At least the narrowness of Chile has geographic reasons. If you lived in long Connecticut then people an hour drive away would be in another state while people multiple days' drive a away would be in the same state.
Connecticut would gladly ally itself with Chile to realize their mutual manifest destiny of longness in exchange for joint custody of Crescent City, California.
Having driven through Connecticut once by mistake for about five minutes before turning back while on holiday, I too demand that Long Connecticut be revived! Everyone in the US should be able to drive into Connecticut by mistake!
@@StevenLubick We have more people living in our state than yours. I'm not saying that your opinion is invalid, just that connecticut would win a fight with nevada and restore the connecticut empire no holds barred.
I grew up in Weathersfield Township, in Trumbull County, Ohio...not far from Western Reserve High School. Our whole corner of Ohio is full of Connecticut names that remind us of our time as the CT Western Reserve.
@@arthas640When a states claim to fame is the number of people willing to leave the Earth, the doesn't exactly speak as fondly of said state as one may first think. :p
@@KitsuneRogue I mean, we say that, but one of the big things Connecticut is known for is that Hartford has more corporate headquarters per capita than people.
I'm so glad you have finally covered this important issue. As a Connecticut citizen I strongly believe our rightful territory and length returned to us.
Thank you, Mr. Rackham, for treating our majestic state with the proper respect she deserves Jokes, aside, seeing the history of Connecticut being covered outside of grade school is absolutely wild and I’m so happy this video exists
Early British colonial claims will always be hilarious. Long Georgia supposedly stretched all the way to Los Angeles (and Slightly-Shorter Georgia went to the Mississippi)
Something interesting is because of how anti-slavery the Western Reserve region was as the result of Connecticut's former influence, the three oldest sons of the abolitionist John Brown, John Jr, Jason, and Owen, together with other participants in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, were all living in Ashtabula County outside Cleveland. Not to mention Governor William Denison refused to honor Virginia's request for Owen's arrest and extradition! And something else the region has in common with Connecticut: Clambake! After the Civil War, railroads began carrying fresh Atlantic seafood on ice from New York through Pennsylvania, Ohio and on to Chicago, which led to it becoming popular around Cleveland! Cleveland's Public Square was actually designed when it was part of Connecticut! Moses Cleaveland oversaw the New England-style design of the plan for what would become the modern downtown area, centered on Public Square, before returning to CT, never again to visit Ohio. Moses Cleaveland once served in the Connecticut militia as a brigadier general during the American Revolution, and he was a shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company!
As a Clevelander…I did know this! I often feel like we feel like an east coast city, formed of Connecticut …Columbus midwestern…Cincinnati southern. Cleveland was known as the Western Reserve (of Connecticut). Case Western Reserve University, for example.
I lived in Cleveland for a while Edgewater neighborhood if you know that part of the city as real Cleveland citizen is always bother me when people in Parma or Westlake and say they lived in Cleveland I lived two blocks from RTA station but suburban Cuyahoga county always claimed our city, always bother me how bout you? Anyway hard to believe that could have be a crusty New England state lol.
0:34 , Just imagine it: Cleveland, CT...Chicago, CT...Des Moines, CT....Omaha, CT...Salt Lake City, CT.... and all of it connecticuted by Interstate 80!!!!!
Oh yeah I heard about the yankee panemite war. The Iroquois didn’t really reneg on the deal it was some different tribe that was living there and didn’t recognize the deal made between the colonists and Iroquois
Love that none of my Pennsylvania History classes from grade school ever mentioned Long Connecticut or any of the several wars. Mostly they just gave the impression that William Penn had a big ol' forest that he just kind of strolled around and thought "this is nice"
My home state of Rhode Island actually won most of it's border disputes otherwise Connecticut would actually reach Narragansett Bay and so would Massachusetts. We'd have about have as much land.
So Connecticut's name finally makes sense to me. It made a huge westward connection that was cut (just like the 'on' from said word). To further add to confusion they decided on the 'Arkansas' level of illogical pronunciation.
This is mentioned in Connecticut schools but it’s a footnote in colonial history and is usually referred to as a sea to sea grant. It’s a blink and you miss it kind of thing especially since post revolutionary war era is not really cover in any school in the United States anyway.
Never knew my home city was originally part of long Connecticut! In my home city of Warren there used to be a school called Warren Western Reserve and I didn’t know what that meant!
I'm always uneasy about borders that never align with natural boundaries like rivers or mountains. One day I'd love to see some alternate version of the US states were the lines were drawn with those obstacles taken into account. Like maybe states with some big river running through them would just be split in two with the river in the centre, that sort of thing 😊
The whole reason why is because most those areas weren’t mapped out very well, so the colonizing powers tended to use geometric lines to settle borders. You can identify areas where accurate maps were common based on the amount of geography borders vs geometric borders. For example, the Indian subcontinent mostly follows geographical landmarks. There are other factors as well such as the terrain lacking landmarks like desserts.
Cities are usually built spanning the river, so using a river as a border leads to one city being arbitrarily divided into two states, like what happened to Kansas City. Connecticut itself is a state that makes geographic sense: it covers the lower Connecticut river valley region, with the capitol right in the middle spanning the river, and most of the state was historically economically tied to the river. It would make more sense to become Tall Connecticut and annex western Massachusetts' part of the river valley than it would to use the river as a border.
It's the federal goverments plan to make you forget and submit. Do not forget! Rise up Connecticut! Rise up for your Right! Rise up for.... LONG CONNECTICUT!!!
"The matter can only be settled by blood." "Sir for the last time this is a Wendy's and I just want to know if you want the Classic or Spicy Chicken Combo."
I was born and spent the first thirty years of my life in Connecticut. And even I don't know what the correct word for a Connecticut resident is. So then, I moved to Massachusetts. Good luck even guessing what the term for one of our residents is. 😂
It would be a welcome change as the shortest amount of states you need to traverse by going perfectly westward -avoiding Canada & Mexico- seems to be at least 7… way to much (perfectly on 36.5° latitude).
Virginia in a 1609 and 1611 grants gave us almost all the US as well as parts of Canada. And in 1783 we claimed territory to the Mississippi River and north past Wisconsin.
Long Connecticut...ended by Maryland complaining that it couldn't expand, so no one else could...and then the cause was taken up by Pennsylvania for the Nation's Capital to move.
It appears that the northern border of Long Connecticut is now represented in the border between Wisconsin and Illinois along wit the border between Michigan and Indiana.
Huh - so that's why the 13 original states are represented by stripes on the flag. There's just supposed to be 13 stretched all the way across the continent. Weird that they don't teach that in school.
Earth is connecticut Mars is connecticut The solar system is connecticut The Milky Way galaxy is connecticut Reality itself is connecticut You cannot escape connecticut
As a Chilean-Connecticuter I feel like long Connecticut is my true home
At least the narrowness of Chile has geographic reasons. If you lived in long Connecticut then people an hour drive away would be in another state while people multiple days' drive a away would be in the same state.
@@JWQweqOPDHsounds like how many Texans and Alaskans would describe their state.
Connecticut would gladly ally itself with Chile to realize their mutual manifest destiny of longness in exchange for joint custody of Crescent City, California.
They would overlap in Oregon.
@@MirzaAhmed89 "Oregon"? I think you mean West Connecticut.
Having driven through Connecticut once by mistake for about five minutes before turning back while on holiday, I too demand that Long Connecticut be revived! Everyone in the US should be able to drive into Connecticut by mistake!
Mistaken entry into Connecticut, just like the founding fathers wanted!
Everyone must pay the Connecticut toll if they want to cross to the other side!
@@JackRackambut ct doesn't have tolls
@@strider04 The toll is going into Connecticut
@@bazookab768 no thank you
As someone from Connecticut, I demand a revival of the Connecticut empire!
As a fellow Connecticuck (the proper demonym), I'd upvote you, but you're at 69 likes. My hands are tied.
No from Nevada. 😁😁🤣🤣
@@StevenLubick We have more people living in our state than yours. I'm not saying that your opinion is invalid, just that connecticut would win a fight with nevada and restore the connecticut empire no holds barred.
I agree
@@StevenLubick You Nevadaites forget that we here in Connecticut have a submarine shipyard. See how long you can survive our naval blockade.
As a Connecticut citizen, I want our rightful longness back.
Rest assure, my brother, we will reclaim our rightful longness. First, we Must take back the notch!!!
You want Cleveland, Ohio? 😮
as a fellow Connecticuter I'll fight by your side brother
You WILL get what is LONGFULLY yours!
Why those borders are completely untenable. You'd be conquered faster than lothringia and back to a small compact and defensible locale
I grew up in Weathersfield Township, in Trumbull County, Ohio...not far from Western Reserve High School. Our whole corner of Ohio is full of Connecticut names that remind us of our time as the CT Western Reserve.
I grew up in Trumbull CT and live in Weathersfield CT now 😂
As a life time Connecticut citizen, I can confirm that long Connecticut has been the most interesting thing to happen since
Since? Since what? Sliced bread? Thick Rhode Island? Eggplant emoji? Don't leave me hanging, man!
Since what? British raids on New Haven, Fairfield, and Norwalk?
Better than Rhode Island. Wth do they do and why do they exist?
Since what? Silk City? Don't leave us hanging man!
@@hamarbiljungskile8953since then lmao
Long Connecticut may have died, but it gave its life to form a new dream: Ohio.
Hey, I never said all dreams were good.
Inb4 Connecticut gets annexed by Ohio
@@avrowolfOhio does have the advantage in astronauts AND corn
@@arthas640When a states claim to fame is the number of people willing to leave the Earth, the doesn't exactly speak as fondly of said state as one may first think. :p
@@KitsuneRogue I mean, we say that, but one of the big things Connecticut is known for is that Hartford has more corporate headquarters per capita than people.
@@arthas640 Although, we apparently gave the world Suzanne Collins and Christopher Lloyd
I love how you used like half a dozen ways to describe people from Connecticut
I'm so glad you have finally covered this important issue. As a Connecticut citizen I strongly believe our rightful territory and length returned to us.
May you ever be lengthened brother.
Thank you, Mr. Rackham, for treating our majestic state with the proper respect she deserves
Jokes, aside, seeing the history of Connecticut being covered outside of grade school is absolutely wild and I’m so happy this video exists
Man the sheer amount of tax revenue there could be today if Long Connecticut survived 😢
Early British colonial claims will always be hilarious. Long Georgia supposedly stretched all the way to Los Angeles (and Slightly-Shorter Georgia went to the Mississippi)
Something interesting is because of how anti-slavery the Western Reserve region was as the result of Connecticut's former influence, the three oldest sons of the abolitionist John Brown, John Jr, Jason, and Owen, together with other participants in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, were all living in Ashtabula County outside Cleveland. Not to mention Governor William Denison refused to honor Virginia's request for Owen's arrest and extradition!
And something else the region has in common with Connecticut: Clambake! After the Civil War, railroads began carrying fresh Atlantic seafood on ice from New York through Pennsylvania, Ohio and on to Chicago, which led to it becoming popular around Cleveland! Cleveland's Public Square was actually designed when it was part of Connecticut! Moses Cleaveland oversaw the New England-style design of the plan for what would become the modern downtown area, centered on Public Square, before returning to CT, never again to visit Ohio. Moses Cleaveland once served in the Connecticut militia as a brigadier general during the American Revolution, and he was a shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company!
Please do more on the various claims. This is one of those early American oddities that really barely gets a paragraph in most books.
As a Clevelander…I did know this! I often feel like we feel like an east coast city, formed of Connecticut …Columbus midwestern…Cincinnati southern. Cleveland was known as the Western Reserve (of Connecticut). Case Western Reserve University, for example.
We are far too polite to be an east coast city
I lived in Cleveland for a while Edgewater neighborhood if you know that part of the city as real Cleveland citizen is always bother me when people in Parma or Westlake and say they lived in Cleveland I lived two blocks from RTA station but suburban Cuyahoga county always claimed our city, always bother me how bout you? Anyway hard to believe that could have be a crusty New England state lol.
@@joeyspears2759 There's an RTA bus station in Parma. Used to take the bus that way to go to a quilt store.
What a hearthbreaking tale! Justice For Long Connecticut! ⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️
As a Connecticandy I can confirm, we have NO idea what to call ourselves.
I read somewhere that Connecticut is called the Nutmeg state.
@@StevenLubick Sometimes we are called "Nutmegers" just because our official demonym is so boring, and still doesn't sound right "Connecticuter"
@@StevenLubick Based on our proud history of traveling Connecticut merchants scamming the rest of the country with fake nutmeg.
@@AReservoirDogIt isn’t even an issue of length, it just does not roll off the tongue easy
I call us Connies
The fact that the people from the seventeenth century are animated wielding Mosins tickles me more than it should.
Wait those were mosin nagats?
yes@@goldenfiberwheat238
Truly ahead of their time
It’s sad that as a resident of Connecticut, that I had to learn the history of my state by myself and not with others in school.
0:34 , Just imagine it: Cleveland, CT...Chicago, CT...Des Moines, CT....Omaha, CT...Salt Lake City, CT.... and all of it connecticuted by Interstate 80!!!!!
Imagine the zip codes for that state 😂
Can we have North Iowa, and South Iowa?
@@johngalt97 Yes, but only if they're called South Minnesota and North Missouri.
Oh yeah I heard about the yankee panemite war. The Iroquois didn’t really reneg on the deal it was some different tribe that was living there and didn’t recognize the deal made between the colonists and Iroquois
Ha, so the Iroquois sold someone else's land and then ran away with the profits.
@@swtrooper42 most likely something they picked up from the colonial government constantly using the same trick
Hi. Citizen of Connecticut here. Something something bring back long Connecticut :)
Love that none of my Pennsylvania History classes from grade school ever mentioned Long Connecticut or any of the several wars. Mostly they just gave the impression that William Penn had a big ol' forest that he just kind of strolled around and thought "this is nice"
Its pretty odd that Pennsylvania seems to consistently save the US from existential crises.
Pennsylvania is the Keystone State for a reason. The early US would not have survived without us.
That's why Philadelphia was our nation's capital for a while 😂
My home state of Rhode Island actually won most of it's border disputes otherwise Connecticut would actually reach Narragansett Bay and so would Massachusetts. We'd have about have as much land.
I love how many different ways he referred to "people from Connecticut"
The most common term isn't something that can be repeated on a monetized video.
@@felonyx5123what we can’t even say Connecticunt anymore? (Chugs beer) I thought this was America
@@greenmountainhistory7335 We can. The comments are free, we're not getting paid for this shit anyway.
As a person from Connecticut living in Connecticut GIVE US BACK OUR LAND FOR THE EMPIRE OF CONNECTICUT!!!!!!
as a Connecticut citizen this is about the only time I have ever , and I mean ever seen history content on the state. how did i not know about this?
I had no idea this was even a thing as one time. Nice video Jack.
Petition to restore Connecticut to its rightful borders
TRUE BORDERS
No
Virginia under 1620 borders: immediately annexes most of the United States
First settle your border with us in Rhode Island, there's still a few bits in dispute.
No thanks. It's already a horrible state with high taxes and pointless government regulations. Extending it 3,000 miles would be a disaster.
If long Connecticut takes Chicago with it I’d give my support.
Long Connecticut will rise again!!
Finally someone talks about the best thing that never was, I will never forget what was sacrificed to make Ohio
So Connecticut's name finally makes sense to me. It made a huge westward connection that was cut (just like the 'on' from said word).
To further add to confusion they decided on the 'Arkansas' level of illogical pronunciation.
Ik it's a joke, but it just means 'big tidal river' one of the native local languages ;)
all true sons of connecticut shoudl rise up and reclaim was theirs by right, LONG LIVE TO LONG CONNECTICUT
This is mentioned in Connecticut schools but it’s a footnote in colonial history and is usually referred to as a sea to sea grant. It’s a blink and you miss it kind of thing especially since post revolutionary war era is not really cover in any school in the United States anyway.
You should do more videos on little state battles like The Toledo War and the Honey War and that time I yelled at a Hoosier in Danville
Which Danville?
Never knew my home city was originally part of long Connecticut! In my home city of Warren there used to be a school called Warren Western Reserve and I didn’t know what that meant!
The actions of Johnathan Trumbull is everything after independence
I saw this on an old map one time and I wondered and I could never find out more
I'm always uneasy about borders that never align with natural boundaries like rivers or mountains. One day I'd love to see some alternate version of the US states were the lines were drawn with those obstacles taken into account. Like maybe states with some big river running through them would just be split in two with the river in the centre, that sort of thing 😊
The whole reason why is because most those areas weren’t mapped out very well, so the colonizing powers tended to use geometric lines to settle borders.
You can identify areas where accurate maps were common based on the amount of geography borders vs geometric borders. For example, the Indian subcontinent mostly follows geographical landmarks. There are other factors as well such as the terrain lacking landmarks like desserts.
Why though? So there'd be more conflicts over river rights? 😂😂
Cities are usually built spanning the river, so using a river as a border leads to one city being arbitrarily divided into two states, like what happened to Kansas City. Connecticut itself is a state that makes geographic sense: it covers the lower Connecticut river valley region, with the capitol right in the middle spanning the river, and most of the state was historically economically tied to the river. It would make more sense to become Tall Connecticut and annex western Massachusetts' part of the river valley than it would to use the river as a border.
Heart breaking, a modern tragedy
I knew the story but this presentation is the best I have seen
I live in Connecticut and I have never heard of this! It's interesting!
Amazing piece of history I'd never heard of!
I believe the proper term for “people from Connecticut” is “Connecticutie.”
@@snickersso5496I'm there with you. I have always said that and I was born and raised in Bridgeport, CT.
I’ve lived in Connecticut my whole life and i’m ashamed I was never told any of thing in school.
It's the federal goverments plan to make you forget and submit. Do not forget! Rise up Connecticut! Rise up for your Right! Rise up for.... LONG CONNECTICUT!!!
The establishment and Pennsylvania try to your people down, nice and docile. Uncle sam prefers you like that
Really? It came up in my middle school history class when we started colonial history.
We certainly learn it in "The Land" (BTW, thanks for the land!)
Huh? I only lived in Connecticut for six years as an adult, and I knew of all this. I thought it was common knowledge.
"The matter can only be settled by blood."
"Sir for the last time this is a Wendy's and I just want to know if you want the Classic or Spicy Chicken Combo."
As a South African, I demand that we get our Long Connecticut back!
I was born and spent the first thirty years of my life in Connecticut. And even I don't know what the correct word for a Connecticut resident is.
So then, I moved to Massachusetts. Good luck even guessing what the term for one of our residents is. 😂
I live in Massachusetts too, only thing I can think of is masshole lol
As someone from Connecticut, same. I just focus on reclaiming Nutmegger
This is like the Brazil video when all of Brazilian RUclips hoped into the comments. Except it's Connecticut RUclips. Which is apparently a thing.
I know right? It's a beautiful thing, you never know which community is going to end up being surprisingly vocal
Long Conneticut:
Connects the Oceans
Cuts through the US
It would be a welcome change as the shortest amount of states you need to traverse by going perfectly westward -avoiding Canada & Mexico- seems to be at least 7… way to much (perfectly on 36.5° latitude).
As a New Yorker even I demand the return of long Connecticut. What right have we to stand in the way of a dream so beautiful??
They never taught me about this when I lived in Connecticut.
Wow, this Connecticur truly connects and cuts
I miss the days us nutmeggers snuggled and sold crap that passed off as nutmeg. Well at least we got Lake Compounce and Greer’s chicken.
As a citizen of Connecitcut, this is a certified moment.
I love how the tone is the same from the end of Byzantine empire video
As a Utahn unlawfully deprived of Long Connecticut, I demand that Ogden, Utah be annexed back into our great intercontinental state.
Connecticut knows how to build wide
The world is Connecticut 💪
It’s called Connecticut because it connects from sea to shining sea.
Therapist, "Long Connecticut isn't real. Long Connecticut can't hurt you."
This video apparently, ^^^
Fun fact: that's how Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, got part of its name.
Mens heart swells when he thinks of Long Connecticut.
'And if your heart doesn't swell with Long Connecticut Pride, try Enzyte. The once-daily Tablet for Natural Connecticut enhancement.'
Imagine high-speed rail cutting right through the country through this one state. The economic boons of spanning coast to coast!
Oh that's why there is a secound c in the name. It's silent because they never made it to the secound sea.
Long chile: "Finally a worthy opponent, our fight will be legendary
There was once a dream that was Long Connecticut. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile
Of all the different versions you used, I think I like Connecta Kittens best.
I appreciate the ever-changing Connecticut demonyms.
Virginia in a 1609 and 1611 grants gave us almost all the US as well as parts of Canada. And in 1783 we claimed territory to the Mississippi River and north past Wisconsin.
Long Connecticut...ended by Maryland complaining that it couldn't expand, so no one else could...and then the cause was taken up by Pennsylvania for the Nation's Capital to move.
As a resident of Connecticut, I am I tears
Longsachusetts, that being Minnesota is my favorite pre modern American jurisdiction claim
Finally the Real facts!
I remember learning in school that Los Angeles was once apart of the state of Georgia. Back when Georgia extended to the West coast
We must bring i it back
As a Michigander, you can't take our territory, but you can have Ohio's. Just leave Toledo to us.
This is a ct citizen! I feel like this vids comments are just Connecticut natives conversing
You always make My day man! Please do Francisco franco 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
Motion seconded!
Surely it's wide Connecticut
This is the alternative history I want to see!!
And that's why clambakes are part of Cleveland culture.
Long furby: * exists *
Connecticut: hold my beer
It appears that the northern border of Long Connecticut is now represented in the border between Wisconsin and Illinois along wit the border between Michigan and Indiana.
HELL YEAH, as a Nutmegger, I have been DYING for someone to cover our righteous lands
I was hoping you would talk about the governor of Connecticut at the time Oliver wolcott only because I’m his descendent and I want to hear his name
Huh - so that's why the 13 original states are represented by stripes on the flag. There's just supposed to be 13 stretched all the way across the continent. Weird that they don't teach that in school.
Jacks back!
I've been advocating for years for this, give back chicago
The Indiana territory had land on the upper peninsula of Michigan.
I dream of a Long Connecticut! Frank Pepe’s an Dunkin from sea to shining sea!
First we retake the notch, then our rightful transcontinental lands!
Is that Great Notch, currently in NJ?
@@goodmaroI think he means the dirty Massachusett notch penetrating our glorious state
Petition to Have Long Connecticut
Hail to New England!!! We are number one!!! 🌲🌲🌲
Do you have anything on Maryland? It's such a weird shape.
Earth is connecticut
Mars is connecticut
The solar system is connecticut
The Milky Way galaxy is connecticut
Reality itself is connecticut
You cannot escape connecticut
6:36- Is that Jackson Hinckle??
That was way more depressing than I expected.