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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hermetic Seal" data-source="post: 920051" data-attributes="member: 10915">American Nations by Colin Woodward.The first 2/3 or so of the book is pretty interesting. Woodward's hypothesis has some flaws but it's an engaging interpretation of American history. But in the last third, he brushes over most of the 20th century, ignores huge impact of immigration on the American Nations, and writes from a blatantly biased leftist Yankee perspective while demonizing and dismissing virtually everyone south of the Mason-Dixon Line by characterizing the interests of the antebellum oligarchist slave-owners as representative of all modern-day southerners. He skims over the western states and mischaracterizes them, and generally does a lousy job of applying his hypothesis post-Civil War. Read Albion's Seed (a much better and less-biased book with a similar theme) instead.</blockquote>