From Kentucky I am very impressed with your knowledge of the US and Geography of our country. I know you have watched thousands of hours of videos and studied hard, however I really hope you can find time in your life to come to the US and see and experience all you know about.
Something to know about Virginia. It used to be illegal to gamble in the state. In Colonial beach they have a restaurant on the shore. A part of the restaurant is over the water. There are slot machines in the part that's over the water because that part of the building is technically in Maryland where it is legal to gamble.
The New Madrid Fault earthquake was felt and damaged buildings as far away as Washington DC and created Reelfoot Lake in Northwest Tennessee after the Mississippi River flowed backwards to fill un an area where the earth collapsed.
35:18 The U.P. has some of the most pure copper deposits in the world. If you go to the Smithsonian natural history museums in D.C., and go to the room with the Hope Diamond, there will be a massive naturally formed sheet of copper hanging on the wall.
Learning history in this way is so much more fun than a boring classroom. They are interesting, and I would likely not have found them if you didn't have an interest and react to them. Thank you! 🙂
Luka (?), interesting point here about the NYC borough of Queens: it has the title of “Little Earth” because of its extreme language diversity--#1 in the world at 138 in 109 sq. mi. On the subject of the MO section, New Madrid = MAD-rid. The distance between Key West and the westernmost point of the FL panhandle is more than 820 mi./1319 km. In the CA section, the 4th. climatic area was called the "STEP-ee'; I think he was trying to say 'steppe', which is pronounced 'step'. WW1 was from 1917-1921, but it was stated in the VA section that after that war, Alexandria County did something, and 1945 was flashed on the screen.(?!) The TX/NM "oops' resulted in NM losing 942 sq. mi./1517 sq. km. Texarkana is pronounced tex-are-CAN-uh, rather than -CON-uh, since 3 states are involved in the name: TEXas, ARKansas, and LouisiANA. The 4 Corners monument is on the scenically amazing Navajo Reservation, which has land in AZ and NM. Re. the Bering Land Bridge, in this case, the body of water is a 'strait', not a 'straight'. Actually, AK could have 2 more on this list. First, it's the only state with its capital inaccessible by road. Juneau is blocked to the west by the ocean, and to the east by the very rugged Coast Mtns. Second is the town of Hyder, in the Panhandle, or Southeast, which is otherwise served by the State Ferry System, but being east of the Coast Mtns., it’s cut off, making a flight, or 441mi./710km. drive through Canada on the Cassiar, Alaska and Klondike Hwys. necessary to get to Skagway--the nearest other town in AK by road; its mail is flown in from Ketchikan.
Navajo Reservationextend into Utah south of the San Juan river as well. But also completes encloses the Hopi REservation, and is a huge area of land: "The Navajo reservation covers more land than Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware combined. "
The Panhandle of Florida voted to join Alabama, but at the time it had little econonmic value and the Alabama Legislature refused to allocate the funds to pay Florida for the territory.
one thing the narrator failed to address is why there is a line that runs from the Florida border area stratight across to a similar line in Louisians. Basically the coastl areas of Miss/Sla are remants of old West Florida, all originally Spanish land. That is why Tallahassee was founded where it is.. almost equidistant between Key West and the MIssissippi River. When the 3 western chunks got hacked off, they left the capitol in Tallahassee anyway.
Mark Twain was wrong. The US Army Corps of Engineers has diverted the Mississippi River down in Louisiana for decades to stop it from changing course. If they didn't, the river would no longer flow down to New Orleans. It's crazy what human beings can do with enough time and money.
We didn't have those issues with Mexico because we went to war with them over Texas and won. They ceded the land and we agreed to make the boundary a waterway in many spots. It actually worked out for once. But we still have border issues with Mexico. We took 400 meters of their land recently to expand the no man's land between the two countries.
please provide cited proof of this claim, as Ive never heard a single bit of this.. and I usually try to stay well informed. YOu state it as though they had no ability to resist the grab, and yet is it possible they agreed to it in some way, being probably uninhabitable desert? In any case, provide proof of this wild claim, or retract it.
7:38 I live in the Missouri Bootheel and I cringed at his pronunciation of New Madrid. It's New Mad-rid. Not New Ma-drid. 30:40 The problem with just seceding one state over to another is that the state governments could be quite different from the two states. Not only that but the amount of paperwork would be absolutely ridiculous. I remember when I moved from Illinois to Missouri and I had to change pretty much everything. My taxes were different, I had to get new license's plates, credit cards, voter information, driver's license. It's a mess.
No, the San Andreas fault is just as dangerous as people talk about. It’s just that it’s only that dangerous once every hundred years or so. But there are frequent, less dangerous earthquakes. The earthquakes not along the west coast tend to be big and dangerous, they don’t get the little ones. The west coast is along the “pacific rim of fire. One issue with earthquakes in other parts of the US is that they don’t build their infrastructure to withstand earthquakes like is done on the west coast.
If you recall, Washington DC had a quake in 2011 that caused some damage to the National Cathedral and a few other structures. It was a Richter 5.8 which probably wouldn’t have damaged much on the west coast. In San Francisco, a lot of the most important public buildings including City Hall, major museums and the Emergency Response Center are now on base isolators (like giant shock absorbers underneath the buildings that absorb earth movement).
@@toomanyopinions8353 You did and I was supporting/amplifying your comment. Although I would mention that in the Pacific Northwest on both sides of the border they are increasingly taking earthquake preparation into account as well.
@@BTinSF that’s definitely good! But the Pacific Northwest is still on the rim of fire, which is why I specifically wrote “west coast” instead of “California”. Bc I’ve been in the PNW when an earthquake happened!
The reason Mexico does not have the exclave issue that Canada and the USA do may be because of the relative lack of water in Northern Mexico . If there was no water, most of these exclaves would be linked to the territory to which they officially belong. Here in Kentucky, we are taught that the Ky Bend exists due to the Mississippi River changing course. The narrator is mistaken when he says that state borders shift as rivers move. The borders are set in stone from the time the state is established, barring additional court judgements or legislation. Kentucky has several exclave strips of land on the northern side of the Ohio because of river movement over time, such as near Evansville Indiana.
The US / Mexico border is mostly straightforward now, partly because most of the current border was decided well after the region was mapped and surveyed in some detail, and partly because the power balance (economically, politically, and militarily) between the two countries is very asymmetric, leading to most of the disputes being decided in favor of the US in one way or another. (The Gadsden Purchase is an example of the dispute being resolved economically: the US just straight up paid the Mexican government money to sign over the territory that we wanted.) Historically, there were border disputes along the Texas / Mexico border, but those disputes were resolved by the Mexican American War, which placed Mexico in one of those negotiating positions where you basically have to agree to whatever you have to agree to in order to end the war, before you lose any *more* territory. Canada and America are much closer to being peers, and have been amicable neighbors for longer, so more of the disputes were resolved via negotiation, and some portions of the border were decided before detailed maps existed of the areas in question.
Texan here, there actually is some very tiny exclaves on the Rio Grand that both US and Mexico claim. There is an interesting documentary on the cartels using this land to spring board drugs and human trafficking through this point. Texas however officially claimed it using military force and have put up bunkers and watch posts on it and cleared the island of trees so that it cannot be used as a shelter for the cartels.
one needs to look at the artificial channels and course correction of the Rio Grande from the area near Las Cruces NM to well past El Paso. Some major adjustments/embankments wer made to keep that course form changing
The first place every British RUclipsr seems to want to go is Texas and to this American who has lived in Maryland, North Carolina, Florida and California, and who has visited all but about 2 states, this mystifies me. Texas mostly has unimpressive scenery (one exception being the Big Bend region), awful climate and politics that few Britons would find compatible. It seems like they all want to try some Texas BBQ, see a rodeo and wear a cowboy hat. And then what? Texas is among the last states where I'd want to live. It's only real attraction for me being the lack of an income tax (but Florida, which I like a lot better and lived in for about 10 years, doesn't have one either). Yeah, it has cheap housing but so does almost any state in the midwest and even neighbors Alabama and Mississippi which also have Gulf Coast beaches. For many Americans the latest hot state seems to be Tennessee and I could live in East Tennessee around Chattanooga.
Lol “eat bbq, go to a rodeo, wear a cowboy hat, and then what?” is the most California thing I’ve ever heard. That’s like saying yeah ok I can go to California, see the Hollywood sign, the Golden Gate Bridge, some big trees, and then what? Maybe what people find so appealing about Texas is that it isn’t filled with smug, insufferable douchebags who think they know everything like California (although they’re doing their best to import them all…see, I can generalize too). Oh, and for what it’s worth, I’ve lived many of the same places you have in addition to others, including both Dallas and SF. California is an amazing state and is unparalleled in terms of natural beauty, but I would live in TX over CA every day and not think twice, and I didn’t grow up in either so no dog in the fight.
I don’t understand why we haven’t corrected this and either sold or just annexed it to our northern neighbor. There’s no real advantage to the US to keep, and this is all based on bad mapping and human error to begin with. This would be a constant inconvenience to Canadian border control as well as those living in the US zone. Seems ridiculous and unnecessary with no upside for US
The USA defeating Mexico in the Mexican-American War, with all of Mexico possibly to be merged with the USA, allowed the USA to define the border. What the USA didn't want was left to be the country of Mexico.
Except that it didn't resolve all the issues, hence the GADSDEN PURCHASE: "The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War."
No, Texas isnt like the US on steroids 😊 Every state is a as unique as the stars in the sky. States have their own cultures, communities, origins, topography. There's just no way to compare them and no two of them are alike. My guess is you guys think that because of the size of the state, but consider this: EVERYBODY in the world knows about New York, but its pales in size to Texas. Hope that helps!
From Kentucky I am very impressed with your knowledge of the US and Geography of our country. I know you have watched thousands of hours of videos and studied hard, however I really hope you can find time in your life to come to the US and see and experience all you know about.
He's been reacting to US things for years now. He better have a grasp on US Geography, lol.
@@jayclean5653he said that in the comment bro I think he knows that lol
Mark twain: the mississippi will always have its own way
Army Corp of Engineers: Hold my beer
Something to know about Virginia. It used to be illegal to gamble in the state. In Colonial beach they have a restaurant on the shore. A part of the restaurant is over the water. There are slot machines in the part that's over the water because that part of the building is technically in Maryland where it is legal to gamble.
The New Madrid Fault earthquake was felt and damaged buildings as far away as Washington DC and created Reelfoot Lake in Northwest Tennessee after the Mississippi River flowed backwards to fill un an area where the earth collapsed.
35:18 The U.P. has some of the most pure copper deposits in the world. If you go to the Smithsonian natural history museums in D.C., and go to the room with the Hope Diamond, there will be a massive naturally formed sheet of copper hanging on the wall.
Learning history in this way is so much more fun than a boring classroom. They are interesting, and I would likely not have found them if you didn't have an interest and react to them. Thank you! 🙂
The first picture of "Crater Lake" was actually of a Crater Lake in Idaho.
Luka (?), interesting point here about the NYC borough of Queens: it has the title of “Little Earth” because of its extreme language diversity--#1 in the world at 138 in 109 sq. mi.
On the subject of the MO section, New Madrid = MAD-rid.
The distance between Key West and the westernmost point of the FL panhandle is more than 820 mi./1319 km.
In the CA section, the 4th. climatic area was called the "STEP-ee'; I think he was trying to say 'steppe', which is pronounced 'step'.
WW1 was from 1917-1921, but it was stated in the VA section that after that war, Alexandria County did something, and 1945 was flashed on the screen.(?!)
The TX/NM "oops' resulted in NM losing 942 sq. mi./1517 sq. km.
Texarkana is pronounced tex-are-CAN-uh, rather than -CON-uh, since 3 states are involved in the name: TEXas, ARKansas, and LouisiANA.
The 4 Corners monument is on the scenically amazing Navajo Reservation, which has land in AZ and NM.
Re. the Bering Land Bridge, in this case, the body of water is a 'strait', not a 'straight'.
Actually, AK could have 2 more on this list. First, it's the only state with its capital inaccessible by road. Juneau is blocked to the west by the ocean, and to the east by the very rugged Coast Mtns. Second is the town of Hyder, in the Panhandle, or Southeast, which is otherwise served by the State Ferry System, but being east of the Coast Mtns., it’s cut off, making a flight, or 441mi./710km. drive through Canada on the Cassiar, Alaska and Klondike Hwys. necessary to get to Skagway--the nearest other town in AK by road; its mail is flown in from Ketchikan.
Navajo Reservationextend into Utah south of the San Juan river as well. But also completes encloses the Hopi REservation, and is a huge area of land:
"The Navajo reservation covers more land than Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware combined. "
Tiptonville. Sounds like a great place.
I live in Omaha, and you have to drive through Iowa (Carter Lake) to get from downtown Omaha to the airport lol
The Panhandle of Florida voted to join Alabama, but at the time it had little econonmic value and the Alabama Legislature refused to allocate the funds to pay Florida for the territory.
one thing the narrator failed to address is why there is a line that runs from the Florida border area stratight across to a similar line in Louisians. Basically the coastl areas of Miss/Sla are remants of old West Florida, all originally Spanish land. That is why Tallahassee was founded where it is.. almost equidistant between Key West and the MIssissippi River. When the 3 western chunks got hacked off, they left the capitol in Tallahassee anyway.
Mark Twain was wrong. The US Army Corps of Engineers has diverted the Mississippi River down in Louisiana for decades to stop it from changing course. If they didn't, the river would no longer flow down to New Orleans. It's crazy what human beings can do with enough time and money.
We didn't have those issues with Mexico because we went to war with them over Texas and won. They ceded the land and we agreed to make the boundary a waterway in many spots. It actually worked out for once. But we still have border issues with Mexico. We took 400 meters of their land recently to expand the no man's land between the two countries.
please provide cited proof of this claim, as Ive never heard a single bit of this.. and I usually try to stay well informed. YOu state it as though they had no ability to resist the grab, and yet is it possible they agreed to it in some way, being probably uninhabitable desert?
In any case, provide proof of this wild claim, or retract it.
@@ZakhadWOW no?
@@americansmark if you refuse to provide evidence for claims, then don't expect to be taken seriously
7:38 I live in the Missouri Bootheel and I cringed at his pronunciation of New Madrid. It's New Mad-rid. Not New Ma-drid.
30:40 The problem with just seceding one state over to another is that the state governments could be quite different from the two states. Not only that but the amount of paperwork would be absolutely ridiculous. I remember when I moved from Illinois to Missouri and I had to change pretty much everything. My taxes were different, I had to get new license's plates, credit cards, voter information, driver's license. It's a mess.
There in California. It's not just close. You can see Mount Whitney from Death Valley and you can see Death Valley from Mount Whitney.
4:55 Ironically, Vermont is the only New England state that doesn’t even touch the Atlantic lol
Eh Vermont is just a state away from Maine. You had the right idea, just got your far northeast states mixed up.
He is saying .
New Madrid wrong. It is Mad- rid.
Thank you, thank you. Glad someone else noticed this.
I never would have thought to pronounce it that way. Thanks for the information.
No, the San Andreas fault is just as dangerous as people talk about. It’s just that it’s only that dangerous once every hundred years or so. But there are frequent, less dangerous earthquakes. The earthquakes not along the west coast tend to be big and dangerous, they don’t get the little ones. The west coast is along the “pacific rim of fire. One issue with earthquakes in other parts of the US is that they don’t build their infrastructure to withstand earthquakes like is done on the west coast.
If you recall, Washington DC had a quake in 2011 that caused some damage to the National Cathedral and a few other structures. It was a Richter 5.8 which probably wouldn’t have damaged much on the west coast. In San Francisco, a lot of the most important public buildings including City Hall, major museums and the Emergency Response Center are now on base isolators (like giant shock absorbers underneath the buildings that absorb earth movement).
@@BTinSF yes, I mentioned specifically that infrastructure isn’t built for earthquakes in the rest of the country.
@@toomanyopinions8353 You did and I was supporting/amplifying your comment. Although I would mention that in the Pacific Northwest on both sides of the border they are increasingly taking earthquake preparation into account as well.
@@BTinSF that’s definitely good! But the Pacific Northwest is still on the rim of fire, which is why I specifically wrote “west coast” instead of “California”. Bc I’ve been in the PNW when an earthquake happened!
The reason Mexico does not have the exclave issue that Canada and the USA do may be because of the relative lack of water in Northern Mexico . If there was no water, most of these exclaves would be linked to the territory to which they officially belong.
Here in Kentucky, we are taught that the Ky Bend exists due to the Mississippi River changing course. The narrator is mistaken when he says that state borders shift as rivers move. The borders are set in stone from the time the state is established, barring additional court judgements or legislation. Kentucky has several exclave strips of land on the northern side of the Ohio because of river movement over time, such as near Evansville Indiana.
Cool fact the narrator missed. Bristol Tennessee is closer to Canada than Memphis Tennessee in the same state.
The US / Mexico border is mostly straightforward now, partly because most of the current border was decided well after the region was mapped and surveyed in some detail, and partly because the power balance (economically, politically, and militarily) between the two countries is very asymmetric, leading to most of the disputes being decided in favor of the US in one way or another. (The Gadsden Purchase is an example of the dispute being resolved economically: the US just straight up paid the Mexican government money to sign over the territory that we wanted.) Historically, there were border disputes along the Texas / Mexico border, but those disputes were resolved by the Mexican American War, which placed Mexico in one of those negotiating positions where you basically have to agree to whatever you have to agree to in order to end the war, before you lose any *more* territory. Canada and America are much closer to being peers, and have been amicable neighbors for longer, so more of the disputes were resolved via negotiation, and some portions of the border were decided before detailed maps existed of the areas in question.
I’m American and I learned a lot from this lol
Vermont! Lmao
15:22 It DIDN'T show a different lake
That first picture was of Crater Lake, Idaho.
Toledo is still Michigans.
5:23 "To the county of the same name" Nope, wrong. There is no Brookly county, it's Kings county
yes he missed that detail Manhattan is New York County, and Staten Island is RIchmond COunty.
Texan here, there actually is some very tiny exclaves on the Rio Grand that both US and Mexico claim. There is an interesting documentary on the cartels using this land to spring board drugs and human trafficking through this point. Texas however officially claimed it using military force and have put up bunkers and watch posts on it and cleared the island of trees so that it cannot be used as a shelter for the cartels.
one needs to look at the artificial channels and course correction of the Rio Grande from the area near Las Cruces NM to well past El Paso. Some major adjustments/embankments wer made to keep that course form changing
Hey you were close!
The first place every British RUclipsr seems to want to go is Texas and to this American who has lived in Maryland, North Carolina, Florida and California, and who has visited all but about 2 states, this mystifies me. Texas mostly has unimpressive scenery (one exception being the Big Bend region), awful climate and politics that few Britons would find compatible. It seems like they all want to try some Texas BBQ, see a rodeo and wear a cowboy hat. And then what? Texas is among the last states where I'd want to live. It's only real attraction for me being the lack of an income tax (but Florida, which I like a lot better and lived in for about 10 years, doesn't have one either). Yeah, it has cheap housing but so does almost any state in the midwest and even neighbors Alabama and Mississippi which also have Gulf Coast beaches. For many Americans the latest hot state seems to be Tennessee and I could live in East Tennessee around Chattanooga.
Lol “eat bbq, go to a rodeo, wear a cowboy hat, and then what?” is the most California thing I’ve ever heard. That’s like saying yeah ok I can go to California, see the Hollywood sign, the Golden Gate Bridge, some big trees, and then what? Maybe what people find so appealing about Texas is that it isn’t filled with smug, insufferable douchebags who think they know everything like California (although they’re doing their best to import them all…see, I can generalize too).
Oh, and for what it’s worth, I’ve lived many of the same places you have in addition to others, including both Dallas and SF. California is an amazing state and is unparalleled in terms of natural beauty, but I would live in TX over CA every day and not think twice, and I didn’t grow up in either so no dog in the fight.
Most of these I already knew from different sources.
Vermont doesn’t even border the ocean.
The STATES do not fall under the central gov. The states RETAIN various rights that were not handed over to the central gov.
The Statue of Liberty is actually in New Jersey not New York
I'm so tired of hearing about the northwest angle MN and Point Roberts, WA.
I don’t understand why we haven’t corrected this and either sold or just annexed it to our northern neighbor. There’s no real advantage to the US to keep, and this is all based on bad mapping and human error to begin with. This would be a constant inconvenience to Canadian border control as well as those living in the US zone. Seems ridiculous and unnecessary with no upside for US
Hate it when people use miles to measure area
The USA defeating Mexico in the Mexican-American War, with all of Mexico possibly to be merged with the USA, allowed the USA to define the border. What the USA didn't want was left to be the country of Mexico.
Except that it didn't resolve all the issues, hence the GADSDEN PURCHASE: "The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War."
23:29 Erie doesn't exist.
Alaska is bigger than Texas
Sorry, Vermont is a land-locked state. It doesn't have a seacoast. There is no way it could be the closest to Africa.
Stop believing RUclips BS. Texas no more represents the people of New Jersey than does London represent all of the UK.
No, Texas isnt like the US on steroids 😊 Every state is a as unique as the stars in the sky. States have their own cultures, communities, origins, topography. There's just no way to compare them and no two of them are alike. My guess is you guys think that because of the size of the state, but consider this: EVERYBODY in the world knows about New York, but its pales in size to Texas. Hope that helps!
Boreing! 😂😊
Respect me!!! Are you for real! 😂😊
Eric Cartman: "Respect My Authority" (a great meme).
@@BTinSF your a simpleton!🤣
@@Seansf1 You obviously have no clue about me or anything else. You’re just a troll.
@@BTinSF don’t waste my time troll trolling me
@@BTinSF Ha! Now I know I’ve got your attention 😜😁😁😁😀
Are you watching the videos or are you just texting?
For some reason he seems to really enjoy trolling Thurston.
Huh! Wrong! Again!😊
Respect me!!! Are you for real! 😂😊