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 ...
Texas. Just Texas. Or the Republic of Texas, if you like. Everywhere else is just not Texas.
Thanks....I’m there, but moving to deep south soon!
At least you aren’t stuck in “El Norte.”
Thanks.
Done a long time a go in the book “Nine Nations of North America”
The premise of this sub-dividing is more leftist Balkanization of America, which is counterproductive to the effort to renew limited government, Constitutionalism, and Federalism.
Who didn't see this one coming? Hands?
I'm guessing that Mr. Woodward hasn't spent a great deal of time south of the Mason-Dixon line. But it really doesn't matter so much. The real faultlines in America are not geographic, they're cultural, and they map very imperfectly to geography. They map a little better to an urban/suburban/rural model, which is quite another thing from geography although it resembles it drawn up on a map. Most things do resemble geography when they're drawn up on a map.
There is a collectivist/individualist dynamic in it, an authoritarian/libertarian dynamic, and a very prominent split between ruling and dependent classes and the middle class they intend to live off. Map that and you'll have something.
Now I have to break off and plan my trip to the South. I can hardly hate to hear the whips cracking and those lovely tunes the field hands sing while they're picking cotton...
“Ol’ man rivah...”
It is always the Yankees who can’t comprehend a piece of the USA going it alone. If Texas and like minded states were to secede I wouldn’t hesitate at the chance of going there.
There is only one America. Unfortunately vermin and parasites
have infested a good of it. We can get America back into her former glory once we have a MAJOR fumigation.
I’m thinking that NOLA (”new France”) doesn’t have a whole lot in common with Quebec (”New France”) either.
Exactly, so you know it has to be a full blown Leftist destroyer trying to curry favor with his fellow travelers.
In other words: racists, homophobic, slack tooth, beer belly, redneck, Bible thumping, gun loving, illiterate, slow witted, KKK loving and hate Obama...
Unless you are a liberal...
Really? The Appalachian mountains extend down to texas?
He just arbitrarily drew lines on a map. Anyone could do that. What a putz.
I haven’t read the article, just commenting on your post. Actually, the Appalachians end with the Glass Mountains in Texas, and are the “youngest” of the mountain chain with the oldest originating in Canada.
Left Coast here, and it doesn’t get much more left than here.
We shouldn’t be willing to concede a single square yard to the bastards. Let them learn to ‘deal with it’.
Up in the mountains of the Great American Redoubt myself. Animals everywhere and winter is here! I love it!
Maybe the Ouachita Overthrust but not the Glass Mountains. Between them is the buried Central Basin Platform in the Permian Basin. Not really part of the same “chain.”
I agree.
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