Thinking like a region

What lies at the core of the emergence of regionalism in the
eight Western states that stretch along the Rocky Mountains

Following a lively dialogue about the idea of a regional primary here on Western Perspective over the past couple of weeks, I’d like now to take a step back from the discussion about the primary and attempt to provide it some historical perspective.

In particular, I want to encourage discussion about a phenomenon that seems to me to have been steadily gaining strength over the past few years: the emergence of Rocky Mountain regionalism.

I’m going to start by using Headwaters News itself as a kind of case study, and in the process I want to invite some of our loyal Headwaters’ readers into the discussion.

Headwaters began six years ago as an experiment, built around a hypothesis. That hypothesis, roughly stated, was that region matters, at least here in the Rockies, and that there should therefore be a substantial number of people who would find it useful to have easy and reliable access to news stories from around the region.

By Daniel Kemmis
for Headwaters News

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