A Regional Breakdown of the United States - Part One

The only thing I would change about this is western upstate New York (from Buffalo to Syracuse) and Erie PA would be moved to the Great Lakes

Iowa is quintessentially Midwest.

White people not wanting to be around black people isn't about skin color lol who ever thinks that obviously has never lived around them in large groups.

How come you left out the west

Came here to finally solidify what the hell "the midwest" means. For some reason I never actually understood it on a vernacular level, needed a visual of the territory. Thanks for the knowledge. Wonder if part 2 refers to my area as "the Caribbean south" as I have most my life...

I see you have most individual States docu. When are you going to do one for Texas? Woukd like to learn more about them.

Colin Woodward of 'American Nations' (2011) fame would be proud.

The US is the third biggest country in the world.

yes to more videos

Actually the USA is the third largest in land area bigger than China.

at what minute was the yellow part discussed i cant find it

In Mr skinjars class rn

great video. Thank you for making it.

Third largest?

From the 1st attempts to create settlement in the mid 1500 (ie the Lost Colony) to the naming of Jamestown, the actual first efforts to settle what is refereed to as "the South" in todays Virginia was actually a failure to find a route to the spice trades regions, and, yes, maritime positioning to literally position ships to pillsge other ships. The limited harbors below the French and Dutch settled Atlantic Coast above modern day Virginia to the Spanish settled Saint Augustine all are absent in the actual initial British colonial efforts in what is provided in historic context of European SE seaboard regional history.

True Deep Natural Harbors mark the NE Megalopilis. This is a key reason for the largest ports, largest population centers as transatlantic and all maritime trade seated along the natural harbors propelled settlement to intensely populated urban areas.

Compare that to ports & harbors in Virginia to the Georgia, not as accessible as the major natural harbors of the NE Megalopolis.

I've seen these two videos about 5 times and I still find something new and enjoyable every time I watch them. But I've always felt there's something missing. While at first I thought it was the result of going through a complex history in a short amount of time, I think there's something more. I watch these videos with the idea of using them to teach my international students about the wide variety that exists in the US. I'd thought it would be interesting for say, a German student to find out that Germans are a big ethnic group and part of the founding history. But I realize if my German student would go to a state, say in the Midwest, looking for German towns, they may not find much left. This is because there is a more recent seismic change that has happened and that you do not cover: Modernity and Globalization.

Modernity and Globalization have not only wipe out manufacturing industries, it also changed the culture of these places, as service economies and new immigrants have come to replace longstanding jobs and communities. Places were there were once Germans, Italians, Norwegians now have Ethiopians, Vietnamese, Filipinos, and of course, Hispanics as well as many other cultures. Additionally, the sons and daughters of these factory workers went to college, receiving a global education that gave them new perspectives that they took back home.

US cultural ethnic history did not end with the turn of the 20th century immigrants. I think it is worth considering creating a follow up video of how Globalization and Modernity has upended long standing cultures in these places, erased some communities while creating new ones with new immigrants. I think them your videos would be more historically complete. I'm going to post this comment in your other video as well.

cool video. I don't usually care to comment that as I pass by. Great job. I'll subscribe

If you notice the poorest areas in the country include the Sioux and Navajo reservations. At one point, and its probably still true, Pine Ridge Lakota sioux reservation was the poorest county in the entire US. The Osage reservation in Oklahoma was the wealthiest only because the osage retained mineral rights that were largely stolen my white induatrialist in the 1920s and 30's. White americans fraudulently claiming Osage anxestry, like vice president Charles Curtis(which Im sure the mainstream would argue againt this but look at the census and you will see where they have clearly been altered) or many white men marrying Osage women to claim their rights when they killed them off(see Killers of the Flower Moon)

As an Alaskan, we have several regions: North Slope, South East, Southwest, South Central Interior, Alutions, and the Bering Coast

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Map does not distinguish South region.

Please speak more slowly and distinctly. Your programs are so well researched and presented, yet your rapid clip allows us to miss so much. Try toastmasters, perhaps?

Many in parts of New England don't count Connecticut as part of New England because of it's close proximity to the Evil Empire, New York. LOL

Thank you for your videos. This is the first one I have watched and look forward to others, BUT.... please talk slower, you exhaust me !!!!!

its the 3rd largest not 4th

Big country north America

Can people stop putting Fairfield County in the Mid-Atlantic? New England is a region with unique politics, history, architecture, etc. which are very precisely defined as the 6 states. None of that changes if a County has ties to another region or whatever- New Yorker culture is fundamentally different to New England, and I can feel the difference driving west from Connecticut into the Hudson Valley. Hell, much of Northern New England is culturally and economically closer to Quebec than to Southern New England, but it still isn’t considered part of Canada.

I live in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. 20 minutes from Virginia, 20 minutes from Maryland, 30 minutes from Pennsylvania, yet so cutoff from the rest of our own state. We aren’t really the north, we aren’t really the south, we aren’t really the Appalachians, so what are we? 🤷🏻‍♂️

You should’ve put Stafford county as southern

North Dakota actually doesn’t exist
Or at least the people there shouldn’t lol

Louisville is not the midwest

One day Virginia and Maryland will undergo Deyankeerication and be recolonized into the South again 😩

I've lived on or near the edges of several of these regions, and you've got them right. The depiction of Ohio is more accurate than most, as the border in Maryland between Appalachia and Mid-Atlantic. The edges of the South in Northern Virginia and extreme Southern Maryland are interesting, too. The western edge of the Midwest in Kansas used to be farther east, but I hear that counties along your border are greener than they used to be.

This author is a moron. The Civil War was a conflict about individual states rights. After losing the war for three years the North was ready to call it quits. Then the emotional idea of slavery was used for support of the northern war of aggression.

Northern, central and western NYS definitely isn’t like the traditional definition of Appalachia - NYS, even outside of the NYC metro area, is likely to be more democratic leaning, w/ more alignment and affinity for higher education, human rights and separation of church and state - this libertarian ideology is definitely not aligned to the rural culture of the southern Appalachian region

Pittsburgh can’t be Appalachian, they have Wiz Khalifa 😂

Because the Northeast US has so many ppl, it might be worthwhile to add another category.
As someone from DC & northern va, it’s odd to think of NYC as mid Atlantic. You could split NYC, Jersey, southeeastern PA (Philly) & eastern Connecticut into their own category, maybe the tristate.
Hartford and New Haven in eastern Conneticut are probably closer culturally to NYC than Boston. New Haven is right across the Long Island sound from Long Island.
Baltimore and Philly are similar which is probably why you lumped everything together.
I still to tend to think of NYC and Connecticut as northeastern, and Delaware, Md, and northern Virginia is mid Atlantic

One of my granddaughters born in MA lives in the UK. She decided to go to college in the U.S. She traveled from the east across to the west coast. She ended up in a college in her birth state. But her take on the friendliest and nicest people centered on the Midwest. This was the opinion of an 18 year old.