The story of the United States is often told as a cohesive group of colonists rising up against its British overlord. The story is far more complicated. In "American Nations" Colin Woodard differentiates between The values and emigration of Puritan New England, Dutch New York, German & Quaker Pennsylvania, Royalist Tidewater Virginia, the agrarian industrial deep south, the Scottish and Irish border-landers of Appalachia, as well as the French & Spanish settlements in the New World. Each of these domains had different incentives and value which remain core to our national division to this day.
