The Remnant coup d’état continues as Kevin Williamson sits down with journalist Colin Woodard to talk about our country’s most deeply seated cultural divisions. Woodard and Williamson cover Texas, the Puritans, Appalachia, Donald Trump’s ethnonationalism, regional Covid-19 trends, and shifting party geography.

Shownotes:
—Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America
—American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
—Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647
—J.D. Vance’s Claremont speech
—Homeland Security “a heritage to be proud of” tweet
—Kevin on John Brown for The Dispatch
—The Pell Center Nationhood Lab
—“Nationhood Lab: The Story of America” report

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