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Colin Woodard on America’s Many Nations

The Good Fight

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The History of the United States

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.

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