Great piece.

“Your health is only 10 percent influenced by the medical environment and maybe 20 or 30 percent in behavioral choices. The social and political determinants of health are overwhelmingly what you’re seeing in these maps.”

"If you compare the poorest category of counties in (completely urbanized) New Netherland to the richest ones in Deep South, the former has a 0.4-year advantage in life expectancy."

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/america-life-expectancy-regions-00113369

#AmericanNations #USHealth #LifeExpectancy #Policy

If you live in North America, it is useful to know about the migration patterns over the centuries and how they conditioned the regional societies that sprang from them. I’ve long maintained that the War of the Roses never ended, it just moved over here and has been playing out for centuries. This idea of the #AmericanNations is a useful way to look at the partisanship and regional differences at play in the present.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/america-life-expectancy-regions-00113369

Listening to AMERICAN NATIONS by Colin Woodard and boy does this explain a lot about the divisions in our country #AmericanNations #audiobook #ColinWoodard #histodon #bookstodon @bookstodon

@ColinWoodard Very interesting and I think this has potential to be extremely valuable- looking forward to further updates on this project. The #AmericanNations concept has continued to be a useful explanatory framework for me in multiple contexts since I first encountered the book.

19 House Republicans voted against McCarthy six times in a row. Guess which #AmericanNations they're from.

https://colinwoodard.com/19-house-republicans-voted-against-mccarthy-six-times-guess-which-american-nations-theyre-from/