Long Connecticut: A True Story
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- Опубликовано: 5 ноя 2023
- Hiya friends. I know we’ve been doing this whole “What happened in between WW2 and the Cold War” thing, and I’m very excited to tell you more about the rocky history of America’s plan to save Europe from economic collapse and the implosion of the British Empire, maybe even how close France was to going communist, but you see, there’s something that’s been living in my brain rent-free for a year now and I’ve just gotta share it with you. It is a dream deferred, a vision of a better world. It’s this. It’s Long Connecticut. It was real, and if you’re wondering where it went, that involves three American civil wars and a long-forgotten 51st state so buckle up!
Music (in order of appearance):
Kevin Macleod - Long Stroll
Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
37 Room Music - Emotional Epic Trailer
Kevin Macleod - Doh De Oh
Kevin Macleod - Hackbeat
Mat Steiner - War of Stars
John Philip Sousa - The Honored Dead
Kevin Macleod - Darkling
Purple Planet - Film Noir Mobster
Orchestrails - Dark Ambient Documentary Cello
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
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.
@@mirzaahmed6589 "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 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
Man the sheer amount of tax revenue there could be today if Long Connecticut survived 😢
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.
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)
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 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
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!
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
What a hearthbreaking tale! Justice For Long Connecticut! ⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️
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.
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.
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
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 😂
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.
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
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 😂
If long Connecticut takes Chicago with it I’d give my support.
all true sons of connecticut shoudl rise up and reclaim was theirs by right, LONG LIVE TO LONG CONNECTICUT
Finally someone talks about the best thing that never was, I will never forget what was sacrificed to make Ohio
Petition to restore Connecticut to its rightful borders
TRUE BORDERS
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.
As a person from Connecticut living in Connecticut GIVE US BACK OUR LAND FOR THE EMPIRE OF CONNECTICUT!!!!!!
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 ;)
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.
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 had no idea this was even a thing as one time. Nice video Jack.
Hi. Citizen of Connecticut here. Something something bring back long Connecticut :)
I live in Connecticut and I have never heard of this! It's interesting!
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 saw this on an old map one time and I wondered and I could never find out more
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?
Amazing piece of history I'd never heard of!
They never taught me about this when I lived in Connecticut.
Heart breaking, a modern tragedy
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
I knew the story but this presentation is the best I have seen
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.
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.
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 South African, I demand that we get our Long Connecticut back!
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.
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.
Long chile: "Finally a worthy opponent, our fight will be legendary
Fun fact: that's how Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, got part of its name.
I love how the tone is the same from the end of Byzantine empire video
Of all the different versions you used, I think I like Connecta Kittens best.
This is the alternative history I want to see!!
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??
The world is Connecticut 💪
As a citizen of Connecitcut, this is a certified moment.
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
Therapist, "Long Connecticut isn't real. Long Connecticut can't hurt you."
This video apparently, ^^^
As a Utahn unlawfully deprived of Long Connecticut, I demand that Ogden, Utah be annexed back into our great intercontinental state.
Imagine high-speed rail cutting right through the country through this one state. The economic boons of spanning coast to coast!
Jacks back!
A bit unrelated to the topic of the video, but I'd love to see the Life and Times of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, that man got up to some wild shenanigans, from working at a woodmill in Sweden and disappearing without a trace for years, to fighting as a mercenary for the Dutch colonial army on Sumatra, to selling weapons to the Ethiopians to fight off the Italians. All that after he left a legacy as one of the most influencial and genius poets of the French language and his love affair with another poet, Paul Verlaine
As a proud Connecticuter we must take back our land for a dream of a long state
You always make My day man! Please do Francisco franco 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤
Motion seconded!
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.
Finally the Real facts!
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
Connecticut knows how to build wide
I've been advocating for years for this, give back chicago
That made me sad. :
Longsachusetts, that being Minnesota is my favorite pre modern American jurisdiction claim
I remember learning in school that Los Angeles was once apart of the state of Georgia. Back when Georgia extended to the West coast
To hyped the beginning up way too hard than my cruddy state deserves 😂
As a resident of Connecticut, I am I tears
That was way more depressing than I expected.
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
I didn’t know Connecticut was long. Interesting.
Instant clasic
HELL YEAH, as a Nutmegger, I have been DYING for someone to cover our righteous lands
Petition to Have Long Connecticut
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
Long furby: * exists *
Connecticut: hold my beer
"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."
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.
As a Connecticuttan, we at least need the notch and the Western Reserve back. The day will come, long Connecticut is our rightful clay.
We have no idea what to call ourselves, but that is an ever so slightly more distant dream than long Connecticut.
Do you have anything on Maryland? It's such a weird shape.
Oh that's why there is a secound c in the name. It's silent because they never made it to the secound sea.
Hail to New England!!! We are number one!!! 🌲🌲🌲
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
I dream of a Long Connecticut! Frank Pepe’s an Dunkin from sea to shining sea!
The single most important (and only) thing to happen in the history of Connecticut
You should cover how Ohio and Michigan had a skirmish over Toledo.
We must bring i it back
The Indiana territory had land on the upper peninsula of Michigan.
As a CT native, we first have to take back the notch from Massachusetts. Then....we go west!
But what about Massivechusetts???
Coast to coast just north of Long Connecticut!
But what if, Massivechusetts, hear me out. What if, we were to expand to the West Coast, as allies?
This is a ct citizen! I feel like this vids comments are just Connecticut natives conversing
Zebulon is the wildest name, strong Raygun-Gothic Vibe; what makes it even better is that its Biblical (one of Jacob's sons, one of the Tribes of Israel)