Dan Thomas
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You're either stalled or not. I haven't been convinced otherwise.
Depending on wing planform and washout, the stall will start at the trailing edge root and progress outward and forward as AoA increases. As lift is lost the nose will drop. With most GA airplanes, the whole wing never gets a chance to stall this way. You can still rock the wings with aileron in a 172 as the nose is falling, for instance.
So it's not "either stalled or not." The only way to get most light airplanes to completely stall the wing is in an aggressively accelerated stall such as the sharp pullup some unfortunate guys do after a low pass, and the airplane flips over and kills them.
Dan