Before this week’s history-defining election, the BBC’s correspondent in Miami interviewed Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard about the American Nations regional model and its implications for U.S. politics and society.
“These regions have had a huge influence,” Woodard said. “We can see it in the level of support for candidates in our presidential elections and in elections for Congress. This year will be no exception.”
In the days before the election Woodard also with the New York Times, the Minnesota Star-Tribune, and Maine’s Portland Press Herald. The morning after the election he was the guest on CBC-Nova Scotia’s principle evening radio news program.
The Seattle Times also published the story, via the New York Times wire service.
Nationhood Lab, a project at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, delivers more effective tools with which to describe and defend the American liberal democratic tradition and better understand the forces undermining it.
[This article was cross-posted from Nationhood Lab]
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.