Which of the 11 American nations do you live in?

[mad cow]

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.”

More and map at link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ch-of-the-11-american-nations-do-you-live-in/

My butt is in Tidewater but my heart is in Greater Appalachia.

 

[James Madison]

Greater Appalachian here. Thinking about relocating to the Far West, though.

 

[phill4paul]

Greater Appalachian. Proud of it.

 

[Southron]

Looks like they have my county on the border of Greater Appalachia but still in Tidewater. I'm not sure exactly what we have in common with the rest of Tidewater though.

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

Apparently none of the above...."Part of the Spanish Caribbean"

 

[heavenlyboy34]

The Far West: The Great Plains and the Mountain West were built by industry, made necessary by harsh, sometimes inhospitable climates. Far Westerners are intensely libertarian and deeply distrustful of big institutions, whether they are railroads and monopolies or the federal government.
lues states’ rights and local control and fights the expansion of federal powers.
El Norte: Southwest Texas and the border region is the oldest, and most linguistically different, nation in the Americas. Hard work and self-sufficiency are prized values.

These^ are only partly true, in my experience.

 

[oyarde]

More and map at link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...ch-of-the-11-american-nations-do-you-live-in/

My butt is in Tidewater but my heart is in Greater Appalachia.

The Empire of Oyarde is in the North Central part of Greater Appalachia.

 

[oyarde]

Apparently none of the above...."Part of the Spanish Caribbean"

You need to keep the powder dry for your cannon, and an eye out for Somolian pirates.

 

[Keith and stuff]

I live in The Shire. It's b/t Yankeedom and New France. We tend to be Red Socks fans, so don't call us Yankees

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

El Norte

 

[Carlybee]

Apparently I live in the deep south but was born and raised in greater Appalachia.

 

[torchbearer]

Baton Rouge and the Florida Parishes would also be New France.

 

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

I am currently in Tidewater but the house I purchased is in Greater Appalachia.

Edit: I should note that I am not a native to either and originate from the border of Deep South and New France.

 

[oyarde]

I am currently in Tidewater but the house I purchased is in Greater Appalachia.

Yes , your moving up

 

[Ronin Truth]

GREATER APPALACHIA. Founded in the early eighteenth century by wave upon wave of settlers from the war-ravaged borderlands of Northern Ireland, northern England, and the Scottish lowlands, Appalachia has been lampooned by writers and screenwriters as the home of hillbillies and rednecks. It transplanted a culture formed in a state of near constant danger and upheaval, characterized by a warrior ethic and a commitment to personal sovereignty and individual liberty. Intensely suspicious of lowland aristocrats and Yankee social engineers alike, Greater Appalachia has shifted alliances depending on who appeared to be the greatest threat to their freedom. It was with the Union in the Civil War. Since Reconstruction, and especially since the upheavals of the 1960s, it has joined with Deep South to counter federal overrides of local preference.

Very interesting how close the description is.

Thanks!

 

[cjm]

Appalachia here.

 

[cjm]

States in the Deep South are much more likely to have stand-your-ground laws than states in the northern “nations.” And more than 95 percent of executions in the United States since 1976 happened in the Deep South, Greater Appalachia, Tidewater and the Far West. States in Yankeedom and New Netherland have executed a collective total of just one person.

He's got to be talking about "formal" executions, right?

 

[Matthew5]

Greater Appalachian, family has been since the late 1700's. Good article, glad to see someone recognizing America's diversity issue.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

The Empire of Oyarde is in the North Central part of Greater Appalachia.

When did you build an empire? I thought you were a king.

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

Well they definitely got Florida wrong, and completely ignored Southern Florida. Highly generalized and stereotyped descriptions of regions that should be far more broken up and nuanced. As a native Floridian, the Southern part of the State can be characterized as a mixture of Cuba and other Caribbean peoples and Israel (Broward / Dade counties), Central Florida is transplant central becoming more and more Northeastern (though with strong Dixie ties still), and the Panhandle / Northern Florida is pretty much Dixieville with Alabama and Georgia with a lot of evangelicals and rural folks. We all do love our Southern food though, so there's that

Also Louisiana should be classified Creole, and not New France as it has relatively little with New France way up North.