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Of course it now needs to updated to account for the trump election

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Like his american nations american character is giving me a much deeper understanding of things i see each night on the evening news and explains how and why we got so screwed up

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Colin woodard’s new book is a sequel to his american nations a history of the eleven rival regional cultures in north america which gained wide attention when published five years ago

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Searching back to the first european settlements of the seventeenth century he showed how antagonistic ideas about a proper social order produced sharply divergent colonial regimes

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No unitary national culture could result the outcome always has been contested and plural

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Woodard’s american character argues that both polar paradigms—hypercollective and hyperindividualistic—are dystopian

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Although its alleged purpose was “the promotion of the common good” it “yielded instead collective misery” 28

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But those traumatized by the collectivist nightmare notably novelist ayn rand and wichita oil magnate fred koch concocted “an extreme individualist creed” that prized the pursuit of “rapacious selfinterest” 38