The Day America Told the Truth
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The Day America Told the Truth: What People Really Believe About Everything That Really Matters is the title of a non-fiction book co-written by James Patterson and Peter Kim. It was originally published in 1991.
While providing demographic information about groups and areas in the United States, it is best known for dividing up the country into nine "moral regions," largely based upon Joel Garreau's, The Nine Nations of North America. The largest differences, geographically, is that two of Garreau's areas have been split in half, creating nine regions. "The Foundry" is now the "Metropolis" along the Eastern Seaboard and the "Rust Belt" inland around the Great Lakes region, and "Dixie" has been split into the "New South," encompassing most of the area covered by the Census Bureau's South Atlantic States, and "Old Dixie," which is the Southern states with coastlines on the Gulf of Mexico and the landlocked states to their immediate north. Some regions are also christened with new names. The book also ignores the impact of other countries, so that areas which were international in Garreau's book simply end at the present boundaries of the United States.
