American Nations: The Eleven Rival Regions of North America

Colin Woodard is an award-winning journalist and author of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, a history of North America that explodes the red state-blue state myth and explains away partisanship with the claim that our culture wars are inevitable. North America was settled by groups with distinct political and religious values - and we haven't had a moment's peace since. His other books include The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier; Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas; and The Republic of Pirates, the basis of the NBC series "Crossbones." Woodard is the State & National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. National Affairs Series: When American Values Are in Conflict