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Bad borders: what US secessionists’ proposals miss

The sixth installment of my “Balkanized America” series is up over at Medium, looking at how contemporary US secessionists and state-splitters — from Ted Draper’s “Six Californias” and CAL3 plans to… Read more »

Trumpism, the American Nations, and the 2016 election

My latest installment of the “Balkanized America” series is up over at Medium, this one interpreting what happened in the 2016 presidential election via an American Nations lens, with some… Read more »

No, the great US political divide isn’t rural vs urban. Here’s the proof.

One counter-argument I often hear in regards to the political effects of the American Nations is that regionalism isn’t important, that the salient divide in American politics is actually between… Read more »

Turns out the American Nations left a genetic trace too

Some of you may recall the study published earlier this year in Nature Communications, where genetics researchers mapped reproductive clustering in North America in time and space. Many of you… Read more »

The (Almost) Civil War of 1789

My American Nations-powered series over at Medium, “Balkanized America,” continues with a second installment on the deep divisions between our regional cultures in the colonial period, Revolutionary era, and early… Read more »

“Balkanized America” – a series at Medium

Medium, the blog hosting site created by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is developing a members only section, and invited me to create a series of articles there built around the… Read more »