Guest: Colin Woodward is a NYT bestselling historian and scholar of US regionalism, the sociology of US nationhood, and how our colonial past shapes and explains the present. He is the author of American Nations, Union, American Character, Nations Apart, and the director of the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy.

References:

* Gun violence risk isn’t equal across the country

* The American Nations regions across North America

* The Geography of U.S. Gun Violence

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