Who are the People of New England?
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2020
- Who are the people of New England? and what even is the definitions for this region exactly? Today we'll be going over one of America's oldest colonial regions with a history of immigration tying it to nearly every single area of Europe, developing their own unique culture shared among these 6 states.
New England has not only received a large number of immigrants over the centuries, but also impacted the rest of the United States and the rest of the Anglosphere in many major cultural and demographic ways, similar to the region of Appalachia, which is also often glossed over in the modern day. Thanks for watching!
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I’m a New Englander with ancestry going back to the Mayflower, and I’m proud of this distinct region of ours.
I'm from Alabama and my great grandmother told me that we had an ancestor on the Mayflower . 🇬🇧🇺🇸
willy jones I’ll kick your fucking ass
@@Wonderkid44 I am the manager of food world in Sylacauga Alabama . I work from 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. come by any time 🤭 . . .
What about tom brandy?
Whats the name of the song in the begening and end of the video?
2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the first English Pilgrims arriving in Massachusetts, who landed in 1620.
Are they commemorating it?
Platonic Forms I hope they do mark this anniversary. However, knowing the times we live in, I doubt it.
@@cherylwilliams667 Sorry you hate the times you live in. Plimoth will have more 400th celebrations than probably anybody wants.
@DOE John I mean the world is tired of a Chosen Few behind their needless walls while colonizing Life and playing the victim about it.
My family. Brewsters. British Aryan blondes.
I'm an Abenaki from Vermont. Nice to see someone recognize us.
I'm a new Englander. My family has been here since the 1600s. My dad's family is Scottish and came in the 1700s. I'm mainly English and Scottish with a little German from my grandfather who came to Massachusetts from Pennsylvania.
Cool! I press like to ur comment, proud to be English man! So do you want to come back to British control of the US?
I am descended from New Englanders, most of them coming over in the 1600's. Had my DNA done, 89% English, 11% Irish/Scottish. Life has taken my family far from New England, though. It's one part of the country I've never been able to visit.
@@gothmamasylvia462 A basic dna test like myancestry or 23andme wont tell in numbers where your ancestors are from. You need to use gedmatch calculators and population matches to pinpoint that.
@@buraksimsek7264 Well, she didn't claim that test shows she's from New England, just that she has English & Irish/Scots ancestry.
Viva los godos es decir los Iberos. Es decir viva España
Those puritans would be spinning in their graves if they knew that new england was majority catholic now,particularly irish.
New England doesn't exist anymore.
They should have stayed home lol.
Tim Salter I meant the puritans should have stayed home if they didn’t want to eventually mix with the Irish and everything else that came afterwards. Lol
@@timsalter5505 well if the English colonisers had stayed at home as you say there would be no United States now.Their descendents are the ones who built up the colonies and then started a war with the home country to become independent .Washington,Adams ,Franklin and all the rest,their ancestors weren't French,Spanish or native.There would be no Boston or any of the towns and cities in the first 13 colonies/states.The puritans were the drivers of that,and we didnt want them in England,we had plenty of fundamentalist puritans already, who would go on to help start the englsih civil war.
Good. Fuck em. Same assholes that shacked up with Cromwell. Pilgrims were alright because they were Jacobite Disenters but fuck the Puritans
I'm from Rotherhithe in London, so you're welcome Americans, we gave you the Mayflower.... 😜 fan fact: A pub called the mayflower stands where the boat was actually built!
Nice
As someone who has spent most of my life living in Boston, MA or in a small town along the border with Rhode Island those are the two states that most quickly spring to mind when I think of New England. However, I had lived in New Hampshire once upon a time and have always made frequent visits to relatives in Maine. My ex was from Connecticut. Regretfully, I’ve only been to Vermont twice, and neither trip was long enough to form an opinion about much more than the beauty of the scenery. As an Archaeologist I often find myself traveling to other states or even out of the country for work. People ask me if I miss home on particularly long seasons. I always do. Of course I mostly miss my own little home back on the Massachusetts coast, but the farther away I am I find myself just missing New England as a whole. Our states differ and our people seem to bicker over which state has the proudest history or whose people are the worst drivers and so on and so forth. But overall I’ve found we have a lot more in common than we usually think. We all cherish our independence. How many of our Southern and Western cousins have described us as more reserved than they are? Some would call us rude, but anyone who has lived up here for long enough knows that New Englanders are often kind, culturally curious, and very much invested in their communities even if we’re less talkative with strangers. Our region has always been industrious and self sufficient without ever turning away from the rest of the country. For me, New England is America. At least, it’s the slice of America that has always been home. Nowhere else can top it for me. And though I love my Massachusetts, if someone told me I had to leave and then offered me prime real estate in Texas or California, I’d much sooner find myself a home in the woods of Maine or on the streets of Rhode Island.
I’ve been living in Canada for the last 4 years almost. I miss Massachusetts terribly. I grew up on the North Shore spent every summer on the Vineyard. I’m moving back soon.
Amen . Boston born and bred here . We only get "rude" when someone passes a certain level of disrespect . We would pull start someones head , standing up for a random strangers Mom ... good moral fiber around here 😁
What town was it near Rhode Island
Completely agree, New England just has its own feel to it, and ultimately the states kind of blend together because often people who live in one state in the region will migrate/frequent the other states which just builds upon that shared identity. I was born here and I'll probably die here because its hard to see myself settling down anywhere else.
I grew up in Woonsocket RI that borders Blackstone, Bellingham and Wrentham MA. To me I find little difference between the 2 states since my mom was from Blackstone and we visited my grandmother there often. Both areas are predominantly French Canadian settlers so that may be why. Very interesting video. Lived in RI my whole life and couldn't picture living anywhere else....love the 4 seasons especially the fall with the brisk air and leaves changing colors! 🍂🍁
I spent the first fourty years of my life in Massachusetts. I am the grandson of Greek immigrants that came over in 1914. None of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower. I am absolutely a New Englander with a Greek twist. I have been living in Texas for thirteen years, but I absolutely miss New England.
Viva New England
Que viva yo que soy pinché guey
Amamarla
Name stealing bastards. Only joking love you son
New England succession when?
Whats the name of the song in the begening and end of the video?
I'm a New Englander descendant here in Brazil with an Irish, English, and Portuguese background! Although unfortunately I'm not able to get American citizenship anymore, I am still part of American history! It was good to get to know the history a little better. Thanks
That’s sad :( I hope you’re able to get citizenship one day
@@shadow6543 only if I marry someone. Hahaha
I love this. I am a naturally born New Englander and I absolutely love it here. I was born in NH, raised between ME and NH. I currently live in Farmington, NH. Fun historical fact: The militia in Farmington, then known as the Puddle dock, back during the Revolutionary War stopped the Red Coats on Main Hill. This single event stopped the British from taking over the town of Wolfeboro, which was a major trade hub. If they had taken Wolfeboro, the War would have most likely been won by the British.
I'm proud to be a New Englander and even more proud to be a Vermonter. For many generations my ancestors, since after the Revolutionary War, lived in one town here. Until my grandparents and parents decided to move to the more developed central area of Vermont.
My dream in life is simple, to retake my ancestral land and to live a simple homesteading life.
Green Mountain Brownie I hope you can do that. I remember the Norman Rockwell Vermont and New England and hope that some of it is still in existence.
Whats the name of the song in the begening and end of the video?
hey man, i'm a active vermont nationalist with ties to 2VR. contact me if you're interested in actually getting out and advocating for this
@@kigi5855 I love the South of New England!.
Except for places like Hartford and Bridgeport Connecticut for it's crime.
I don't understand how new england can be so white and so liberal quite a dichotomy is it not?
I was born in Massachusetts and my family all comes from there and NH. Ethnically, I'm a typical northern New Englander - French Canadian, English and Irish. I'm mostly French Canadian, though. Most French Canadians immigrated here in the 1880-1920 period, to my knowledge - including my own ancestors.
Thank you, Mason, for mentioning the large Portuguese presence (whether of continental/Azorean/Madeiran origin or of Brazilian or Cape Verdean origin)! What wasn't mentioned was that places like Fall River and New Bedford (between Rhode Island and Cape Cod) are easily half-Portuguese, perhaps slightly more.
Oh heck ya, the fall river and new bedford area has one of, if not the, biggest population density of portuguese and Hispanics in the northeastern. Being raised with the culture of my family, (50% Azorian, 25%brazilian) is amazing, and i could never picture moving away from new England without missing the food and salt water (pronounced wa-tah) air
There are enough Portuguese people in New Bedford that there are direct flights to the Azores from Logan! I will have to take advantage of that someday.
New Bedford!!! 🎉
I'm from Fall River, almost every person I went to school with spoke Portuguese ag home or had someone speaking it at home. Portuguese flags everywhere, Portuguese shops, Portuguese as one of three languages to learn and way way more
England and Portugal have a weird bond, Portugal as a nation has alot to thank England for and then we do have the worlds oldest alliance
Who are the people of Lousiana
Who are the acadian people
Who are the people of florida
1. People who say they are "creyaw" but don't know what that means
2.idk
3. Hilarious degenerates
@James Venner A VERY busy, underrated genius. Alabama had Forrest Gump. Florida Man deservesa trilogy
There isn't a video that could ever explain "Who are the people of Florida"
@@petergeramin7195 creole *
The acadian people are French/native american people who settled in modern day Nova Scotia,New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, they were genocided( is that a word?) By the british after they won the land from france in a war acadian culture still exists today
Thanks for this. My ancestors came to New England in 1640, just 40 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. We've lived in the area for 380 years so it's nice to get this recognition.
The area has become quite diverse but politically, I think that it is quite unique. In rural New England in particular. There are so many small towns, and they are very independent. Each has it's own school district police and fire department and so on. People are very civically involved. They do a lot of volunteer work, and they belong to local clubs a lot. They frequently attended town hall meetings and get involved more in the decisions that are made.
It's also the only region where I can find good fried sea food for some reason. They make good fish and chips, chowder, and clam strips. I can't find this food anywhere else.
...20 years. The Mayflower landed in 1620 ;)
Have had excellent fried seafood on Long Island, too, which is just across the Sound from CT.
My Dad's side of the family landed on Block Island in 1640.
I'm from Maine, my Dad's Salvadoran and majority Native, with healthy doses of Black, Arab and European. My Grandfather is from New York, and is German, Irish and Italian-American. My Grandmother is almost 100% English, with a bit of Scottish and Irish.
Maybe a video on the People of the Great Lakes? Really like your content.
Whats the name of the song in the begening and end of the video?
Germans?
Vermont was disputed between New York and New Hampshire. This caused a problem because in those days frontier land was often claimed, subdivided into lots and sold to settlers by land companies incorporated by the state, and much of the land in Vermont was claimed twice, by New York-based land companies and by New Hampshire-based land companies. This caused a problem when a settler from New England moved to the land he bought from the New-Hampshire-based land company and found a colonist from New York already there, claiming the land. In the end, the mess was settled by gun fights and Vermont declared independence from both New Hampshire and New York, before being admitted to the USA as a state. I think they were the first "new" state, i.e. the first state that was not originally an English colony. The name was created by combining the French words "verd" which means green and "Mont" which means Mount (as in a mountain). The part of the Appalachians that form the back bone of Vermont are the Green Mountains. The next chain to the east are the White Mountains in New Hampshire and Maine. The original settlers of Vermont were a blend of New Yorkers and New Englanders, and the New York accent seems to have predominated, which is why the linguistic boundary between the Northern and New England accents runs along the Connecticut River and not Lake Champlain
Masaman you are a gentleman and a scholar! Your content is educational, interesting and so nicely served. Thank you for what you do, keep it up please.
I love this type of American History, I live in Providence and work in Boston (1st generation) and I’m always telling myself that I’m amongst some of the oldest generational Americans that are in this country. Its actually kind of cool
Thats a hell of a commute
You drive or take the train?
Nate etaN I drive but 75% of it is home office and 25% is field work
@@nateetan8911 it's not as bad as ppl think. My hometown is 15 minutes west of Boston and we wre only 30 minutes from R.I
Same, I'm proud to be aNew Englander, we have some of the oldest American history.
To sum up Providence, RI let me provide an experience that happened to me a month ago, my boss and I was walking in a crosswalk and a driver blew past a red light. My boss yelled at the car in Italian, the driver yelled back at him in Portuguese, someone on the sidewalk started yelling in Spanish and I ranted back in German. If you are in the capital it is more likely than not someone knows another language, and even when something like this does happen you will see them at the store the next day and wish their family and mother are doing well.
Very good way to sum up rhode isla d. All you missed was somebody selling fentanyl to somebody else.
providence is its own planet i stg craziest city on the east coast
very much a Providence thing though, not a Boston thing though. Care to debate which of the two cities is the The capital of New England? ;) (as someone from Massachusetts, I go with Boston, for a number of reasons, but I've had some good times in Providence)
Providence and Worcester both have great food scenes for cities of that size.
@the elefant. I’d say it’s Boston. The greater Boston area is huge and its leading role in our region’s economic and cultural development is more or less unrivaled. If you ask most Americans to name a place in New England they’ll probably only be able to come up with Boston
Great video, but you pronounced some things wrong. New Hampshire is pronounced "New Hamp-sher" and Barnstable is "Barn-stubble." Also the island of "Duke" is had its name changed, and is now called Martha's Vineyard
I commented on this, too.
As soon as he pronounced it wrong I was thinking yall ain't from around here are ya? Lol
As for "Duke," it's Dukes County, of course.
Masaman, can you do "Who are the people of Wisconsin?" . It is a state with an incredible amount of people of German descent. I think around 50% of the state's people claim German heritage
Pennsylvania has been Germanic also, from the early 1700s. Would be nice to see "Who are the people of Pennsylvania?" also.
I kinda did a video on the upper Midwest, a region I dubbed "Scandimerica" due to it's high concentration of Scandinavian descendants. Be sure to check it out!
@@Masaman when u will do a video about Bantus languages being hebrew?
Thanks Masaman
Masaman Did you do a video about the South?
I’m from Ohio and am a descendant of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins, through his daughter Constance. Stephen was the only passenger who had previous New World experience as he had lived in Jamestown many years prior to arriving in Plymouth. He and his family were also the only ones who didn’t come to America for strictly religious reasons, which was one of the reasons why he wasn’t so popular with the other settlers. The branch I descend from later on emigrated to Virginia and gradually made their way into Eastern Kentucky and then Southwestern Ohio.
I am too I guess we're family 😂
@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 Sup cuz
Greetings from old England .
Cheers from New England!
Great video. I'm from New Bedford, MA myself and a descendant from about 8 of the Mayflower families. I've enjoyed many of your videos, keep up the good work!
As someone from Massachusetts this is by far my favorite video of yours.
@James Venner me too but as someone that loves to piss people off its very easy with them
@James Venner yeah them and all the karens and wine aunts
@James Venner if anything, it's not liberal enough
Emily Curewitz yuck
Emily Curewitz LoL how about no
An interesting video would be to look specifically at Maine. Maine has maintained a very distinct culture even within New England that is linguistically, economically, and socially unique. There's certainly modern tensions that continue to arise as Maine becomes increasingly diverse, like the rest of New England.
Being from Maine but having lived many years in Mass and elsewhere, that tension you mention is obvious. The remnant of the original old pioneer culture is still dominant In most of Maine. Many locals like myself descend from the original early colonial settler families and native occupants. There is a mindset that comes from growing up around elders who navigated the hard weather and constant plain hard work of farming, logging and fishing, the only occupations for a very large, sparsely populated region. Most people did all those things. Hunting, gardening and gathering still get passed on to most young people, especially in rural areas, and Maine is almost all rural. The Depression never really ended in parts of Maine, and poverty is common. Many move away to find work. There's a reason Maine exports so many of its young people, and why a higher percentage of Maine high school grads join the military than any other state. It may be as people like to say "how life should be" but it isn't easy living.
Newcomers don't have the background or environmental awareness that comes with that history and never will, so much of what is communicated goes right over their heads. They notice but they don't understand. They don't interact like everyone else. Any time I go back, I instantly notice the distinction between locals, newcomers, and late-comers who have started to adapt. It's that obvious.
Maine wasn’t “technically” a part of Massachusetts, it was Massachusetts just like the Upper Peninsula is part of Michigan. Maine was created as a Free State to balance out the new Slave State of Missouri being admitted in 1820. Hence the term “Maine-Missouri Compromise”.
Maine was "technically" annexed by MA. and we still hold it against them to this day.
My family came from the channels islands in 1750 to Boston. So happy you did a video on my home region!
Your descendents are Anglicised Normans then.
Interesting content. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for doing this video, very interesting and well done. I am and still live in Connecticut. My father’s mother was descended from a fellow Reverend of Thomas Hooker which left Massachusetts to settle here in CT. They lived in central CT from that time of 1636. About that time my Grandfather’s ancestors came to New Amsterdam as French Huguenots ( Protestant) . They stayed there until 1910.
At that time my Great Grandfather moved his whole family to New Britain CT. The story goes that besides a booming area one of his 3 sons ( my Grandfather) was in some kind of trouble. My father was born in 1921 , served in WW 2 at a AirForce base outside Liverpool.
He met and married my mother there. When they returned after the war , he purchased a farm in NE CT . That is where I come in.
That part of CT was and still is very rural.
Would say Old New England like for sure.
I can get to my point now…. (sorry) .
I have moved around many parts of CT ,
lived in North Carolina and on Bostons North Shore. I would say that those old New Englanders are getting harder and harder to come across these days. Unless you go to those pockets of small town New England
Nothing wrong with all the new or different groups of people… just the way it goes.
As a New Englander (specifically from Massachusetts) who is a big fan of your channel, I am thrilled that you made a video about us. :)
Hey Masaman, have you ever done a video on the people of New York? That would be real cool. Great video btw!
You teach me so much, thank you.
Gen X here and born an raised in Massachusetts. So many of my friends growing up have one Irish parent and one Italian parent. I bought my first home south west of Boston and there are tons of French Canadian ancestry.
Good vid. I come from a town in Massachusetts called Southbridge, which interestingly has a large Puerto Rican population to the point that a majority of the town is Puerto Rican. None of the surrounding towns even have a sizeable Puerto Rican population, however.
Thanks for the videos they are educational and great ...thanks
Big love from Europe,keep up the good work
Can you do “Who are the people of the Midwest“?
I suppose also including the Great Lakes region, part of which (especially Buffalo/Rochester) is in the western Northeast, and not to mention Western Pennsylvania (e.g. Pittsburgh), which is next to Ohio but doesn't exactly feel Midwestern.
Brewster the founders moved to farm and build there. My family.
@DOE John are we. We still go to church have big families small buisnesses and dont public charge. Plus were pretty attractive symmetrical people. I can see why the hate.
As a midwesterner I'd be happy to see that.
He already did
I can say from experience, never call an Acadian a French Canadian. Acadians have a superiority complex. Meanwhile, they came from the same region of Northern France as your garden-variety French Canadian.
Its a political thing, its unfair to call it a superiority complex. Their ancestors were not alligned with the french crown, they came way earlier then quebecers and they have a unique history seperate from other french Canadians. They love their flag and try their best to keep their culture alive. I dont have acadian ancestry, but i live near Grand Pre and have a lot of respect for their history.
@@Frankaphone420 our ancestors were certainly aligned with the the French crown. Even into the late 20th Acadiens (at least in Louisiana) called themselves French, not Americans.
The reason Acadiens don't like being called French Canadians is because most people would then see them as Quebecois due to Quebecois far out numbering Acadiens. It's not a superiority complex, they just want to reassert their distinction from Quebec.
Merle Langlois that is a very nasty thing to say.
Didn't they come from central coastal France? I thought they were mostly from the Saintonge area.
Great video Mason.
I'm a San Diegan who moved to New Hampshire in 1975 and spent twenty years there. It was love at first sight, a love which has never died, even though life has carried me to other regions. Vermont is right next door to heavan. I loved hking the wilderness trails, skiing the mountains and working in the Boston area. My native Vermonter significant other can no longer stand the winters, so we live on the west coast now. Sure do miss the place.
A nstive New Englander here. The last syllable of ‘New Hampshire” rhymes with “per”, not “pyre”.
like wtf... he butchered a couple nmes... Barnstable he pronounced like Barns-Table
Omgitsjoetime T LOL! I missed that one!
It's interesting to see how Polish some towns in NE are. My grandfather grew up in Dudley, MA. It's a town on the Connecticut border south of Worcester, MA and one end of the town was French Canadian and the other was Polish.
We usedcto swim at Webster Lake in the summer. The Blackstone Valley has a very interesting history. I'd like to go back before I'm too old and do a bicycle tour of the canal route. Industrialization attracted a lit of immigrants and migrants. That's how my ancestors, on both sides, ended up in New England. I am convinced that's how education is so highly valued in New England compared to other parts of the country.
All the towns around New Britain, CT are very Polish, to the extent that people still actively speak it. You had the early 20th century immigration and then another wave after the Soviet Union fell that revitalized it much more recently, so there's Polish language newspapers in retirement homes but also I went to school in the 2000s with bilingual Polish speakers and people who immigrated from Warsaw as children. There's Polish sections in libraries, official town and school district communications in Polish, hopefully the community lasts for a good long while because it's a cool part of the area.
I grew up and lived threw a terrible 20 yrs in Lawrence. Moves back and forth from Lowell and Lawrence as a butcher and now I'm settled in Amesbury Salisbury coastline. I love it here. Right on the NH line
Nice! I am glad you finally covered the Republic of Vermont and the Iroquois. While I did give you some suggestions the other day, I have a few more I thought of:
1. Yinzer culture of Pittsburgh/West Pennsylvania-one of the most overlooked cultural regions of the USA? (I am originally from Cleveland, Ohio, but moved to Pittsburgh 4 years ago to begin my career in geographic information systems. I'd be curious to see if there are new things I could learn that I didn't know about my new home)
2. Micronations-Who are the residents of the The Vatican? Liechtenstein, San Marino, Monaco, Andorra, eSwatini (Swaziland), Lesotho, etc.? The de facto micronation of the Principality of Seborga would be an interesting thing to mention with this, as well as communities of ethnic migrants to other countries that make up diaspora populations most people have never heard of. Also, the use of Latin in modern day via The Vatican.
3. Use of Sanskrit in the 4 "Sanskrit villages" of India.
4. Nunavut + Inuit/Aleut People
5. Who are the people of the Canadian Archipeligo in general, in addition to the former mentioned above?
6.*Pick some random location in Eurasia you have never heard of and analyze it!
7. Chinese sub-ethnic groups; not groups in China per say (since you already did that one), but ethnic subdivisions of the Chinese themselves. The relationship of Cantonese to Hong Kong's culture, plus a deeper look at Macau.
8. Inhabited islands of the North American Great Lakes
9. Haida Gwaii and the Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada
10. Insular Chile
11. Saint Martin/Sint Maartin-The ethnic representation of the Dutch and French on the islands
12. Who were the very first inhabitants of the Levant region? Did they evolve directly from the Natufian Neolithic archaeological complex (with some other migrants coming in), or was there a migration from another location?
Hey I've watched alot of your videos before. Funny enough I'm actually from New England. Born and raised in Springfield, Mass area.
Most of what you said is true. My father is from the midwest and from his side I am descended from the pilgrims, as well as German settlers from like the 1700s.
My mother is born and raised here and her grandparents are from Italy and her mothers side great grandparents are from Poland.
We do have little communities here not sure if that's how other parts of the country are or not but...
In the town of Ludlow, MA theres a Portuguese speaking community. In Longmeadow, MA theres a Jewish community. The city of Springfield has a large African-American and Puerto Rican community, as well as Italians. We do have Russian, Greek, Armenian, and Polish speaking communities here scattered across the city and towns in the area.
In terms of the French, I haven't seen much, but I know whenever I got to Maine I hear some French but I always assume they are Canadian.
Among the white population, Irish is the clear majority and they retain some culture and whatnot but I think the smaller communities are more vibrant and exclusive.
Don’t forget the Lithuanians of Lawrence and Lowell!
You'll find plenty of Franco-Americans in the Aldenville neighborhood of Chicopee.
Wow! Were the people who migrated from Europe to USA in the 1600s and 1700s rich? Or just middle class? How about now - is New England a rich region? And if yes then why?
Chicopee- was mostly French & Polish.
@@saga2828 As a general rule, very few people who came to the US were "rich". You will find that the people who came from England, by and large, were not from London and the wealthy southeast, but from the midlands and the north. In Ireland you will find that emigrants were disproportionately from the west side and not the east, and from Italy it was the south and not the north. German emigrants, too, were mostly from the Palatinate as opposed to northern Germany. It takes some type of economic, political or environmental pressure to cause people to uproot their lives, cross an ocean and start anew on a different continent. Most Europeans who came to the US were from Ireland, England, Germany and Italy and were escaping wars, famines and dire economic conditions.
Wow, a region I am actually from!
As am I. I'm here in Boston. How about you?
@@Mikefantasia22 I'm from Natick, right next to Boston
i'm in vermont!
I enjoy you work btw thank you it’s very cool
Although I was a flight attendant and have lived in other regions and in Europe and Western Canada for periods of time, my ancestors came here both sides in the great migration of the late 1620's and 1630's. I have hundreds of ancestor's stories in my family tree. Some famous, involved in the Witch Trials, Revolutionary War, Indian Wars, Hung on the Boston Common, and many more. I am a lifelong New Englander growing up 7 miles west of Boston and have lived in Maine since 1976. I absolutely love my heritage and love New England. It is so beautiful with it's four seasons and it's culture and history and architecture. This was a nice video. Thank you.
I was kind of surprised that NE actually had more people of Irish descent than English, and nearly as many people of Italian descent. Birth rates huh!
There are more people of Irish descent in New England than there are in Ireland.
Also worth noting most people have some Irish ancestry, but they’re not pureblooded
I’m from New England and can confirm. A lot of my ancestors came from Ireland in the 19th century. I took the AncestryDNA test and it showed 76% Ireland and Scotland. But that’s just me.
Still is that way. South Boston was almost entirely irish while North Boston was entirely italian. As a Mass Native I am half irish half italian. No surprise.
Mike Fantasia North End* North Boston doesn’t exist
A video on the Occitan-Catalan langauge and people would be great some day
También aquí joder que p
Or on what if Catalan, not Castilian, became the main "Spanish" language and hence you have Sant Francesc instead of San Francisco, Sant Jaume de Xile instead of Santiago de Chile, and so forth.
@@yodorob así que todo América era catalana joder y yo que pensaba que los tripis me los tomé el otro dia
@@visigodonoez5113 joder que pedo carnal soy Mexicano, pero no entiendo a ustedes españoles que hablan mucho idioma raro como Gallego o Valenciano
@@DogeGamer2015 en España se habla el castellano , vasco , gallego , catalán , valenciano, mallorquín , lleunes , astur, bable, montañes
excellent video!
I'm from Eastern Massachusetts. With my family and work around here, I'm probably going to stay here. But I love Vermont, Northern New Hampshire (Southern is kinda just more Massachusetts but in NH), and Maine. I did live in Vermont for a year and it was great.
Hi Mason, I'd really like it if you started posting your content on r/Masastan again.
Thanks :) Soon
@@Masaman
How you know so much about demographic of world.
My family went from Nova Scotia to Vermont and stayed there until the gold rush... I've always wanted to see the land my family called home for most of their time here in the US
Great video. I'm from MA and I've never heard the term Bos/Wash region before. The term I'm more familiar with is the Acela Corridor, deriving from the train line that runs along the Northeast from Boston to D.C.
I appreciate your density of information but I definitely had to play that at 0.75x whereas stuff I know more about I play at 1.5x or 2x.
Even when I was in New York City 20 years ago the cities around there were really right up against each other. Probably gets hard to tell when you leave one city and enter another now.
Trust me. You know when you move from one town to another in Westchester. Those people in Yonkers who claim to live in Bronxville fool no one. They share a zip code, nothing else.
@@markrichards6863 They're wanna be New Yorkers?
5:11 Island of Dukes? You mean Martha's Vinyard, which is most of Dukes County (the county also includes the Elizabeth Islands as well)
Gracias por el video!
My great grandfather owned Mills in Massachusetts. He was a descendant to the Brewster family that came over on the Mayflower. The Mills now are outdated and are either warehouses, or converted apartment complexes.
I really appreciate this video. I've been watching your content for years, and you've been a huge catalyst for me to really interrogate and explore my own ethnicity ("white American" is too broad to be meaningful). Eventually came to the conclusion that I'm a ethnically Yankee (technically I'm a "pie for breakfast Yankee". Google it if you're not sure what I mean.)
I want to thank you for giving me so many of the tools to see who my people are. Also, I wanted to make the case to you (because I think that if anyone in the world cries about this stuff its you) for the nationhood of the Yankee people
We have a distinct and continuous history reaching from the 1600s to the present.
We have a shared ancestral root population in the early colonial english settlers.
We have a distinct and easily recognizable homeland which we have occupied continuously from ethnogenesis to the present.
We have a shared linguistic heritage and speak in set of distinct and identifiable regional dialects. Good job on pronouncing "Vermont" btw. Our contemporary dialect is fully rhotic, but generally pronounces "t" as a very soft unvoiced glottal stop.
We have a distinct material culture thatexpresses itself in all sorts of ways. From our typical timber-framed architecture to our regional cuisine. We have distinct historical settlement patterns like the village on the commons. We even have a distinct form of government in the form of the New England town meeting.
We have recognizable symbols of national identity, most especially the New England pine tree standard and its variants.
We are also very much a living, although struggling, culture. In northern New England we still largely practice our traditional lifeways. and in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont we remain the culturally dominant ethnicity. The opioid crisis has been a body blow, and we are certainly declining demographically, but there is every reason to believe we will continue as a people for the foreseeable future.
Markers of Yankee Ethnicity:
(Obviously there are no hard boundaries to an ethnicity, but these are some of the flags of Yankee identity from my perspective. Most of us fit most of these points most of the time:
1) At least partial descent from founding stock New England colonists. Note: this does not automatically equal racially white. I personally know plenty of non white individuals in my community and family who check as many of these boxes as I do. For the most part these folks dont identify themselves as belonging to a different racial group, and around here the most common expressed identity is "Vermonter" or sometimes "real Vermonter". Nonetheless, we are probably 98% racially white as a group.
2) To be a Yankee is to be a New Englander. This is important. Geography is so crucial to our selective identity that I would go so far as describing us as an ethno-regional group. In my opinion this is at least as salient as the question of ancestry, and absolutely more definitive than religion.
3) Yankees are an anglophone group, full stop. Furthermore, we are more (or at least percieved. ourselves to be more) English in cultural character than other anglo-american ethnic groups.
4) Participation in traditional culture. Contra Dance, hunting, maple sugaring, town meeting, ice fishing, baking (yes we have the best pies and donuts, get over it), winter sports, clam bakes, quilting, typical clothing, living in small villages, etc, etc.
4) Lack of other ethnic identity. if you think of yourself as an Irish American or African American or the like you are probably not a Yankee. If you think of yourself as mostly as a Vermonter or Mainer/Mainiac etc, you probably are.
Sorry this was a long one, but this channel has been so instrumental it helping me explore my heritage, and I wanted to share my passion for my people with you and your viewers. Thank you for doing what you do, and I would love any feedback you or this community provide.
apologies for all the typos. I've got big thumbs and a small phone.
Are you trying to dismiss my people in the Boston area as non-Yankees? What are you, a Republic of Vermont Nationalist? I used to identify myself as Irish American despite having roots in pre-Revolution Massachusetts. I am more likely to call myself a Yankee or New Englander, though. There is prejudice between the southern and northern New England states, and Boston is often resented for dominating the region. Rhode Islanders remember Massachusetts forcing them to join the Union under threat of invasion and annexation, and the people of New Hampshire and points north are sometimes hostile to "Boston Tourists" who may have lived there for two generations. Mason made a good introduction, but the the reality is much more complicated, as one would expect of a social and political entity 400 years of age [the United Kingdom, as such, took shape in the same period].
@@JMM33RanMA Obviously Boston and the rest of southern New England are the historical heartland of Yankeedom. The difference is that Yankees culture is no longer hegemonic in SNE as it is in NNE. There are a ton of Yankees in the SNE states but they represent a smaller proportion of those states' populations as a whole.
I'm not trying to exclude anyone, and Acadian, Boston Irish, Gloucester Portuguese, Lowell Khmer etc are all fine and venerable peoples of New England. They are, however, distinct from Yankees in the sense that I'm using the term. Differences are excellent, but they are differences. Someone who identifies with one of the groups I mentioned or any other is probably the thing they say they are, which is great, just different, to what I am.
Obviously the lines are blurry. Obviously the situation is complicated on the ground. Also, I'm just a dude with an (hopefully reasonably informed) opinion with neither the means nor the desire to police the boundaries of identity, so the stakes are pretty low.
I am patriotic in my feelings about Vermont. If pressed I would probably describe my national identity as Vermonter, so in a cultural sense you could describe me as a Vermont nationalist, I suppose. As I said, though, the State of Vermont *is* the Republic of Vermont in its modern form since there is direct constitutional continuity from the one to the other so it doesn't really make sense, in my view, to be a Republic of Vermont nationalist. Hope that makes sense
@@JMM33RanMA Not trying to be argumentative. The subject is just near as dear and I love to talk about this stuff.
@@hallowmoss1511 It makes sense, however the tenor of your original post seemed exclusivist. Being of a mixed family and a fan of history, I had embraced my Yankee heritage by leaving the Catholic church and adopting the Deist and Unitarian faith of the Adamses and other 18th Century Yankees.
Those illustrious Yankees had rejected the outmoded, inhumane and exclusivist beliefs of the previous Puritan culture. I maintain that the true Yankee heritage is that one, that led to the Unitarian takeover of the government and Harvard University. Modernization and change rather than resistance and decay [read the House of Seven Gables and other works for Yankee Puritan decay].
From Tennyson's King Arthur, "The old order changeth, yielding place to new..." and the course of empire moveth ever to the west.
Most of the early French setters in New England were Huguenots (French Protestants).
Yes that true in the beginning, but the Acadians who also came a bit later would of been mainly Catholic, the one's that retained their French language in the north.
The French from Quebec who migrated from the mid-1800s to early-1900s were almost entirely Catholic.
3:06 as a resident of Barnstable County, my mind got whiplash from the way you pronounced it
this was a tough watch, mostly because of the town pronunciations lmao. In all seriousness, great video, im always grateful when i get to learn new things about the best region on the planet XD
Some pronunciation adjustments since im bored:
2:59 - Your pronunciation of "New Hampshire" is how you would say the British county of the same name, but we pronounce it Hamp-shur (like you're saying hamster wrong)
3:06 - in the New England pronunciation of Barnstable we basically just slur the word, so it sounds like barnst-a-bull
What's even more amazing is how Anglo saxons/ old English come from even a smaller area of Germania.
They've done alright I'd say
And South Jutland.
I’m from Massachusetts. Good job!
A lot came from Lavanham in Suffolk England. Where I am from.
It was a wool town, it made wonderful wool. It has recently reopened using the original tools. After the wool depression most left for New England. We may share ancestry!
Good stuff ty
I hadn't realized how French New England is until i was in northern rural Vermont and saw a very handsome young man in a gas station. His face and physique were to my eye French and he was blond.
@Special Wolf93 Probably because they burned popes in effigy every year called 'Pope Night,' which was later changed to 'Patriot's Day' at George Washington's behest in order for them to direct their anger at King of England and support revolution.
Yup. People up here are very french overall. 70-100 years ago there was a huge social distinction between french and anglo people in Vermont. Today the communities have effectively blended with the rapid decline the importance of religion being a major factor. In my experience its actually the Abenaki who maintain the closest ties to a french identity these days.
Massachusetts has the largest number of people of French Canadian heritage in New England.
well done, born and raised in MA. As of lately and this may be reflective of the colleges, but in mertro boston CHINESE people have increased. This is just an observation along with many many casual conversations. (hopefully we stay corona free, oh yea , we dont have sense enough to close our border) GREAT VIDEO!
I hear you guys really like your IPAs
fair to say , but the real trouble is opiates.....
I live on the South Shore. Quincy has a massive Chinese population.
@@VanirTraditionalist Between Quincy and Brockton the drivers are horrible, as bad or worse than the infamous "Boston Driver." Having lived abroad, I recognize that this is due to people driving as they would in their homeland, not as they're expected to drive here. I am not anti-immigrant for several reasons:
1. I [and the vast majority of non-algonquians] are all immigrants and or descended from immigrants.
2. Our culture and cuisine have benefited immensely from immigrants.
3. Our multi-ethnic culture has stifled religious, racial and ethnic intolerance [though we still have remnants of bigotry that need to be extinguished].
4. Native born drivers, drunks and criminals are as bad or worse than the vast majority of immigrants.
5. Being accustomed to different people, we aren't afraid to leave our houses without a gun. Such fearful and bigoted people usually live elsewhere.
Lived in New Jersey for a decade. MA is bad but New York State drivers are by far the worst.
Excellent video, thanks! As a Vermonter (though not born that way), I absolutely love this region and actually fell in love with it as a child. Particularly northern New England, because the population is markedly lower here. Most of the towns of Vermont have fewer than 50 people per square mile, which for my money is more how folks should live. And I love the statistic regarding VT's irreligiosity, which only serves to illustrate what a ragtag bunch of misfits settled here in the first place. Even now, those who move immigrate here from other states (know to Vermonters as 'flatlanders') often promptly leave because whatever propensities they bring here from other states tends not to fare well. (A favourite bumper sticker I've seen here reads 'Don't Jersey Vermont!') And it's not that Vermonters dislike other people; it's just that they don't want others (neighbours, government, etc.) telling them what to do. As the expression here goes, 'Tell a Vermonter what to do and they'll do nothing. Ask a Vermonter for help and they'll do everything'. We are a stubborn, but neighbourly, lot. Cheers! 🙂
Excellent. Thanks for describing Massachusetts well. Lynn was named after Lynn in UK.
Everyone always forgets or discounts the Scot Canadian wave of immigration to New England.
Three of my great grandparents were born in Nova Scotia and one step great grandparent. My husband and many of my friends are descended from there too.
I have ancestors from Nova Scotia too. My last name is Scottish
My Acestors were Scottish and came to Nova Scotia.... Annnd here I am...lol
I know, I wish the people New England and the Maritimes were closer, maybe we could form New Britain together
I had a mini New England flag as a young boy, living in Syracuse, in 1976.
Great video as always Masaman! Really looking forward to:
Who are the people of NYC?
Who are the people of the Midatlantic?
Well, you’ve already kind of done the South a bunch of times
Who are the people of the Great Lakes/Midwest?
Who are the people of Texas(your home state!)?
Who are the people of the Rockies(my home region)?
Who are the people of the Southwest?
Who are the people of California?
Who are the people of the Pacific Northwest?
Who are the people of Alaska and Hawaii?
Mom and dad are from New England. Mom's side since 2nd or 3rd Mayflower, dad's since the first. Siblings and I are the first ones born outside of the area with 3 of us in FL and one in Utah.
I would like to see something on Acadian Maritimes
He can cover the people of the dawn (Maliseet, Miꞌkmaq, and Passamaquoddy) Acadians, the loyalists, Scottish and later Irish immigration in Halifax and cover the recent refugees in the past decade.
I wish New England and the Maritimes could come together and form New Britain or something
What do you think it would be like as its own Nation Of New Britain compared to the rest of Canada & USA?
I love the idea of New Britain. I think New Brunswick and Nova Scotia have a lot in common with the northern New England states, and they're in a disadvantageous position being separated from English Canada by Quebec and the American border. I think they'd have a larger role to play in "New Britain" than in Canada.
New England is the original America (after Jamestown of course). It's really the only place left in the US where the political and social ideologies remain more or less the same as when settlers arrived. The idea of "Live and let live" truly thrives in New England (and further into the NYC tristate). But it's slowly dwindling away, sadly.
People in New England have a very diverse political base, there are lots of conservatives and lots of liberals living next door to each other all over the northeast, yet for the most part, New Englanders can still appreciate our differences, and so long as you don't interfere with our business, we won't interfere with your business.
So we capture the liberal spirit of personal liberty, freedom of religion, etc very strongly, while maintaining the conservative value of "leave us alone and mind your own business" very strongly. I love every part of New England because even though we share the same overarching values, you will find incredible diversity in the people, businesses, politics, and nearly every aspect of the region from NYC all the way to the border of Canada. This does vary from leaning more liberal in southern new England, and more conservative in northern new England, kinda like florida. The more north you go, the more Republican it gets in general.
There's also the perk that wherever you are in New England, you can drive to the other side in a day of driving. It's a huge area, but small enough that interstate travel for leisure is very doable. I live in Connecticut and I often drive into New York City, Boston, or into lower Vermont/New Hampshire for day trips or weekend getaways. New England also has an excellent rail system, you can ride a train from Manhattan to Boston to Portland (although that would be a really long trip).
I truly think New Hampshire is the quintessential "live and let live" state in the whole country. The state motto is "Live Free or Die" and the people there take that idea VERY seriously. They are not keen on outsiders moving in and trying to change things. They are some of the friendliest people in the nation, and they like their lives the way it's always been up there. So don't move there if you don't like how they live!
Sometimes I really wish New England could be it's own country, because it really feels like it sometimes.
As a New Englander most of my life I experienced two distinct European ethnic groups in the places I lived. I grew up in RI and at least half of all the people I met were of Italian heritage. Later I moved to ME and it was the same except that they were of French/Canadian descent. I’m a Mayflower descendant as are millions of others and also had a great grandmother who was a Narragansett. Depending on where you go, you can find enclaves of most European countries in New England.
Thank you for doing a video on New England! Even though I'm a native Californian, I've always been fascinated by the region and especially its ethnic evolution from a bastion of Yankee Protestants to a melting pot within the melting pot of America. I didn't know about the Portugese being present in New England since the 1600s. Maybe you could do a video on the demographic evolution of California, such as the Californios, the mass migration of Anglos from different regions (Midwesterners in late 19th and early 20th Century, "Okies" during the Depression etc.), and the new immigration post-1965.
The majority of the Portuguese came in the beginning of the 20th century until the 80s
No, the Portuguese weren’t really here in New England in the 1600s. They were in South America, mostly, until much later.
You talk about New England as if it was a colony, and not a current region. New England is a current region with the states of Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, and they have a distinctive culture in the US.
I come from an old Massachusetts family, my ancestry includes about 25% old English stock and 25% Irish Catholic. A lot of people underestimate the link between New England and the Maritimes/Quebec. The rest of my ancestry is Highland Scots from Nova Scotia/PEI and French Canadians.
Culturally, New England is a distinct region. Those of us in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire are more likely to identify as "New Englanders" than with our particular states. If the USA were redrawn today, New England would likely be a single state, minus Fairfield County in Connecticut. However, we benefit from being broken up, since New England has 12 senators instead of 2!
We are a hybrid culture between Maritime Canada and New York, although we have little in common with NYC. There is a love/hate relationship between Boston and the rest of the region, although we all come together to route for the same Boston sports teams.
There are a few pan-New England programs that link us together, like how all 6 states use town-level government instead of county. We also have a program where students can enroll in colleges in the other states for in-state tuition.
I too have ancestors going back to the Mayflower and a very long family history in New England. I love the cultural diversity that I grew up with in CT.
Long live New England!
"Who ahh the people uh new england?"
I’m a New Englander, born in VT and living in NH my whole life (other than college in NC). My parents are from CT.
I grew up Catholic, although I’ve never been very religious in general. I have English, Irish, Scottish, Hungarian, German, Polish, and Native American in me.
I'm in love with the modern world
Massachusetts when it's late at night
And the neon when it's cold outside
I got the radio on, Just like the roadrunner
New England should be a new state.
Also American Cascadia (Washington and Oregon).
I'm from Maine, I'm pretty sure mainers wouldn't want to rejoin Massachusetts.
D I X I E L A N D
I wish, our states we be a lot more relevant as one state, the region of New England is already more relevant than all our states.
It'd be a terrible disadvantage for the New England states to merge into a single state while still part of the US, because it would decrease our representation in Congress from 12 senators to just 2. New England for example has 6 times the representation of New York, despite being similarly sized. What the New England states could do though is form a new non-state political entity to handle matters of mutual interest, such as the tax treatment of workers from New Hampshire and Rhode Island commuting to Boston, or a unified response to Covid. Pursuing different policies is inefficient when everyone is crossing borders all the time anyway.
Mason as a fellow Texan, you have to do a video about the people of the Lone Star State
Why do a video about Texas. You people are always talking about it. What's left to say.
My entire family is from New England; the Worcester, MA and Northeast CT region to be precise. I'm a mix of mainly German, Finnish, Sicilian, and Native American, with a little Irish, English, French, and Polish thrown in. One of my grandfathers is German and Irish/English, while the other was mostly Finnish and I think a little Swedish. One of my Grandmothers is Sicilian and Native American, and the other is a hodgepodge of western European decent - English, French, German, Italian, and Polish, plus quite a bit Native American as well. Sicilian from my mom's side and Finnish from my Dad's side were definitely the most culturally impactful ancestries in my life growing up. But the region I live in is mostly influenced by English, Irish, Italian and French culture.
This is a great video all around! The only thing I have to say is New Hampshire is pronounced "New Hampsha" not "New HampSHire."
There are a lot of interestingly spelled towns around the states in New England that date directly back to the 17th century. It's fun to hear other people say them.
I never realised how huge New England is compared to England
An addition: western NY is in fact an extension of New England. It was settled after the Revolution by veterans looking for farmland with actual soil instead of rocks. My ancestors were in Connecticut for 150 years, then Canandaigua for 200. Absolutely the same culture. Reading Robert Frost, it's the same culture.
Thank you. This was very good.
Do you have a link for the geneology document at 4:21?
My mother’s family is the Shurtleffs - her surname - and they came between 1620-23. Their origins is Eccelsfield, Sheffield England. Their is a “book” written by the earliest Shirtlefs Nd our ancestors in Britain: Shiercliffe, Surliff, Sutcliff, Shirley, and several others - it originally meant “the Southern Cliffs” [Saxon location name]. I grew up in our family’s historic areas: Middleboro, Carver, Plymouth.