Eleven Nations, Most Under God
Colin Woodard Maps the Real America
The Seal of the United States promises one nation formed from many–e pluribus unum. But journalist Colin Woodard says the reality is different: America is 11 distinct nations.
“We never really were one nation,” Woodard, author of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, told a full house Monday night at Arizona State University’s Washington Center in Washington, DC.
Woodard–in a conversation sponsored by the Center for Social Cohesion and moderated by Zócalo Public Square editorial director Andrés Martinez–said he realized North America was much more …
