How a 100 Million Year-Old Coastline Decides US Elections
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“Not half as interesting”: a video on fun ideas you couldn’t stretch out into a long enough video
How a 100 million year-old coastline decided an HAI video title
How a 100 million year-old coastline influenced the posting of this comment
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Someone has to come up with them.
Hai more important than democracy
Imagine losing an election just because some krill died at a 100million year old seacoast
-Roy Moore
Krill rigged the election.
No wonder trump was so salty.
@@sean3533 republicans be like: _we have realizedit wasnt the Russians, it was an ancient race of water creators that are trying to steal the election!_
@@nevreiha ur gay
That "Sucking" acronym was a creativity flex of epic proportions
or CFoEP for short
JacksFilms vs HAI acronyms battle!
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A video that isn't sponsored by Brilliant, Skillshare OR Curiosity Stream
I never thought the day would come
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Squarespace?
I’m glad, all of those services are just bloat
VPN?
Audible?
We somehow have the same effect in France ! "Granite votes right, limestone votes left" is a famous quote in electoral sociology from Siegfred analysing votes after the French revolution
Interesting
Very interesting. What's the geological connection? For instance, as this video pointed out, people in the "shrimp belt" tended to originally vote for more pro-slavery policies, then for pro-segregation policies, then for more conservative policies in general.
I don't really see how Granite and Limestone would cause that, but I would love to know
@@Egerit100 Farming techniques and intensity allowed by different types of soil meant different social structure. With granite there is large land ownership, a lot of dispersed hamlet for the farmers, so the nobility and the clergy were strong because they were the social cement between all these small social clusters. With limestone, urban centers are favored and so small owners, merchants, teachers, writers and journalists are in large number, then with industrialization came the working class, all more leftist, especially at a time of royalty.
Of course it is an indirect effect. The real study of Siegfred focused on how the property structure, the relation to authority and the hold of traditionnal structures have effects on the vote. But all of these sometimes are strongly linked to the soil
This video was wild... but not as wild as the conspiracy theorie that Sam from Wendover and Sam from HAI are the same person.
You may want to sit down. I have something to tell you.
@@angryox3102 Don't, let him believe his own words.
I mean, ive never seen them in the same room. Kinda like Batman.
Sam from Wendover wishes he was this good
When he said “where are these slaves going to make me the most money” I thought he was about to do a skillshare ad
USA: less than 300 years old
Coastline which decides how the USA should be: 100,000,000 years old
Well the land is older than the country most of the time 😂
When you have heard Adam Ragusea say «Macon, Georgia» so many times that he was the only thing you could think of when you heard «Macon, Georgia» in this video. 😂
Adam made a video about this a few weeks ago. I think Sam’s a fan
I think that was a deliberate shout out to Adam Ragusea, because Adam did a video on this very subject (but not from a voting angle) not that long ago.
especially when the main thesis of this video has been in a few of Adams recent videos but relating to food not elections
@@hamslicemcdooogle8080 what's the video?
@@kenklose what's the video?
We were so worried about the Lizard People we forgot about the Krill People...good video, sam!!!
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Its very interesting how the geological features of the us affect regional politics. A good book to read would be "down to earth: natures role in american history" by Ted Steinberg.
I think it's fair to say geological features affect regional politics in ALL countries to some degree. Just look at how people tend to think and vote in mountain, desert, rainy, and agricultural (so, usually flat and with fertile soil) areas.
10/10 would watch again if stuck in a time loop where I forget what I did the day before
Just get dementia. Problem solved!
Same
Were some of those lines from prior videos? I worry about this dementia too much...
Amazing, Fantastic voiceover, no mispronunciation whatsoever!
Does Sam have your family? Blink SOS if you're under duress.
@@johnladuke6475 what
@@aiwanano6507 A recent video joked that people would comment the phrase above. This person is still posting it after we've moved on to the next video and a new topic. Logically, Sam the narrator has kidnapped their family and is threatening harm if the person doesn't post compliments on RUclips.
@@johnladuke6475 Lol sounds plausible, a type of thing Sam would do, actually man I had a hard time finding a meme in this video so I thought I'd just post the old one.
@@johnladuke6475 SOS alett, Sam the airplane "HIJACKER" has my family and plans to make all of them involved in the aviation industry.
Thanks for this info! I grew up in Washington County, MS - the heart of the Mississippi Delta (not to be confused with the Mississippi River Delta which is in southern LA). The Delta is the richest farmland in the whole of the Black Belt - and it's as flat as your dinning room tabletop (assuming you have a dinning room table) The highest point in my little town was the railroad crossing, there were 50' high Indian mounds nearby and the 35' high levee along the river. But the nearest natural hill was 50 miles away. And the topsoil was amazing - all washed down from the Midwest during the spring floods. Maybe you could do a video on this so-called Delta and how it came to be the most fertile part of the Black Belt.
Love your channels.
You may have heard of Alabama's Black Belt, which was named for its rich dark soil, but, well, also had a LOT of slave-worked plantations back in the day, probably also due to that line of long-dead shrimp fertilizing the soil. It was the richest and thus most politically dominant area of Alabama and much of the South, and thus formed the heartland of the pro-slavery movement and eventually the Confederacy. It includes Montgomery, which of course is the state capital and was briefly the capital of the CSA.
Did the "krill line" extend into the Mississippi Delta? I do know that much of the present-day river was actually a bay of the Gulf of Mexico that extended about as far north as southern Illinois (and for what it's worth, bull sharks, which can spend a lot of time in fresh water, have been spotted as far inland as St. Louis).
I'm was born in Greenwood.
The soils that make the Delta
the best cotton ground in the world
we're deposited long after the sea receeded
and are not the same soils with underlying lime
deposits....the Delta is not part of the black belt
as this video states. The soil isn't black and
nearly all of the Delta was forested until late
nineteenth century. Also the maps show southwest
and north central Mississippi as part of the black belt
but they have loess (wind borne deposited) soils, not
chalk derived.
This is probably the best example of historical materialism I've come across 👍
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Sam: "Now I can hear you all saying, Yes, Sam, that does sound crazy,"
Me: I still can't figure out what you said in the beginning
2:36 that felt like a sponsor segway
In New York City there are 3 bands running east to west where the really high skyscrapers can be built but elsewhere the number of floors is limited. Why? Because volcanic action thrust up 3 zones of granite mill8ons of years ago which are a stable foundation and can take any amount of weight.
How a 100 million year old coastline decided me stealing another comment
I respect you for your creative theft.
lol
I’m going to steal this comment
@@dylanwoodcock687 I'm going to steal this comment
1:29 One krill evolved to make a youtube channel cooking things and screaming while cutting up onions long live the empire
0:41 Damn, Sam from Wendover is your twin? Kind of cruel for parents to name their kids the same thing, though.
This is one of the most far-fetched videos ideas I’ve seen you do, and yet it makes perfect sense.
Good video, Sam!
I call false advertising on this one, that wasn't half as interesting at all. That was actually very interesting. I feel cheated ;)
When you start a Half and Interesting video and see a picture of a house you used to live in:
"Wow! What a cool little coincidence."
When that video turns out to be about the effects of slavery and racism in the Deep South:
"Wow... Sadly, this makes complete sense."
good video, sam!!!!!!! :D
Adam is now going to write a similar line about a comment into every subsequent script, is he?
We still need 5 more replies!
@@ojtheaviator1795 I’ll make one of them!
Another reply
5th reply (please do not mark as spam)
(also this comment need 59 likes)
So, fun fact, this is only one reason why this line sways elections. This line also happens to be the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line. Above this line, formerly navigable rivers have significantly more waterfalls, rapids, etc than they do closer to the coast. The coastal areas are extremely flat due to, as you said, being an ocean a long time ago. This means that cities often times sprung up along this line as they were the last stop for ships traveling up river from the coast (Philadelphia, DC, Baltimore, Richmond, Raleigh, Columbia, Augusta, and Columbus, GA are all on this line). And, as we all know, cities tend to vote more blue than rural areas.
When 3 of your fav channels upload new video within an hour
what are the other 2?
Probably real life lore and kurzgesagt
yeah i call that "gonna be late for work"
Kurz?
kurtz
I love your videos and you have answered so many questions i’ve asked better than other people
Love stuff like this. Ancient (and contemporary!) geography is often really important, yet overlooked regarding so many social issues
Good video Sam!
What was the roundabout way of getting to the topic holy hell that was beautiful
The ancient coastline also forms an escarpment, or sudden elevation change. Which means any river running through it is not navigable past this point. So cities are also located at that point because it is the head of navigable water which served as highways for both goods and people.
People who tend to vote more liberal are more concentrated in major cities then in rural areas. This not race is a better explanation for this line.
It was a long chain of loose connection to begin with. But, urban areas have higher population density of minorities and immigrants.
This makes some valid partial claim to the reason. The whole Georgia making it illegal to get drinking water in a several hour voting line also probably speaks volumes about the whole voter suppression thing, which happens in poorer districts, which are also disproportionally minority too. This ties class into it along with race and rural/urban divide.
All still likely connected to the whole "former ocean is now a nutritious soil" thing, creating the former slavery and the eventual urbanization.
The same Texas that declared independence twice to keep slavery? Once when Mexico wanted to end slavery, second when the USA wanted to end slavery. You have nothing to be proud of your state, your state is the epitome of the Confederacy who were literally Nazis.
Seeing Nazaré Tedesco’s meme on the video made me proud of Brazil’s contribution to the world.
Nazaré confusa forever
Me too, even if I am too young to have watched the soap opera
Sam: Mentions comment
Everyone: *Copies comment*
How a 100 million year old cost line kept me awake 6 mins longer
Fascinating! Probably the most interesting HAI I've seen so far, and I've watched almost all of them.
This is the most trivial/fascinating thing I’ve ever learned. Thanks!
And this proves that Sam is going crazy
Finally! Someone is giving this interesting fact the attention that it deserves. Always been interested in this, and now more can be too.
4:20 countries? someone can’t read a script 👀
good video, sam!!!!!!!! :D
Counties*
Check caption
@@asifurrahman5014 The subtitles say “counties”, yes, but Sam clearly said “countries”.
Subtitles aren’t necessarily always accurate!
4:20 is a better timestamp
i think I've watched so many weird videos and read odd articles to the pint where I've heard this one at least 2 years ago.
anyway good video, sam!!!!!!! :D
Sam: *mentions Macon, Georgia*
Vinegar Legates: *pride*
Why I season my video and not my food
new rll and hai videos right in time for my lunch break? i must be dreaming..
thank u so much ur one of my favorite educational youtuber
Grammar lesson y’all: Choosing A vs. An before a word is based on the sound made, not if the letter is a vowel or not. One of the times where if it doesn’t sound right, it isn’t.
I had to scroll way too far to find this comment
Exactly. Grammar rules are ALL for spoken language, not written language. Written languages simply express a preexisting spoken language, thus the rules do as well.
I was taken aback when I read the title as "How a 100 Million year old Cocaine decides US Elections"
it certainly would
Awesome insights man. Very interesting
This was the most Half as Interesting video. keep it up
Christopher Columbus slander is so rampant these days.
He wasn't a slave trader. He didn't like the idea of slavery
Africans were sold by Africans, not kidnapped..
This video has some errors.
@@conradmcdougall3629 Some were sold, some were kidnapped. It's a complex issue.
Great video as usual!
The best youtube videos are always like a slightly more punny episode of Connections. :)
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
I love how you took a two sentence long tumblr post and stretched it into a 6 minute long video
So I've seen a few ads for morning brew and went back to this video to make sure you got credit. Keep the amazing content coming Nebula is next!
Macon, Georgia? Adam Ragusea Intensifies
One of your best ones yet.
well that was a rollercoaster
I love how it just makes sense
And the OTHER reason Macon, Georgia is where it is (as well as Columbia, South Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, Trenton, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and an insignificant little burg called Washington, DC) is the boundary between coastal sediments and harder continental rocks (called the Fall Line) formed rapids on the local rivers and those formed the upper limit of water navigation. Geology's cool.
I've been krillpilled after watching this
Ngl I find it sad that the comments are almost entirely recycled jokes and memes instead of anything addressing the content of the video.
Good video, Sam!!!!!!! :D
(And Editor)
I think the fall line has something to do with this too. The fall line is in roughly the same area and many important cities are located on this line. Cities tend to be blue, hence adding to this blue strip affect.
I'm black and from Alabama.. This is blowing my mind 🤪
My condolences for living in Alabama...
May God have mercy
@Ekm _38 My condolences for having a broken understanding on the American South.
@@johnfahoum7494 You Must be fun at parties...
@@ekn_38 yeah same to u
How a 200 million year old continent decides US elections
Wow!! Who would have know! Great video!
man. this vid was a ride
another very good video Sam!! :D
Im not first, but im pretty early. Im happy enough with that.
YOU CAN BE INDIFFERENT AND LET FUTILE THOUGHTS PASS LIKE TIME ^.^
how are you early if the video is already uploaded ? :p
In order for you to be early, you need to be here before the video is posted
And I'm half as early as you, I think
this reply will have at least one like
I'm not early at all but the arrival time of other viewers is irrelevant to my enjoyment of this video
This isn't half as interesting. This is full as interesting. This is actually very cool!!
You deserve a mental gymnastics gold medal for elaborate joke setup.
"Senselessly Underestimating Carbonate Krill in National General elections" ?! Sometimes I wonder if you have ideas like this and build an episode around it, just so you can include this out-of-left-field, run on joke. Maybe you can write a paper on dad jokes? I'd buy it to help my game.
good video, Sam :D
To be fair. Even if share cropping had not been a thing the former slaves probobly would not have moved very far. Simpily because people tend to stay in one spot and mix with the surrounding area very slowly. Even slower if they see that area as particularly safe or are forced to stay there.
Great video Sam!
*very* good video sam!!!! :D
You know Hai sounds abit like that guy Wendover productions
thank you for acknowledging the existence of the Faroe Islands.
Superbe vidéo, Sam!
How the death of Archduke Ferdinand led to Anime - Election edition.
I'd watch that. Lulz.
Good video Sam :D
Thanks for mentioning st Brendan the navigator
Fascinating, Sam!
Its fine, once the tide comes back in, things will be fixed
People migrating from red southern states due to rising sea level.
The black belt: Look who come back crawling in front of us.
@@MrJuanmarin99 the water or the people?
Listen guys, if we keep talking about climate change and trying to stop it from happening, we're never gonna get rid of Florida.
@@johnladuke6475 Just let them handle covid. Would be faster and without damaging the environment.
@@johnladuke6475 fair point
We got the Brick Video..
What do we want else?
A video about Laces?
I want that !
great video, Sam!!!
How are you whipping up amazing videos this frequently?! Are you a company?
Great stuff.
Fun Fact, the US border determines which people are allowed to vote in the country, inside of it people can vote but outside people can’t
Well, no. You're allowed to vote if you're outside of the US. You can register from Canada, but you just have to vote in person IIRC.
Except if you are in a US colony, like Puerto Rico
good video sam!!! :)))
Lol that "an" in the title threw me for a loop.
2:36 I thought he was about to turn to an ad for Brilliant 😂
Wow, fab stuff!
Morning Brew is awesome, but this video is insanely good!
Nitpick: He showed the whole region voting Republican before the Voting Rights Act in 1964, but that was only one election. In previous elections, it either voted for the Third Party Segregationist candidate or the Democratic candidate.
Sounds like once again information is being used to push a false narrative... how disingenuous.
the video: "Macon, Georgia"
me: *grabs white wine*
Impressive. I'm sensing a jump in quality of content. I don't know why, but maybe this video was a bit more than half as interesting