Notices by Colin Woodard (colinwoodard@mastodon.online)

Massachusetts North Shore-ians: I'll be speaking at the Gloucester Meeting House this Saturday, Nov. 16 on [gestures furtively in all directions]. Details here:

https://gloucestermeetinghouse.org/event/2024-11-16-us-democracy-in-crisis

Spoke with the NY Times about the origins & meaning of popular US geographical shorthands, from Sun and Rust Belt to Flyover Country. Bottom line: “The actual underlying things that people are trying to describe often don’t match the state boundaries.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/us/elections/election-terms-guide.html

On the eve of a high-stakes election, some analysis of Texas Latinos via the American Nations and More in Common's Threads of Texas, and the implications for politics, courtesy of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center at Salve Regina University: https://www.nationhoodlab.org/texan-political-tribes-and-the-american-nations/

NEW: Americans, regardless of party, really hate public library book banning. Results from our Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center poll "stress testing" public commitment to liberal democratic values: https://www.nationhoodlab.org/survey-results-americans-overwhelmingly-oppose-election-subversion-aggressive-book-bans-but-split-on-partisan-lines-over-voter-suppression-and-presidents-being-above-law/

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