Statistics: Which of the 11 American nations is closer to you?

Descended from Puritans, residents of the northeastern states and the industrial Midwest have a much better attitude towards government regulation. They value education and the common good more than other regions.

The region has become a world trade center. It is also the region that receives historically persecuted minorities better than others.

Stretching from Quaker lands westward through Iowa and into more populated areas of the Midwest, Middle-earth is "plurastic and organized around the middle class." Government interference is not acceptable here, and ethnic and ideological purity mean little.

A hybrid of Appalachian independence and Yankee passion for utopianism. The independence and ingenuity of the early settlers continues to be evident in Silicon Valley and the high-tech companies clustered around Seattle.

The former French colonies in New Orleans and Quebec tend towards consensus and egalitarianism, "they are among the most liberal on the entire continent, with an unusually high tolerance for gays and people of all races. They also welcome government intervention in the economy."

Settled from West Virginia through the Great Smoky Mountains to northwest Texas, the descendants of Irish, English, and Scottish settlers value individual freedom. Locals are extremely suspicious of "valley aristocrats and Yankee social engineers."

The coastal regions of the British colonies of Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and Delaware respect authority and tradition more than others. This once the most powerful nation in the United States began to decline after the start of expansion to the west of the continent.

Dixie can still find their roots in the caste system of slave owners who tried to copy the structure of slave societies in the West Indies. The Old South values the rights of the states and local government, struggling to resist the strengthening of the power of the federal government.

The Great Plains and Mountainous States are based on developed industry, which has become necessary due to inhospitable climates. Outsiders are pronounced libertarians who distrust large organizations, regardless of whether they are railroad companies, monopolies, or the federal government.

Southwest Texas and the border regions are the oldest and most linguistically diverse nation in the United States. Hard work and self—sufficiency are what is respected in El Norte.

Nations of Native Americans who did not surrender to the onslaught of the colonists.