Quotes from Colin Woodard

A more damned crew hell never vomited," the Virginia Company president later said of them.

Japanese children were kept out of California classrooms as late as 1907 on the theory that they lacked the aptitude for higher learning.

We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence," he explained. "'Necessitous men are not free men.' People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Mortality rates among the crews of vessels employed in the African slave trade were comparable to those of the slaves themselves. It was not unusual for 40 percent of the crew to perish during a single voyage, most from tropical diseases against which they had no resistance. About half the sailors pressed into the Royal Navy died at sea.

Men whose ships were wrecked or who were pressed into the navy at sea rarely received any of the wages they were owed, spelling disaster for the families they left behind.

Insistence on conformity—cultural, religious, or otherwise—was self-defeating, causing strife and undermining trade and business.

Across "the South" there was considerable dissent, which broke not on state, class, or occupational lines but on ethnoregional ones.

These New England outposts quickly dotted the map of the Western Reserve, their names revealing the origins of their Connecticut founders: Bristol, Danbury, Fairfield, Greenwich, Guilford, Hartford, Litchfield, New Haven, New London, Norwalk, Saybrook, and many more.

Even so, dozens of blacks did escape each year. They established rogue settlements in the mountains, where they grew crops, raised families, practiced their religions, and trained bands of swift and effective jungle warriors to raid the plantations, free slaves, and kill Englishmen. In their capital, Nanny Town, the runaways were said to be led by an ancient and powerful witch, Granny Nanny, who protected her warriors with magical spells.

He kicked each of his shoes over the wall and into the crowd, adding, "that some friends of his had often said he should die in his shoes, but that he would make them liars.

while eight of the bottom ten were all states dominated by Yankees, with Massachusetts and the three northern New England states ranking the least religious of all.

There isn't and never has been one America, but rather several Americas.