"The Continent Has Long Been Divided into 11 Rival Regional 'Nations' Determined by Centuries-Old Settlement Patterns"

"'Since 1877, the driving force in American politics hasn’t primarily been a class struggle or tension between agrarian and commercial interests, or even between competing partisan ideologies, although each has played a role,' Woodard writes. 'Ultimately, the determinative political struggle has been a clash between shifting coalitions of ethnoregional nations, one invariably headed by the Deep South, the other by Yankeedom.'"

Alec MacGillis in The Washington Post reviews Colin Woodard's American Nations.