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Odin2005

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10. The book I'm reading now, "American Nations".

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 11:12 PM

Dec 2011

http://www.colinwoodard.com/americannations

It says that the US is not a single nation, but a collection of 10 distinct nations, several of which also are part of Canada or Mexico.

Yankeedom: New England, upstate NY, The Canadian Maritimes and the Upper Midwest

New Netherlands: The NYC area.

Midlands: Phillie, Pittsburgh, Northern Ohio-Indiana-Illinois-Missouri, Iowa, Eastern Nebraska-Kansas, Ontario, Manitoba.

Tidewater: Coastal Virginia and North Carolina.

Greater Appalachia: Appalachia, the Lower Midwest, the Inland South, and North Texas.

Deep South: The coastal plain from South Carolina to SE Texas.

El Norte: Region straddling both sides of the US-Mexico Border.

Left Coast: Coastal California-Oregon-Washington, SW British Columbia.

The Far West: The High Plains and the Inter-Mountain West.

New France: Southern Louisiana and Quebec.

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