“The Inuit language has no difference between he or she, or between mankind and animal,” she adds. “They’re all equal.”5” — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“The Midlanders—a great many of them German speaking—carried their pluralistic culture into the Heartland, a place long since identified with neighborliness, family-centered progress, practical… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“I am a free Prince, and I have as much authority to make war on the whole world as he who has a hundred… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“The Inuit language has no difference between he or she, or between mankind and animal,” she adds. “They’re all equal.”5” — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“As you travel north across Ohio,” Ohio State University dean Harlan Hatcher wrote in 1945, “you feel that you have been transported from Virginia… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“Split by an increasingly militarized border, El Norte in some ways resembles Germany during the Cold War: two peoples with a common culture separated… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“It began in 1784, when people in the western territories of North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) became disgusted with Tidewater control. Their solution was… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“The Midland Midwest would develop as a center of moderation and tolerance, where people of many faiths and ethnicities lived side by side, largely… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“A little-known fact is that most American of icons, the open-range cattle industry, originated in El Norte and was based on Spanish precedents. A… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“Since 1877 the driving force of American politics hasn’t primarily been a class struggle or tension between agrarian and commercial interests, or even between… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“A state is a sovereign political entity like the United Kingdom, Kenya, Panama, or New Zealand, eligible for membership in the United Nations and… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
“But what would cause Yankeedom eventually to be so loathed by the other nations was its desire—indeed, its mission—to impose its ways on everyone… — Colin Woodard Copy Share Image
