“Most Americans know the Dutch founded what is now Greater New York City. Few realize that their influence is largely the reason New York is New York, the most vibrant and powerful city on the continent, and one with a… — 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 ships at sea and an army of 100,000 men in the field." -Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy” — Colin Woodard Copy Share
“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 pure Borderlander: they created their own sovereign State of Franklin on nobody’s permission but their own. They drafted a constitution that prohibited lawyers, clergy, and doctors from running for office, set up a government in the… — Colin Woodard Copy Share
“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
