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.”
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The Original part
“Greater Appalachia?”
Nope. No bias there....
BS. There aren’t eleven; there are only two: those who love precious Freedom and Liberty and those who subscribe to a smothering, monstrous, tyrannical, despotic, and out-of-control federal government, i.e., communists.
Thanks. Divvying up the country like this does no one any good.
I’m deep in the heart of Midlands.
Can anybody read the caption for south Florida?
So Philadelphia and Southern Jersey are the same as the Oklahoma panhandle? Somehow, I don’t think so.
I think it says 'Cuba'.
Yes, it says: “Part of the Spanish Caribbean.”
There is some truth to this.
For instance, in S. Dakota and Nebraska, the western half of the state is a different culture. So much so that there have been secession movements from time to time.
Like his descriptions of Yankeedom and Tidewater, he obviously hasn’t spent much time wandering around Chicago, Detroit or Baltimore, has he! /s;)
Two nations.
Makers and Takers
Part of the Spanish Carribean
It says “Part of the Spanish Caribbean.”
Really? The Appalachian mountains extend down to texas?
He just arbitrarily drew lines on a map. Anyone could do that. What a putz.
Check out this image on the UK Daily Mail:
Close, it says:
(Part of the Spanish Caribbean)
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