The History of the United States

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There's a Dutch settled zone right around what's now New York City that has its own qualities. There's a area that was settled by the Quakers under William Penn initially around Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, all on the east coast. And here we are. They had these several models happening and they all were moving east to west in settlement bands with the Scots Irish which spreads over much of the continent. Then you have from south to north in what's now the southwest of the United States, you had the far extensions of Spain's colonial project in the Americas.

Colin Woodard is an American journalist. He is the author of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Colin Woodard discuss the ideals of America’s settlers and why they remain influential many years later; how the tension between individual freedom and concern for the public good has shaped America’s regional divides; and whether a shared national narrative can help to unify our divided groups.

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