The American Nations boundaries show up in just about every closely contested election, and the 2020 presidential contest was no exception.
With the help of my Portland Press Herald colleague Chad Gilley, I crunched the election results (as of November 10) via the regional cultures as well as breaking out each of those between rural and urban counties and even between each of the six degrees of urban/rural-ness as defined by the federal government’s National Center for Health Insurance Standards.
The results can be found in this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram and online here. (There’s also a brief sidebar on the paradigm for readers unfamiliar with it.)
By comparison, here’s the 2016 version of this exercise.
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.