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rfmcdonaldGNXP's Razib Khan decided to engage in a poll-driven experiment about politics in regionalism in the US and elsewhere.
The results of his comparisons of different areas' nationalism and religiosity? Although Italy and Poland tend to be as religious as many parts of the states, by and large European nations--and Canada?--fall into clusters fairly separate from the different regions of the United States. There may be a Red State/Blue State division within the United States, but that country still seems to form a unity.
One hypothesis I have held is that there is a cultural gap in the United States whereby the West Coast and the Northeast are more "European" than the rest of the nation. So you have ideas crop up like Jesusland. I decided to see if I could compare European nations and American subregions using the WVS, Eurobarometer and GSS.
The results of his comparisons of different areas' nationalism and religiosity? Although Italy and Poland tend to be as religious as many parts of the states, by and large European nations--and Canada?--fall into clusters fairly separate from the different regions of the United States. There may be a Red State/Blue State division within the United States, but that country still seems to form a unity.
