial to service/tech bases, and the effects of post-1965 immigration, legal or not.