Explaining America’s Nine Nations

Interesting video and I reckon that I'll make a few notes on it that I took as I watched it.

1. I prefer Colin Woodard's American Nations to Joel Garreau's nine just because there's so much more evidence for it. Dialect maps, genetic clusters, voting patters, material culture, and most other objective indicators follow Woodard's model. Joel Garraeu's divisions are real but they are more economic type things then deep cultural ones. Throughout the video, whatifalthist continuously makes reference to Woodard's model again and again in explaining these regions betraying that it better reflects the ethnic/cultural characteristics of the different American peoples.

2. His statement that Europeans don't really know a whole lot about North America and do not seem to understand that we are VERY regionally diverse to the point where we are not one people is very true. Whenever the subject comes up in any discussions between Americans and Europeans online Americans try their hardest to explain this Europeans. They try their absolute dangdest to hammer this fact into their head but Europeans seem to have a conceptual blindspot and cannot imagine America as anything other then one cohesive thing. They have this arrogant attitude saying that they know more about the United States than Americans themselves know but when pressed on how they came to this knowledge it is often found out that the European in question has never been to the United States and has never traveled throughout it and gets all their knowledge from Hollywood movies. The occasional European that has traveled through different regions of the United States will often comment about how jarring it was to see these differences for themselves. I remember one in particular who had traveled to both New York and Appalachia and was just like... what the @#$%?

3. As stated in the video this isn't helped by the fact that the United States is a as he described it, "cookie cutter culture" that since World War 2 the 
United States government has tried its hardest to Unify the country under one identity and as a result its similar on a very shallow surface level. Everywhere you go in the US there's Walmart's, McDonald, and Starbucks, and even the accents are starting to level out. Europeans tend to differentiate themselves by surface level things like language, food, architecture, music, art, and other qualities in the cultural iceberg that lie above the water. We have those differences here believe me but our cultural differences are much deeper. A Frenchman and an Englishman will agree far more on and have far more similarities with each other on moral values, religion, the acceptability of violence, family rearing values, manners, the proper role of government, out group regard vs. tolerance,  collectivism vs. individualism, level of social trust, attitudes on war, attitudes on honor, class, gender roles, metaphysical views and assumptions, and you name it than any two people from Massachuttssets or Alabama.  See the image below?




The government has tried to eliminate everything above the water but will never be able to eliminate what lies below it. They will never make us one people. To Americans people from Northwestern Europe seem downright homogenous by comparison.

3. Puritanism was a bonafide cult like Heaven's Gate or the Branch Davidians. I don't know why I had never realized that before. I think it's because the Puritans are taught to us as a kind of founding myth in school (as a result of the public school system being founded by Yankees) and we learn to see them in a kind of benign, disneyfide light. That they were a cult explains a lot of their actions throughout history like founding other even crazier cults like the Mormons, Jehovah's witnesses, Millerites, the Public Universal Friend cult, the Wallah Wallah Jesus cult, and the aforementioned Branch Davidians. It also explains their descendants behavior today with Woke SJWism just being the latest irrational cult they have pushed on the rest of America and by way of America's influence the rest of the Western World.

4. One thing that I had never given much consideration to was that my region of the United States is in the same latitude as Africa and thus has a climate and terrain that is much more similar to what you would find in Africa rather than in Europe. White people, especially Northwest Europeans (which most Deep South whites are) are not evolved to live in this climate, but the West African Bantus we enslaved are which is why before the great migration in the early twentieth century the Deep South was majority black. I never thought of my society as a place where British people through vicious tenacity and uncompromising brutal oppression were able to impose European civilization where it does not belong on an African terrain. I would say this though, I think there was a bit of a selection process that the whites here went through. The Lowland South is a distinct genetic group and Deep Southerners (for lack of a better term to call us) are a kind of race (See the American Genetic clusters map below). In the video, it mentions that most of the whites coming here died as soon as they got here and that's historically very true. I think that the ones that survived were better able to deal with the climate. I for one love the blazing humid heat of the summers here so much so that when I went on a church mission trip in Nicaragua I worked in the tropical heat in long sleeves and absolutely loved it. Most white coastal Southerners are like this as indeed, most of the people with me had no trouble at all.

Below is a map of how Americans cluster together genetically that show these different regional cultures of American whites could be considered different races if indeed the term race has any meaning at all.