Most of Canada is essentially uninhabitable. About 85% of the population lives within 100 miles of the US border. Canada's largest province is Nunavut. It is 8 times the size of the entire UK, and has just 37,000 people.
@gotham61, just for the record, Nunavut is actually one of the 3 territories, and the other 10 are provinces. Until 1999, it was combined with today's Northwest Territories, and was the largest country division in the world. Now, due to that split, it's been superseded by the Russian republic of Yakutia in Siberia.
@@only3daysthengone13 You’re right. I meant to say Jerusalem, not Israel as a whole. I also meant New York State as a whole which has 20 million people, of which about 2.2 million are Jewish
I grew up in Mississippi where people lack adequate income and decent paying jobs, are stressed from always having to worry about how to make ends meet, the under-funding and under-investment in healthcare, lack of adequate health insurance coverage, failure to expand public healthcare programs that were designed to help low-income & individuals with chronic conditions, skepticism of healthcare (either due to historic or present perceptions of mistreatment), and the lack of access to fresh foods. Though I no longer live in Mississippi, I grew up in Jackson where there used to be places to buy fresh meat & produce within walking distance of my parents’ house. Because many grocery stores either closed or consolidated in the 90s thanks to the influence of Walmart's expansion into the grocery business at the same time, the nearest grocery store is a 15-minute drive from their home. My parents' house is within the City of Jackson (population of approximately 150,000 people). There is a Dollar General store which sells high-sodium and high-sugar processed foods and, unfortunately, that’s what many people rely on. It is easier to get McDonald’s in Jackson than it is to get fresh fruit and vegetables. Additionally, many people drink carbonated drinks (what you would call a fizzy drink in the U.K.) because the drinking water is generally not safe for consumption (search “Jackson Water Crisis”). That’s just my thoughts on why the place I grew up have the lowest life expectancy in the United States.
@javionriley8739 That's funny as the video asked "what do you think is happening in Mississippi?" and I gave my honest, well-informed opinion as a person who currently lives in the Northeast with a career in public health. My comment was not a babble, the content therein simply exceeded your level of comprehension and intelligence. I bid you a good day.
@@marcmcpherson6960 Not really! If you’ll actually us factual base data via credible sources (CDC, government organizations) you’ll get more accurate data instead of a RUclips “scientist video Anyone with basic knowledge of statistics know that 5% above or below the median number is classified as error aka to close to call (in political terms) Mississippi is only 5 years below California! Not realizing that 40% of California populations is illegal & are not counted/included in the overall health number! And this is coming from a young male who’s comes from a medical background family going back to 1890 thanks to HBCU (we didn’t run up north just to fail like some of you people did), The state that had the most Covid vaccination is the black population in Mississippi (google is free to use) , Mississippi is number 1 or 2 in terms of states with most black doctors & black own health clinics especially in black rural counties ! This video is irrelevant & inaccurate!! Mississippi is now 37% (use to be 50th) in education as of 2023 & is projected to be 23% in 2 years! While places like nyc are projected to get lower !!
@neutrino78x Jackson has had water quality issues for over 4 decades and the state government has regularly turned its back on the needs of the residents of Jackson. The U.S. Congressman for Mississippi's District 2 (which covers two-thirds of the City of Jackson) regularly advocates for federal assistance to fix the city's water, sewer & road infrastructure issues. The other Congressman (who's district covers the remaining third of the city) along with the elected officials at the State level, couldn't be bothered with the issues in Jackson. The State have been exploring ways to take the State Capitol District off the City of Jackson's water system for years, in addition to the many State offices that have been relocated to the suburbs. Like with several cities in the South, the State & City have a contentious relationship where the casualties are the residents of Jackson.
Altough I'm from California and have my share of "not so great food" now and then, I had a hard time in the south finding healthy foods when eating out. I was also invited to a home cooked meal and it was good, but mostly deep fried stuff and the drink options were Sweet tea (very sugary iced tea) or Coke or beer. That was it. Here is something I found: "According to a study published in the American Heart Journal, a "Southern"-style diet is the worst diet for your heart. The study looked at dietary patterns and heart risk, and those who regularly eat Southern food -- like fried chicken, fried okra, biscuits, and gravy -- saw a 56% increased risk of cardiovascular disease, more than any other "unhealthy" diet". I do have to add, that many of these foods there are crazy delicious, it's just that the healthy options are hard to find.
Regions in the US are more cultural than geographic. I’m from New Mexico and even though it is technically in the southern half of the US, it’s not a “southern” state because in the US, the south means the southeastern portion of the country. This part of the country is the southwest. Same thing for the “Midwest”. The Midwest is not the middle-western part of the country, geographically speaking. It’s more like the north central part of the country.
Just remember that when you say "try to move industry to..." we don't have a centralized form of government in charge of that. Each state functions independently like a country. So Mississippi as a state needs to figure out how to attract businesses and therefore jobs. It's not as if the Federal government will look at a state and move things around in order to distribute businesses evenly or something.
@kabir, you hit the nail on the head. The deep south, which includes Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, lack job opportunities, poor education systems, a lot of poor with no healthcare and now many communities are struggling with safe water and access to water. It's sad all around.
Its also what people eat here. Im in Alabama and I can tell you the black people here eat the worst diets you can imagine . They eat like 8 year olds. Everything is fried or junk food ,chicken wings etc and they drink alot of high sugar drinks like koolaid sweet tea. Most older black people have high blood pressure and are overwieght
They didn’t even require a gym class in schools when I lived in Mississippi (01”-06”)! It’s too hot to go outside and play plus the generational unhealthy eating habits don’t help either.
None here in TN either from what I've seen. I know when my 34 year old was in school they had it but one semester was required in my 18 year old's school, and that didn't have to be regular PE, they had yoga and "sports and games" class where you just learn about ... sports and games. If you were in a sport you were exempt from even that. @@fayebell4716
The 'Romance' in "Romance Languages" is indeed the Romans sort of Romance. :) They're the languages that derive directly from Latin. The big 5 are Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian. With regard to people moving to Texas: if you look at that map again, you'll see a handful of blue splotches in Texas. Those are the cities. People aren't moving to rural Texas at all, but they are swarming to its cities and some suburbs, and since that map was done by county, only the urban counties turned blue. (You'll also probably notice that California is pretty solidly light blue or yellow, signifying slight population growth or neither growth nor loss. While California is growing more slowly than the nation, it's still not actually *declining* in population. There is a political agenda which leads to many claims about a population drain from that state being highly exaggerated and over-dramatized.)
I saw data that shows that one of the biggest drivers of longevity in Minnesota is that many settlers there were from Scandinavian countries, which have higher longevities than average.
Hi Kabir! Interesting maps. As far as longevity goes, it's interesting to see that the south tends to have a lower life expectancy. Also, the south has the highest ratio of black to white people. Could it be that perhaps the black communities are at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing health care?
Absolutely. They are also not taken as seriously and less likely to report pain or under-report pain levels. And in Tennessee the low wage worker will not qualify for state insurance even if they have no insurance available at work so we have many, many people going without health care at all. The only way you can get it is if you HAVE A BABY. That's what they told my daughter when she applied and was turned down. Everyone told her "apply for tenncare" lol yeah right. If you have a baby and stay under a certain income you will qualify until that baby is 18 years old. I had to apply when my son became ill a few years back, and they gave it to both of us because he's a minor, but the day he turned 18 we got that "recertification letter" that yanked our insurance away. My son is trying to get on disability because he's pretty much bedridden and his health care costs are in the thousands per month, but they already turned him down once. If you're on disability you get medicaid, but until then I'm working myself to death just to pay for his meds. He can't get his respiratory and physical therapy until he gets on Tenncare again. It's so messed up. We are not black but brown but it's the same for everyone poor here.
Yeah I would say so. We certainly have some heart stopping food. I think another thing is that the average life span is quite varied across the South. My county's life expectancy is 77 which is about average for the US. Along the Delta, it's around 60-70 for lifespan. I'm going to suspect it's the food plus a high black population who have a higher proclivity for heart disease as well as being incredibly rural for miles so there's not a ton of access to healthy food there. The Eastern KY coalfields are very similar. It's a food desert plus the older folks with black lung are dying at younger ages than usual.
@@NannerBrams That's another great point that jobs have a huge impact! If you include things like farming, logging, fishing, etc., you're a lot more likely to die or be injured in those type of professions, compared to an office worker!
Health care access in those states is abysmal. The only reason why Florida isn't the same color is because retirees move there, so their elder community is higher just because old people come there already old. Tennessee's motto is Agriculture and commerce" but it should be "home of the prison for profit industry". That's right. Tennessee, Florida, and Texas have the most prisons that make money off keeping people in prison. We have the worst health care access next to Mississippi. We have the highest maternal mortality rate. But yeah sure we are one of the top states for businesses because they get some awesome tax breaks here as long as our governor can cash in on some of it. I can imagine you understand why there are so many black Americans concentrated in the south. It's not because they like the heat. And yeah romance is "in Roman". Thanks for another fun video, Kabir! I always look forward to your face. I laughed about how you said "reckon". I thought that was a US Southern word!
Hey Kabir! On the subject of learning about the US, I have a recommendation for you. A channel called "That Is Interesting" is posting a series of videos titled "A Regional Breakdown of the United States." I *heartily* recommend it. It's probably the best American geography overview I've seen on RUclips, and IMO gives a much better overview of the country than those alphabetical state-by-state dealies, which give such a scattershot view of geography that I sometimes think they can be more confusing than enlightening to people who don't live here.
The opiate crisis lowered the average life expectancy across the board even though average people live longer it skewed the number because so many very young people died.
Lack of affordable health care in Mississippi may be a major problem there. Health care may also soon reduce life expectancy in Texas and other states recently limiting health care for women and others in their states. People -- including doctors -- are fleeing to states with affordable and accessible health care not limited by legislation. There are also population shifts coming in sates like Florida banning books and censuring the teaching the true American history. Teachers are quitting and colleges/universities are having trouble recruiting students and retaining professors due to restrictive (and ludicrous!) state legislation. BTW: Romance languages include French and Spanish. It simply refers to languages influenced by Latin -- the language of the ROMAN Empire. Russian, English, German and Italian are also Romance languages, I believe.
Growing up in New York, I am accustomed to there being a lot of Jewish culture as any other culture. I was walking in NYC with a Canadian friend at Christmas time. He asked why the decorations were red, green, blue and white. At the time I thought that was a funny question. I told him red and green for Christmas, blue and white for Hanukkah. People in other areas aren't exposed to Jewish culture as much as we are in New York.
The variation in life expectancy is mostly due to greater or poorer access to health care. The southern states with lower life expectancy mostly rejected expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, so many poorer people in those states simply don't have good access to affordable care.
I know it is over-simplifying something that also has to do with economic differences, medical problems, etc..., but Southern states are also hotter and more humid on average. I don't think we get out to exercise as much as we should because of it. Some of the states with higher life expectancy are states where it is common to spend more times outdoors.
Re life expectancy, recall that Repub states generally restrict health care, especially women’s health care. The USA’s maternal death rate is abominable.
It’s much worse, political ideology also limits access to funding for things like Medicare subsidies in many of these states. The affordable health care act was implemented by one party so all of the other party suffers in these states that refuse the funding.
I believe water usage includes averaging in the use of irrigation, which is high for farms in dry areas. If you get a lot of rain, farms need to use less irrigation, so on average, the population will use less water.
Sunshine definitely plays a role in life expectancy. Colorado has more sunny days than any other state (300) and they are high on that scale along with California and Hawaii. Also more sunny days usually means more active population.
@@burnout_2017 In spite of its nickname, Florida's average of 101 clear days each year is actually only middling by US standards. If you want sunny days, the mountain states (like Colorado, natch) or the southwestern states (including California, which clocks in 146 sunny days per year) are definitely the places to be. My home state of Oregon, on the other hand, is definitely one to avoid! We only get sunny days in the summer months.
Some of the life difference in my opinion is our food. Southern food is delicious but not really healthy. I know just here in Georgia which is the largest state east of the Mississippi south Georgia has nothing. If you go below Macon there are no towns with open stores. These people may have to drive 50-100 miles to get food or see a doctor. I live in Athens Ga which is a college town. If the University of Georgia was not there we would not be as big. Years ago i had a relative in one of our two huge hospitals and a man had been flew from South Georgia to this hospital. They family was over a hundred miles from home and was sleepjng at the hospital. I knew the hospital had places that families could stay cheap. This family were farmers and they just didnt have any money. I paid for them to stay in one of the hospital duplexs. It was thirty dollars a night and they could walk to this place it was close. The woman was so worried about what the insurance would pay. She was looking at a half a million bill. The hospital was giving her a discount and the insurance would pay 80% . That left her with owing $100,000. This was only the hospital bill not the doctor or life flight bill. I told her what my family members had done. Put everything they own in her name or the kids name. Make her husband own nothing on paper. Then divorce each other, but still live together. That way the doctors and hospital cant go after their property. Pay them something every month and they cant go after you. I have a friend that has cancer and him and his wife had to do this. He owes close to two million in bills. He works at the County and they pay close to a thousand a month for Insurance, and its horribly. This Insurance wont pay for a lot of his treatments. So they charge him. Sadly they will get his retirement unless they can find a loop hole. My husband took a early retirement and we had to buy our Insurance. That was a NIGHTMARE!! We found some for him and our son got $350. a month and it pays really good. Im on disability and ive got government insurance but it not the best. People in South Georgia have nowhere to go for major health problem. They have to go to a hospital that has specialist working there. I'm so lucky that i live in the country but in 15 minutes i can be in Athens.
This country has so many immigrants from everywhere, it leads to some interesting things. For example, after Warsaw, the city with the highest population of people with Polish heritage is Chicago.
There are similar disparities in life expectancy in the UK. I remember reading that Blackpool has about a 7 year gap in life expectancy relative to the rest of the UK.
11:20 is a good example for Europeans to see in order to understand why we don't use HSR. Within each of those regions is world class public transit. But we don't use trains to go from one to other because they are simply too far apart. For example "Northern California" to "Cascadia" is 800 miles or 1287 km. Even if we built an HSR all that way, it would take, best case scenario, roughly four hours. But you can fly it in about 2 hours. Same with Chicago ("Great lakes Region") to New York, roughly the same distance. (btw they have some of these regions extended a little two far. "Northern California" should really be labeled "San Francisco Bay Area" (I live in the SF Bay Area), and they have it extending down into the Central Valley, which is definitely not correct. The Bay Area region is just the nine counties that touch the San Francisco Bay. The Central Valley is out in the middle of nowhere and not part of that same cluster. Not only in terms of population density (the Bay Area has roughly the same amount of people, but in a much smaller area) but also culturally; the Central Valley is MAGA/Trumpers and in the Bay Area we are strongly against that. So that vertical line they have coming out of Northern California is not correct. Great Lakes region is also too large, Chicago is the only significant city in that area.)
The map about Jewish population in the states is really fascinating for Georgia. Almost the entirety of the Jewish population lives in Metro Atlanta (around 120k people). Some of it is from transplants from NYC, but the core of the community came in the 19th century, mostly from German-Jewish merchants and industrialists. The quickly took control of manufacturing and department stores in the city and became a large part of the city’s monied class at one point. Of course, because of those Jewish heritage they were relegated to somewhat of a second class status thanks to Jim Crow, but overtime they operated within the margins between the Southern Whites and Atlanta’s Black community. During the civil rights movement they worked closely with Dr King as they wished to be free of segregation for both business and personal l reasons. When segregation ended, Jewish business owners began taking on roles in government and that paved the way for the Black middle and upper class to take over just a few short years later. That partnership allowed Atlanta to come out of Jim Crow focused on getting as far away from it as possible. In fact, one of the biggest reasons why Atlanta became as big as it did as fast as it did can be attributed to its large Jewish population unlike any other city within 500 miles. The closest, Miami.
Your comment about Texas is correct. That’s why he noted that the browns don’t show a percentage drop. Most of the brown in Texas is nearly unchanged. Meanwhile, the greens are a sharp increase. So, even though the greens cover a lesser area, making TX look predominantly brown, it’s misleading, as the narrator correctly notes. Texas is a solidly “green” state (increasing population) even though it appears mostly “brown” on the map. Anyway, your observation/opinion is 100% correct.
I would take the megaregion map with a huge grain of salt. The "front range" megalopolis contains Albuquerque, where I live, as well as Colorado Springs, Denver, a bit of Wyoming, and even Salt Lake. I think you can make the argument that Fort Collins down to Colorado Springs or Pueblo is a megaregion, but including Albuquerque and Salt Lake is a big stretch. I mean their both separated from Denver by the entire Rocky Mountains, and definitely aren't growing into each other. If they're going that broad, they might as well extend it down to El Paso and up to Boise.
As a Mississippian, I'm from Desoto County which is probably the wealthiest County in the state. Desoto Co is probably the healthiest in the state too. We have been seeing a population boom the past decade and it's only gotten boomy'er. Houses and businesses going up everywhere. Both the town I live in and where I grew up are building to be more pedestrian friendly and parks. I'm all for it! I want to see my state be successful.
@jarrettlowery2802 Could be. Idk exactly. I've been all over the state and nowhere seems to have as much "happenin" going as up here. There's so many very large houses going up where I grew up. We are also close to Memphis. But I don't mind being corrected. I'm basically going off of a visual observation.
@jacobnascar1562 idk that was just a guess I made based on how wealthy Natchez and Oxford seem to be compared to Southaven. I'm from the southern part of the state tho so you'd probably know better as I don't go your way too often
Broadly generalizing, the two demographics with the highest poverty rates in the U.S. are people in the more rural areas and people of color. Unfortunately for the state of Mississippi, they have both. This is true for other states in the southeastern U.S., as well as Native American reservations. At 4:40, you noticed the rural areas with high African-American populations, and this is after the "Great Migration" in the twentieth century to cities in the North and West. Those are the areas where the most slave plantations were located more than 160 years ago. The map at 9:15 shows rural areas throughout the country losing population. People are moving to cities everywhere, but predominantly to those in warmer climates and to those with lower real estate prices. Regarding Canada's low population, the country is currently offering money, like a signing bonus in sports, to people in certain professions to move to Canada. As does the U.S, Canada has immigrants from all over the world, but being a member of the British Commonwealth has resulted in significant migration from those nations. I don't know what the immigration rules are. My home state of Rhode Island has the highest percentage of Catholics, although few that I know follow all of the Church's teachings. Most of the common ethnic ancestries here are Catholic countries: Italy, Ireland, Portugal, French-Canada, and Latin America.
Hey kabir, I’m an American visiting the uk right now. I’d love to meet you and possibly do a video or reaction with you as an American to show a different pov of our country.
To add a little bit of context. To the video. A couple of months ago ,the Hispanic population in Texas surpassed that of the caucasian population, the California stste motto us Eureka because according to legend, John Sutter supposedly said Eureka I found it in relation to finding the initial gold nugget that kicked off rhe the gold rush in 1848. San Jose is in the heart of Silicon Valley which explains the high population of Asians , likewise , the tech and aerospace industries in Seattle ( Boeing and Microsoft are based in the Seattle Metro area.) Historically speaking the Area areaIn has always had a higher pop of Asians given many came over in the 19th century ( mostly men to help build the rest of Western Pacific railroad and to work as fisherman and farmers in the Central Valley/ San Joaquin Valley along the Sacramento river delta. A lot of Chinese American farmers took over farms that were owned by Japanese families after the government "relocated families " in Concentration camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor . Of course the reasons there's a higher population of blacks in the South is due to slavery Montana and Wyoming which are two of least populated states in the country, cattle outnumber people. It's not unusual to be driving diown interstate 35 in Dallas, Tx and see cows grazing and looking at he cars whizzing by. I've seen this on my trips to visit family friends in Dallas over the years. Within the last couple of weeks, it was reported that the political leaders in Phoenix, Arizona put a permanent halt in the building of new homes due to the region's quickly running out of water.
12:50 "Is this New York?" Yes it is. The vast majority of Jewish New Yorkers live in the New York City gigaplex at the southeast tip of the state. Much of upstate New York is rural (and beautiful) and very few Jews live there.
My grandfather and great grandparents moved from the Azores to Cambridge (Massachusetts, not the one in England), and it always seemed to random to me until I learned there's a huge Portuguese immigrant community there. Apparently I still have quite a lot of extended family over there, including a third cousin who played soccer (or I guess football) for Portugal and some club teams! So that's kind of interesting.
I live in Los Angeles and I’m Jewish. My mom is Jewish and my dad is Catholic. I’m half Hispanic and half Jewish. A lot of Jews live in LA. For instance, the celebrities Jonah Hill, Jack Black and Joseph Gordon Levitt are some of them.
Jewish is a RELIGION, *not* an ethnic group. There's Jews in Ethiopia, Israel, England, Spain, Germany, Russia, etc. Using this person's argument, I'm half Methodist & half Catholic. One of my nephews is half Buddhist & half Catholic.
I live in Southern California and the map of the religions show California as mostly Catholic which is strange since I’m protestant and I live in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood but the churches are mostly protestant.
11:47 Its a very interesting fact that more than 85% of all Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border,that’s why there’s so much empty land in Canada, it’s dam cold.🥶
I live in Mississippi and I am 65. My health is about average. I would be better if I didn’t have a accident at work that left me disabled. The water usage includes showers and probably people with swimming pools.
The older they are the more their borders were defined by geographic barriers and landmarks and the more their size is appropriate to horse powered land travel, vs lines on a map and mechanical transportation.
Kabir, the US doesn't have a "work/life balance". I live in one of the counties with more cows than people. As with everything else, money is the reason Mississippi won't get better.
I was born and raised in Mississippi and I don't think people realize how bad the poverty actually is down here. Half of the time growing up I didn't even have running water and I'm only 21
Come on. You’re like Texarkana or Kansas City. Take offense but Reno is NoCal and Northern Nevada all day long. Suck it up and get over being offended by descriptors.
From what I have heard. The south is called the bible belt. And has a large population of Baptist. I have heard there some states that have a lot of people with poor health. Because good health is not easy to get. And a lot of people that are low income. I also saw a show on P.B.S pubic TV. That said they can tell if there are a lot of people with asthma,by there zip code. What they did is,to look for property that was cheap. They were usely near companies that had smoke stacks. Since the air quality was not very good,a lot of people got sick.
The orange, yellow, red states tend to have high poverty and bad health services. This is the core "hillbilly" area of heavily fried food, smoking and tobacco chewing and a strong gun culture. That makes for low longevity.
The map of the oldest buildings is incorrect. Southern CA was invaded by the Spanish before or at the same time as much of the east coast was being colonized. There are buildings from the 17th and even 16th centuries in CA.
Drugs are probably the biggest life ender in impoverished areas, this isn't the Pot of my day that in retrospect was mild, and certainly never killed anyone outright, we're talking stuff like Heroin, Crystal Meth and Fentanyl, and in quantities.
As many videos as you react to U.S. videos, I still find it odd that you are not aware which states are which. Also, you don’t seem to notice things literally in your face and it’s happening more and more.
We're a long way away from the 19th century, when if you were a political cartoonist and you wanted to indicate a wealthy person, you would draw them as fat. These days, excess weight is a poverty marker in the US. Obesity rises along with poverty rates here.
Most Black Americans are African American. The descendants of slaves whose ancestors were brought from Africa. Mostly to work the plantations in the south, aka south east. 🤦🏻♂️ You find large African American populations mainly still in the South and in some of the northern cities where many moved for industrial job opportunities in the late 1800s to mid 1900s. You might have noticed that there’re African American accents and dialects with many shared features, while you do not have an Afro-British accent.
They eat food that will clog your arteries REAL fast in the South, and yes, there are a lot of poor people who don't exactly work out a lot. Nor are they able to afford normal doctor visits. Kinda sad when you have to choose rent over health.
Most of Canada is essentially uninhabitable. About 85% of the population lives within 100 miles of the US border.
Canada's largest province is Nunavut. It is 8 times the size of the entire UK, and has just 37,000 people.
lol yeah when you look at a population map it is by the grace of the God that Canada is even a country and not part of the US.
@gotham61, just for the record, Nunavut is actually one of the 3 territories, and the other 10 are provinces. Until 1999, it was combined with today's Northwest Territories, and was the largest country division in the world. Now, due to that split, it's been superseded by the Russian republic of Yakutia in Siberia.
There's a joke about Nunavut. It's what is is, because the Anglos wanted None Of It!
There are more Jews in New York than in Jerusalem. The Jews in Florida are mostly retirees from New York.
@@only3daysthengone13 You’re right. I meant to say Jerusalem, not Israel as a whole.
I also meant New York State as a whole which has 20 million people, of which about 2.2 million are Jewish
I grew up in Mississippi where people lack adequate income and decent paying jobs, are stressed from always having to worry about how to make ends meet, the under-funding and under-investment in healthcare, lack of adequate health insurance coverage, failure to expand public healthcare programs that were designed to help low-income & individuals with chronic conditions, skepticism of healthcare (either due to historic or present perceptions of mistreatment), and the lack of access to fresh foods. Though I no longer live in Mississippi, I grew up in Jackson where there used to be places to buy fresh meat & produce within walking distance of my parents’ house. Because many grocery stores either closed or consolidated in the 90s thanks to the influence of Walmart's expansion into the grocery business at the same time, the nearest grocery store is a 15-minute drive from their home. My parents' house is within the City of Jackson (population of approximately 150,000 people). There is a Dollar General store which sells high-sodium and high-sugar processed foods and, unfortunately, that’s what many people rely on. It is easier to get McDonald’s in Jackson than it is to get fresh fruit and vegetables. Additionally, many people drink carbonated drinks (what you would call a fizzy drink in the U.K.) because the drinking water is generally not safe for consumption (search “Jackson Water Crisis”). That’s just my thoughts on why the place I grew up have the lowest life expectancy in the United States.
Dude everything you’re babbling about is happening across USA
@javionriley8739 That's funny as the video asked "what do you think is happening in Mississippi?" and I gave my honest, well-informed opinion as a person who currently lives in the Northeast with a career in public health. My comment was not a babble, the content therein simply exceeded your level of comprehension and intelligence. I bid you a good day.
@@marcmcpherson6960 Not really! If you’ll actually us factual base data via credible sources (CDC, government organizations) you’ll get more accurate data instead of a RUclips “scientist video
Anyone with basic knowledge of statistics know that 5% above or below the median number is classified as error aka to close to call (in political terms) Mississippi is only 5 years below California! Not realizing that 40% of California populations is illegal & are not counted/included in the overall health number!
And this is coming from a young male who’s comes from a medical background family going back to 1890 thanks to HBCU (we didn’t run up north just to fail like some of you people did),
The state that had the most Covid vaccination is the black population in Mississippi (google is free to use) , Mississippi is number 1 or 2 in terms of states with most black doctors & black own health clinics especially in black rural counties ! This video is irrelevant & inaccurate!!
Mississippi is now 37% (use to be 50th) in education as of 2023 & is projected to be 23% in 2 years! While places like nyc are projected to get lower !!
water crisis there was a year ago, you guys still didn't fix? Need to elect a member of Congress who can advocate for that. 😲
@neutrino78x Jackson has had water quality issues for over 4 decades and the state government has regularly turned its back on the needs of the residents of Jackson. The U.S. Congressman for Mississippi's District 2 (which covers two-thirds of the City of Jackson) regularly advocates for federal assistance to fix the city's water, sewer & road infrastructure issues. The other Congressman (who's district covers the remaining third of the city) along with the elected officials at the State level, couldn't be bothered with the issues in Jackson. The State have been exploring ways to take the State Capitol District off the City of Jackson's water system for years, in addition to the many State offices that have been relocated to the suburbs. Like with several cities in the South, the State & City have a contentious relationship where the casualties are the residents of Jackson.
Altough I'm from California and have my share of "not so great food" now and then, I had a hard time in the south finding healthy foods when eating out. I was also invited to a home cooked meal and it was good, but mostly deep fried stuff and the drink options were Sweet tea (very sugary iced tea) or Coke or beer. That was it. Here is something I found: "According to a study published in the American Heart Journal, a "Southern"-style diet is the worst diet for your heart. The study looked at dietary patterns and heart risk, and those who regularly eat Southern food -- like fried chicken, fried okra, biscuits, and gravy -- saw a 56% increased risk of cardiovascular disease, more than any other "unhealthy" diet". I do have to add, that many of these foods there are crazy delicious, it's just that the healthy options are hard to find.
The Romance languages include French.Italian,Spanish,Portuguese,Romanian,and Latin
Regions in the US are more cultural than geographic. I’m from New Mexico and even though it is technically in the southern half of the US, it’s not a “southern” state because in the US, the south means the southeastern portion of the country. This part of the country is the southwest. Same thing for the “Midwest”. The Midwest is not the middle-western part of the country, geographically speaking. It’s more like the north central part of the country.
Yes. The Midwest was more middle west when it was named.
Just remember that when you say "try to move industry to..." we don't have a centralized form of government in charge of that. Each state functions independently like a country. So Mississippi as a state needs to figure out how to attract businesses and therefore jobs. It's not as if the Federal government will look at a state and move things around in order to distribute businesses evenly or something.
@kabir, you hit the nail on the head. The deep south, which includes Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, lack job opportunities, poor education systems, a lot of poor with no healthcare and now many communities are struggling with safe water and access to water. It's sad all around.
Red State things
Its also what people eat here. Im in Alabama and I can tell you the black people here eat the worst diets you can imagine . They eat like 8 year olds. Everything is fried or junk food ,chicken wings etc and they drink alot of high sugar drinks like koolaid sweet tea. Most older black people have high blood pressure and are overwieght
They didn’t even require a gym class in schools when I lived in Mississippi (01”-06”)! It’s too hot to go outside and play plus the generational unhealthy eating habits don’t help either.
None here in TN either from what I've seen. I know when my 34 year old was in school they had it but one semester was required in my 18 year old's school, and that didn't have to be regular PE, they had yoga and "sports and games" class where you just learn about ... sports and games. If you were in a sport you were exempt from even that.
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It's only the Texas Triangle that has the huge growth. Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio
And this is going back 13 years and stopped almost 3 years ago.
Now it might be a significantly different map.
As someone from Utah, it's not at all surprising how much water we use. There is a recognized large amount of water wasting here.
Some of the best tasting unhealthiest food comes from the south.
I'm from Mississippi and the only thing I have to brag about when I'm off working is the taste of our food lmao
The 'Romance' in "Romance Languages" is indeed the Romans sort of Romance. :) They're the languages that derive directly from Latin. The big 5 are Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian.
With regard to people moving to Texas: if you look at that map again, you'll see a handful of blue splotches in Texas. Those are the cities. People aren't moving to rural Texas at all, but they are swarming to its cities and some suburbs, and since that map was done by county, only the urban counties turned blue. (You'll also probably notice that California is pretty solidly light blue or yellow, signifying slight population growth or neither growth nor loss. While California is growing more slowly than the nation, it's still not actually *declining* in population. There is a political agenda which leads to many claims about a population drain from that state being highly exaggerated and over-dramatized.)
I saw data that shows that one of the biggest drivers of longevity in Minnesota is that many settlers there were from Scandinavian countries, which have higher longevities than average.
Hi Kabir! Interesting maps. As far as longevity goes, it's interesting to see that the south tends to have a lower life expectancy. Also, the south has the highest ratio of black to white people. Could it be that perhaps the black communities are at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing health care?
Absolutely. They are also not taken as seriously and less likely to report pain or under-report pain levels. And in Tennessee the low wage worker will not qualify for state insurance even if they have no insurance available at work so we have many, many people going without health care at all. The only way you can get it is if you HAVE A BABY. That's what they told my daughter when she applied and was turned down. Everyone told her "apply for tenncare" lol yeah right. If you have a baby and stay under a certain income you will qualify until that baby is 18 years old. I had to apply when my son became ill a few years back, and they gave it to both of us because he's a minor, but the day he turned 18 we got that "recertification letter" that yanked our insurance away. My son is trying to get on disability because he's pretty much bedridden and his health care costs are in the thousands per month, but they already turned him down once. If you're on disability you get medicaid, but until then I'm working myself to death just to pay for his meds. He can't get his respiratory and physical therapy until he gets on Tenncare again. It's so messed up. We are not black but brown but it's the same for everyone poor here.
Romance languages are those that are Roman (Latin) in origin. . .
Having lived in America since I was born I cannot understand the place at all, after 70 years. But these map analyses help us see the bigger picture.
Also, I think life expectancy is tied a lot to what people eat. The food in the south tastes amazing! But it's not health food!
Yeah I would say so. We certainly have some heart stopping food. I think another thing is that the average life span is quite varied across the South. My county's life expectancy is 77 which is about average for the US. Along the Delta, it's around 60-70 for lifespan. I'm going to suspect it's the food plus a high black population who have a higher proclivity for heart disease as well as being incredibly rural for miles so there's not a ton of access to healthy food there. The Eastern KY coalfields are very similar. It's a food desert plus the older folks with black lung are dying at younger ages than usual.
@@NannerBrams That's another great point that jobs have a huge impact! If you include things like farming, logging, fishing, etc., you're a lot more likely to die or be injured in those type of professions, compared to an office worker!
Health care access in those states is abysmal. The only reason why Florida isn't the same color is because retirees move there, so their elder community is higher just because old people come there already old.
Tennessee's motto is Agriculture and commerce" but it should be "home of the prison for profit industry". That's right. Tennessee, Florida, and Texas have the most prisons that make money off keeping people in prison. We have the worst health care access next to Mississippi. We have the highest maternal mortality rate. But yeah sure we are one of the top states for businesses because they get some awesome tax breaks here as long as our governor can cash in on some of it.
I can imagine you understand why there are so many black Americans concentrated in the south. It's not because they like the heat.
And yeah romance is "in Roman".
Thanks for another fun video, Kabir! I always look forward to your face. I laughed about how you said "reckon". I thought that was a US Southern word!
Hey Kabir! On the subject of learning about the US, I have a recommendation for you. A channel called "That Is Interesting" is posting a series of videos titled "A Regional Breakdown of the United States." I *heartily* recommend it. It's probably the best American geography overview I've seen on RUclips, and IMO gives a much better overview of the country than those alphabetical state-by-state dealies, which give such a scattershot view of geography that I sometimes think they can be more confusing than enlightening to people who don't live here.
The opiate crisis lowered the average life expectancy across the board even though average people live longer it skewed the number because so many very young people died.
Live here for 15 years, then you can say you know enough to say everything.
Lack of affordable health care in Mississippi may be a major problem there. Health care may also soon reduce life expectancy in Texas and other states recently limiting health care for women and others in their states. People -- including doctors -- are fleeing to states with affordable and accessible health care not limited by legislation. There are also population shifts coming in sates like Florida banning books and censuring the teaching the true American history. Teachers are quitting and colleges/universities are having trouble recruiting students and retaining professors due to restrictive (and ludicrous!) state legislation. BTW: Romance languages include French and Spanish. It simply refers to languages influenced by Latin -- the language of the ROMAN Empire. Russian, English, German and Italian are also Romance languages, I believe.
Derived from Latin: ie French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, & Romanian. 👍☺️
Growing up in New York, I am accustomed to there being a lot of Jewish culture as any other culture. I was walking in NYC with a Canadian friend at Christmas time. He asked why the decorations were red, green, blue and white. At the time I thought that was a funny question. I told him red and green for Christmas, blue and white for Hanukkah. People in other areas aren't exposed to Jewish culture as much as we are in New York.
The variation in life expectancy is mostly due to greater or poorer access to health care. The southern states with lower life expectancy mostly rejected expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, so many poorer people in those states simply don't have good access to affordable care.
I know it is over-simplifying something that also has to do with economic differences, medical problems, etc..., but Southern states are also hotter and more humid on average. I don't think we get out to exercise as much as we should because of it. Some of the states with higher life expectancy are states where it is common to spend more times outdoors.
Re life expectancy, recall that Repub states generally restrict health care, especially women’s health care. The USA’s maternal death rate is abominable.
It’s much worse, political ideology also limits access to funding for things like Medicare subsidies in many of these states. The affordable health care act was implemented by one party so all of the other party suffers in these states that refuse the funding.
The older population in Florida is predominantly due to retirees moving to warmer weather and golf courses.
I believe water usage includes averaging in the use of irrigation, which is high for farms in dry areas. If you get a lot of rain, farms need to use less irrigation, so on average, the population will use less water.
Even here at the western end of Lake Erie, there's irrigation!
Sunshine definitely plays a role in life expectancy. Colorado has more sunny days than any other state (300) and they are high on that scale along with California and Hawaii. Also more sunny days usually means more active population.
Florida says: hold my 🍺 i believe its even referred to as "the sunshine state".....😂
@@burnout_2017 In spite of its nickname, Florida's average of 101 clear days each year is actually only middling by US standards. If you want sunny days, the mountain states (like Colorado, natch) or the southwestern states (including California, which clocks in 146 sunny days per year) are definitely the places to be.
My home state of Oregon, on the other hand, is definitely one to avoid! We only get sunny days in the summer months.
People are moving to CITIES and out of the rural areas.
Some of the life difference in my opinion is our food. Southern food is delicious but not really healthy. I know just here in Georgia which is the largest state east of the Mississippi south Georgia has nothing. If you go below Macon there are no towns with open stores. These people may have to drive 50-100 miles to get food or see a doctor. I live in Athens Ga which is a college town. If the University of Georgia was not there we would not be as big. Years ago i had a relative in one of our two huge hospitals and a man had been flew from South Georgia to this hospital. They family was over a hundred miles from home and was sleepjng at the hospital. I knew the hospital had places that families could stay cheap. This family were farmers and they just didnt have any money. I paid for them to stay in one of the hospital duplexs. It was thirty dollars a night and they could walk to this place it was close. The woman was so worried about what the insurance would pay. She was looking at a half a million bill. The hospital was giving her a discount and the insurance would pay 80% . That left her with owing $100,000. This was only the hospital bill not the doctor or life flight bill. I told her what my family members had done. Put everything they own in her name or the kids name. Make her husband own nothing on paper. Then divorce each other, but still live together. That way the doctors and hospital cant go after their property. Pay them something every month and they cant go after you. I have a friend that has cancer and him and his wife had to do this. He owes close to two million in bills. He works at the County and they pay close to a thousand a month for Insurance, and its horribly. This Insurance wont pay for a lot of his treatments. So they charge him. Sadly they will get his retirement unless they can find a loop hole. My husband took a early retirement and we had to buy our Insurance. That was a NIGHTMARE!! We found some for him and our son got $350. a month and it pays really good. Im on disability and ive got government insurance but it not the best. People in South Georgia have nowhere to go for major health problem. They have to go to a hospital that has specialist working there. I'm so lucky that i live in the country but in 15 minutes i can be in Athens.
its interesting to see see these maps, i would be curious to see one of the uk
Kabir!!! Great to see the channel blowing up bro! Been here since a few thousand subs, keep grinding bro love the content
Much of Canada is too cold to live there.
This country has so many immigrants from everywhere, it leads to some interesting things. For example, after Warsaw, the city with the highest population of people with Polish heritage is Chicago.
Same with Dearborn, MI & those of Arabic descent.
@@Cricket2731 same in my location: the Twin Cities- many recent Somali and East African immigrants in Minneapolis and many Hmong in St. Paul.
There are similar disparities in life expectancy in the UK. I remember reading that Blackpool has about a 7 year gap in life expectancy relative to the rest of the UK.
11:20 is a good example for Europeans to see in order to understand why we don't use HSR.
Within each of those regions is world class public transit. But we don't use trains to go from one to other because they are simply too far apart.
For example "Northern California" to "Cascadia" is 800 miles or 1287 km. Even if we built an HSR all that way, it would take, best case scenario, roughly four hours. But you can fly it in about 2 hours. Same with Chicago ("Great lakes Region") to New York, roughly the same distance.
(btw they have some of these regions extended a little two far. "Northern California" should really be labeled "San Francisco Bay Area" (I live in the SF Bay Area), and they have it extending down into the Central Valley, which is definitely not correct. The Bay Area region is just the nine counties that touch the San Francisco Bay. The Central Valley is out in the middle of nowhere and not part of that same cluster. Not only in terms of population density (the Bay Area has roughly the same amount of people, but in a much smaller area) but also culturally; the Central Valley is MAGA/Trumpers and in the Bay Area we are strongly against that. So that vertical line they have coming out of Northern California is not correct. Great Lakes region is also too large, Chicago is the only significant city in that area.)
The map about Jewish population in the states is really fascinating for Georgia. Almost the entirety of the Jewish population lives in Metro Atlanta (around 120k people). Some of it is from transplants from NYC, but the core of the community came in the 19th century, mostly from German-Jewish merchants and industrialists. The quickly took control of manufacturing and department stores in the city and became a large part of the city’s monied class at one point. Of course, because of those Jewish heritage they were relegated to somewhat of a second class status thanks to Jim Crow, but overtime they operated within the margins between the Southern Whites and Atlanta’s Black community. During the civil rights movement they worked closely with Dr King as they wished to be free of segregation for both business and personal l reasons. When segregation ended, Jewish business owners began taking on roles in government and that paved the way for the Black middle and upper class to take over just a few short years later. That partnership allowed Atlanta to come out of Jim Crow focused on getting as far away from it as possible. In fact, one of the biggest reasons why Atlanta became as big as it did as fast as it did can be attributed to its large Jewish population unlike any other city within 500 miles. The closest, Miami.
Your comment about Texas is correct. That’s why he noted that the browns don’t show a percentage drop. Most of the brown in Texas is nearly unchanged. Meanwhile, the greens are a sharp increase. So, even though the greens cover a lesser area, making TX look predominantly brown, it’s misleading, as the narrator correctly notes. Texas is a solidly “green” state (increasing population) even though it appears mostly “brown” on the map. Anyway, your observation/opinion is 100% correct.
I would take the megaregion map with a huge grain of salt. The "front range" megalopolis contains Albuquerque, where I live, as well as Colorado Springs, Denver, a bit of Wyoming, and even Salt Lake.
I think you can make the argument that Fort Collins down to Colorado Springs or Pueblo is a megaregion, but including Albuquerque and Salt Lake is a big stretch. I mean their both separated from Denver by the entire Rocky Mountains, and definitely aren't growing into each other. If they're going that broad, they might as well extend it down to El Paso and up to Boise.
As a Mississippian, I'm from Desoto County which is probably the wealthiest County in the state. Desoto Co is probably the healthiest in the state too. We have been seeing a population boom the past decade and it's only gotten boomy'er. Houses and businesses going up everywhere. Both the town I live in and where I grew up are building to be more pedestrian friendly and parks. I'm all for it! I want to see my state be successful.
I'm from covington County but I always thought Lafayette or Adams were the wealthiest
@jarrettlowery2802 Could be. Idk exactly. I've been all over the state and nowhere seems to have as much "happenin" going as up here. There's so many very large houses going up where I grew up. We are also close to Memphis. But I don't mind being corrected. I'm basically going off of a visual observation.
@jacobnascar1562 idk that was just a guess I made based on how wealthy Natchez and Oxford seem to be compared to Southaven. I'm from the southern part of the state tho so you'd probably know better as I don't go your way too often
@@jarrettlowery2802 lol I was down yonder not too long ago on my way to New Orleans for a cruise
@jacobnascar1562 I went through your way too not to long ago cuz I was working in Wisconsin. I gotta say your part does look a lot better than mine
Broadly generalizing, the two demographics with the highest poverty rates in the U.S. are people in the more rural areas and people of color. Unfortunately for the state of Mississippi, they have both. This is true for other states in the southeastern U.S., as well as Native American reservations. At 4:40, you noticed the rural areas with high African-American populations, and this is after the "Great Migration" in the twentieth century to cities in the North and West. Those are the areas where the most slave plantations were located more than 160 years ago.
The map at 9:15 shows rural areas throughout the country losing population. People are moving to cities everywhere, but predominantly to those in warmer climates and to those with lower real estate prices.
Regarding Canada's low population, the country is currently offering money, like a signing bonus in sports, to people in certain professions to move to Canada. As does the U.S, Canada has immigrants from all over the world, but being a member of the British Commonwealth has resulted in significant migration from those nations. I don't know what the immigration rules are.
My home state of Rhode Island has the highest percentage of Catholics, although few that I know follow all of the Church's teachings. Most of the common ethnic ancestries here are Catholic countries: Italy, Ireland, Portugal, French-Canada, and Latin America.
Hey kabir, I’m an American visiting the uk right now. I’d love to meet you and possibly do a video or reaction with you as an American to show a different pov of our country.
To add a little bit of context. To the video. A couple of months ago ,the Hispanic population in Texas surpassed that of the caucasian population, the California stste motto us Eureka because according to legend, John Sutter supposedly said Eureka I found it in relation to finding the initial gold nugget that kicked off rhe the gold rush in 1848. San Jose is in the heart of Silicon Valley which explains the high population of Asians , likewise , the tech and aerospace industries in Seattle ( Boeing and Microsoft are based in the Seattle Metro area.) Historically speaking the Area areaIn has always had a higher pop of Asians given many came over in the 19th century ( mostly men to help build the rest of Western Pacific railroad and to work as fisherman and farmers in the Central Valley/ San Joaquin Valley along the Sacramento river delta. A lot of Chinese American farmers took over farms that were owned by Japanese families after the government "relocated families " in Concentration camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor .
Of course the reasons there's a higher population of blacks in the South is due to slavery
Montana and Wyoming which are two of least populated states in the country, cattle outnumber people. It's not unusual to be driving diown interstate 35 in Dallas, Tx and see cows grazing and looking at he cars whizzing by. I've seen this on my trips to visit family friends in Dallas over the years.
Within the last couple of weeks, it was reported that the political leaders in Phoenix, Arizona put a permanent halt in the building of new homes due to the region's quickly running out of water.
12:50 "Is this New York?" Yes it is. The vast majority of Jewish New Yorkers live in the New York City gigaplex at the southeast tip of the state. Much of upstate New York is rural (and beautiful) and very few Jews live there.
My grandfather and great grandparents moved from the Azores to Cambridge (Massachusetts, not the one in England), and it always seemed to random to me until I learned there's a huge Portuguese immigrant community there. Apparently I still have quite a lot of extended family over there, including a third cousin who played soccer (or I guess football) for Portugal and some club teams! So that's kind of interesting.
I live in Los Angeles and I’m Jewish. My mom is Jewish and my dad is Catholic. I’m half Hispanic and half Jewish. A lot of Jews live in LA. For instance, the celebrities Jonah Hill, Jack Black and Joseph Gordon Levitt are some of them.
Jewish is a RELIGION, *not* an ethnic group. There's Jews in Ethiopia, Israel, England, Spain, Germany, Russia, etc.
Using this person's argument, I'm half Methodist & half Catholic. One of my nephews is half Buddhist & half Catholic.
Also in Canada our minimum wage is 15$ an hour. Shits expensive but we make more at the lowest end.
I don't understand why people are not subscribing to your channel. Free way to tip you.
I live in Southern California and the map of the religions show California as mostly Catholic which is strange since I’m protestant and I live in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood but the churches are mostly protestant.
11:47 Its a very interesting fact that more than 85% of all Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border,that’s why there’s so much empty land in Canada, it’s dam cold.🥶
I live in Mississippi and I am 65. My health is about average. I would be better if I didn’t have a accident at work that left me disabled. The water usage includes showers and probably people with swimming pools.
The continental US is divided into 48 states*. The other two are Alaska and Hawaii.
*and the District of Columbia, where the national capital is.
The older they are the more their borders were defined by geographic barriers and landmarks and the more their size is appropriate to horse powered land travel, vs lines on a map and mechanical transportation.
Kabir, the US doesn't have a "work/life balance". I live in one of the counties with more cows than people. As with everything else, money is the reason Mississippi won't get better.
I was born and raised in Mississippi and I don't think people realize how bad the poverty actually is down here. Half of the time growing up I didn't even have running water and I'm only 21
80% of Canadas population actually lives within 150 miles of the US border. The northern territories of Canada are barren tundras.
Money, education and healthcare are the issues in the south but what keeps them from improving is politics sadly.
To infinity and beyond!
MIDWAY PAET 2?
You should maps on dialect in America!
Life expectancy also has a lot to do with the food they eat. Southerners eat a higher fat content.
As A Resident Of Reno, Nevada I Take Offense To Being Lumped With Northern CA!!
Come on. You’re like Texarkana or Kansas City. Take offense but Reno is NoCal and Northern Nevada all day long. Suck it up and get over being offended by descriptors.
From what I have heard. The south is called the bible belt. And has a large population of Baptist. I have heard there some states that have a lot of people with poor health. Because good health is not easy to get. And a lot of people that are low income. I also saw a show on P.B.S pubic TV. That said they can tell if there are a lot of people with asthma,by there zip code. What they did is,to look for property that was cheap. They were usely near companies that had smoke stacks. Since the air quality was not very good,a lot of people got sick.
New Hampshire has the best moto: Live free or die.
There are fewer people in Canada because it’s so cold.
The reason there are so many Catholics in the NE isn't Portugal. It's the Irish.
And Italians.
@@JustMe-dc6ks True, Sorry, can't believe I didn't think of them.
The orange, yellow, red states tend to have high poverty and bad health services. This is the core "hillbilly" area of heavily fried food, smoking and tobacco chewing and a strong gun culture. That makes for low longevity.
Strong “Conservative” values of bigotry, corruption, & willful ignorance.
Deep fried foods and gators!
The map of the oldest buildings is incorrect. Southern CA was invaded by the Spanish before or at the same time as much of the east coast was being colonized. There are buildings from the 17th and even 16th centuries in CA.
Drugs are probably the biggest life ender in impoverished areas, this isn't the Pot of my day that in retrospect was mild, and certainly never killed anyone outright, we're talking stuff like Heroin, Crystal Meth and Fentanyl, and in quantities.
Life expectancy= lifestyle.
The states with the lowest life expectancy are also the states with highest obesity.
A major factor in the low life expectancy throughout the South is the large percentage of blacks there ,with their more unhealthy lifestyles .
I can’t be the type of food people eat as to why their life expectancy is lower.
As many videos as you react to U.S. videos, I still find it odd that you are not aware which states are which. Also, you don’t seem to notice things literally in your face and it’s happening more and more.
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Mississippi is the most obese state and also has on average the poorest people in the US. These factors must have a relation.
We're a long way away from the 19th century, when if you were a political cartoonist and you wanted to indicate a wealthy person, you would draw them as fat. These days, excess weight is a poverty marker in the US. Obesity rises along with poverty rates here.
Cows are America secret.
This just goes to show we need to start eating insects or lab grown meats or meatlike chemical products. 🤔
good food in the south so you live shorter...the give and take
Most Black Americans are African American. The descendants of slaves whose ancestors were brought from Africa. Mostly to work the plantations in the south, aka south east. 🤦🏻♂️
You find large African American populations mainly still in the South and in some of the northern cities where many moved for industrial job opportunities in the late 1800s to mid 1900s.
You might have noticed that there’re African American accents and dialects with many shared features, while you do not have an Afro-British accent.
This is way out of date lots of things have changed for the better or worse
It's okay bud, Americans don't even know everything about America. LOL
They eat food that will clog your arteries REAL fast in the South, and yes, there are a lot of poor people who don't exactly work out a lot. Nor are they able to afford normal doctor visits. Kinda sad when you have to choose rent over health.
Liars figure... and ... figures lie.
MEEEthane took me out 😅 METHane. 🇨🇦
I think the British pronunciations are meethane and eethane. Bless their hearts. 😂