Written by Colin Woodard, American Nations proposed a theory that the United States was actually 11 nations vying for cultural and political supremacy.
These maps are excellent! The best I've found for the American Nations book. Thank you for including the cities! I am working on a Podcast episode explaining American cultures for authors in other countries. Would it be ok if I included some of these maps in the blog version of the episode?
As a Left Coaster with ties to Portland and the northern cities of California, I would say that Sacramento and Bend are closer to Left Coast than Far West.
Sacramento is by far the biggest city in California not actually on the coast, and many of its people pretty regularly go back and forth to the Bay Area. It’s got much more in common with Oakland than it does with Fresno.
And Bend is increasingly being settled by Portland and California ex-pats, to a point that politically it’s become a blue island in the sea of red east of the Cascades. While it’s true that most of eastern and southern Oregon is culturally indistinguishable from Idaho (and a bunch of it wants to secede from the state to join Idaho), Bend is the exception, and is closer culturally to a Portland suburb and tourist destination than it is to an eastern Oregon city.
These maps are excellent! The best I've found for the American Nations book. Thank you for including the cities! I am working on a Podcast episode explaining American cultures for authors in other countries. Would it be ok if I included some of these maps in the blog version of the episode?
Given that Hawaii isn't strictly North American, it's not surprising that a book taking a North American perspective would omit it.
As a Left Coaster with ties to Portland and the northern cities of California, I would say that Sacramento and Bend are closer to Left Coast than Far West.
Sacramento is by far the biggest city in California not actually on the coast, and many of its people pretty regularly go back and forth to the Bay Area. It’s got much more in common with Oakland than it does with Fresno.
And Bend is increasingly being settled by Portland and California ex-pats, to a point that politically it’s become a blue island in the sea of red east of the Cascades. While it’s true that most of eastern and southern Oregon is culturally indistinguishable from Idaho (and a bunch of it wants to secede from the state to join Idaho), Bend is the exception, and is closer culturally to a Portland suburb and tourist destination than it is to an eastern Oregon city.
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