Some additional context: Colin Woodard wrote American Nations (https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-nations-a-history-of-t...) a bit over a decade ago, which goes into much more detail on these groupings. By and large, he’s drawing lines by immigration patterns - which areas were originally settled by which peoples, and how did that affect the cultures of those regions. It’s an interesting book and an interesting lens - you can nitpick on the sub-district level, but I think the overall thesis has some explanatory power.

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AnimalMuppet 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Go back to "The Nine Nations Of North America" by Joel Garreau in 1981.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_Amer...

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snapetom 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Second American Nations. I take issue with, in parts of it he has an elitist, typical Yankee patronizing tone against the South, but overall it’s well done work. As far as I know, it is the most comprehensive work in highlighting the diversity in culture and history of the US, and why we appear to be so divisive.

If you read news and opinion articles from the early 1900’s you’ll find that many authors are saying the same thing as people say today. In context of American Nations, the answer is “we’ve always been like that.”

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catlover76 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> I take issue with, in parts of it he has an elitist, typical Yankee patronizing tone against the South, but overall it’s well done work

I'm not sure why anyone should expect the South to escape criticism for defining itself on racialized chattel slavery; fighting a war largely to preserve that system; having Jim Crow, lynching, etc.; continuing into the modern day to wish to rename things in favor of treasonous Confederates; being literal economic deadweight that benefits from an influx of tax dollars from Blue states (Yankee states, and "Left Coast", in this nations model) via the Federal government, even while voting against "s0cIALism" and constantly denigrating Yankee and Left Coast cities and states.

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		Renaming things in favor of Confederates is actually being pushed from the guy from NY, to be fair.