A Balkanized Federation – Nationhood Lab

As described in American Nations, our true regional fissures can be traced back to the contrasting ideals of the distinct European colonial cultures that first took root on the eastern and southern rims of what is now the United States, and then spread across much of the continent in mutually exclusive settlement bands, laying down the institutions, symbols and cultural norms later arrivals would encounter and, by and large, assimilate into. (Academically, this work is built on the foundations of the late cultural geographer Wilbur Zelinsky’s Doctrine of First Effective Settlement.)

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