Interesting Maps That Teach You About The U.S.

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  • In this video I show and talk about a few interesting maps which depict the United States. Presenting us with information about how each state and/or county compare in certain aspects. (Map timestamps below).
    TIMESTAMPS:
    00:03 Intro
    00:45 Life Expectancy
    02:35 Biggest Minorities
    03:49 State Mottos
    04:44 Cattle per 1000 People
    05:35 Estimated Water Usage per capita
    06:10 Population Growth
    07:17 States divded by Natural Barriers
    08:19 Megaregions
    09:07 Jewish Americans per State
    09:38 Type of Christianity followed
    10:12 Portuguese Americans per State
    10:39 Oldest Building per State
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  • @General.Knowledge
    @General.Knowledge  2 роки тому +237

    Did any of this data surprise you?

    • @rj5848
      @rj5848 2 роки тому +11

      Yeah , the population change part did ! Majority of the portion is below 0.0 ,which means population is decreasing but as we see USA politics they are very concerned with their population and are decreasing immigrants but by the map we realise its decreasing.

    • @dawas3610
      @dawas3610 2 роки тому +4

      Yes being from South Carolina, I did not know how bad it was, tbf I only lived there for a couple years.

    • @PurPurDot
      @PurPurDot 2 роки тому +7

      Yes didn’t except California to have the highest life expectancy

    • @Haradin32
      @Haradin32 2 роки тому +3

      I have watched how the states got their shapes. The upper pen was given to mich because of the Toledo war.

    • @arondomguy
      @arondomguy 2 роки тому +2

      yes

  • @lillyie
    @lillyie 2 роки тому +708

    Eastern US state borders: based off geography like mountains, rivers, etc
    Western US state borders: R E C T A N G L E S

    • @user-or3xg2id6e
      @user-or3xg2id6e 2 роки тому +26

      thanks weeb

    • @ranvids6237
      @ranvids6237 2 роки тому +50

      at least its better then Maryland's borders

    • @Name-ej8mt
      @Name-ej8mt 2 роки тому +27

      "i am a rectangle" ~wyoming

    • @darkjedi74
      @darkjedi74 2 роки тому +12

      We have Thomas Jefferson to thank for much of that (straight line borders and rectangles)

    • @DNLTE
      @DNLTE 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah thanks weeb... wait.

  • @dispergosum
    @dispergosum 2 роки тому +203

    Maybe the NE more Catholic because of the Portuguese
    Irish and Italians: "am I a joke to you?"

    • @timebleeder2814
      @timebleeder2814 2 роки тому +11

      You forgot Puerto Ricans.

    • @warcrimeenjoyer219
      @warcrimeenjoyer219 2 роки тому

      Was about to say that as one

    • @l.n.3372
      @l.n.3372 2 роки тому +14

      His Portuguese bias is showing there xD

    • @DNHarris
      @DNHarris 2 роки тому +6

      Lots of weird assumptions throughout the video like this one. His videos could be on a whole level higher if he did a tiny bit of research.

    • @pilbe007
      @pilbe007 2 роки тому +5

      Haha. Yeah. Also assuming that California is catholic because of the Portuguese residents when they are actually less than 1% of the state’s population? This narrator needs to do more research.

  • @georgiancrossroads
    @georgiancrossroads 2 роки тому +441

    I liked the Portuguese map. A nice little personal touch. I actually grew up in California near San Francisco and there were a few Portuguese kids in my high school. There had been a settlement in the Northern San Francisco Bay Area. And they were descended from that wave of immigration.

    • @sohopedeco
      @sohopedeco 2 роки тому +27

      I find funny how there are so many Portuguese immigrants in the US, France, and other non-Portuguese speaking countries while so many of their own colonies were left underpopulated (except for Brazil, of course).

    • @Not_Sal
      @Not_Sal 2 роки тому +11

      There’s a bunch of Portuguese kids here in the NY area, especially north Jersey and westchester

    • @295g295
      @295g295 2 роки тому +2

      > 10:10 < Portugal

    • @michaeljacobs9532
      @michaeljacobs9532 2 роки тому +2

      Fremont CA born here. Just thought I would add that. Haha

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 2 роки тому +6

      Newark, CA had the highest concentration of Portuguese descendants in the US. That is reflected n the place names. The next highest was a town in New Jersey.

  • @theskeletonappearsinthisco5896
    @theskeletonappearsinthisco5896 2 роки тому +371

    Ohio : "with God all things are possible"
    Utah : "I n d u s t r y"

    • @matti...
      @matti... 2 роки тому +49

      It would honestly make more sense if the two were swapped

    • @imme6954
      @imme6954 2 роки тому +17

      Faith without works is dead.

    • @Zero_Is_Stopping_Time
      @Zero_Is_Stopping_Time 2 роки тому +3

      Wait ours isn’t industry? Dang that’s wrong

    • @matti...
      @matti... 2 роки тому

      @@imme6954 very true

    • @IowaKim
      @IowaKim 2 роки тому +16

      Industry in the past meant "hard work". Only in the past 100 years has that meant factories.

  • @MinesomeMC
    @MinesomeMC 2 роки тому +422

    Hawaii is actually majority Asian, so Europeans/Whites are technically the largest minority

    • @samlewis3869
      @samlewis3869 2 роки тому +67

      I don't really understand the term minority. Recently minority has been seeming to meet anyone that's not white.

    • @MinesomeMC
      @MinesomeMC 2 роки тому +57

      @@samlewis3869 minority usually means to be less than 50%

    • @samlewis3869
      @samlewis3869 2 роки тому +16

      @@MinesomeMC I thought it would be the smallest group. Or in terms of minorities it would be anything below 40%.

    • @RS-ls7mm
      @RS-ls7mm 2 роки тому +18

      Same with many states in the US, whites are the minority. CA, NM, ... Whites are expected to be the minority in the US in 20 to 30 years.

    • @lordkent8143
      @lordkent8143 2 роки тому +13

      Yes Hawaii's population is majority Asian and Pacific Islander but white also has a high percentage something like more than 35%. Depends on how you look at the video's map. The map looks at the USA as a whole nation when it comes to minorities. If you look at just Hawaii alone then it is actually African American lol

  • @Bluebirdz2202
    @Bluebirdz2202 2 роки тому +135

    I found an old globe in my middle school’s basement a few years ago when getting props for the school musical. It still had the USSR and the British and French colonies. The guineas were also grouped together

    • @ryanscotts9633
      @ryanscotts9633 2 роки тому +7

      My school's current map was drawn by the time when it was built like, in 80s or something and it still has,
      USSR
      Czechoslovakia
      Yugoslavia
      Austrian-Hungry and alot more.
      And, mistakes like,
      Kinshasa instead of DR. Congo.(DRC's capital)
      And, Germany is divided.
      Definitely, the painter was drunk.

    • @Liner_404
      @Liner_404 2 роки тому +11

      @@ryanscotts9633 Kinshasa is one of the names for the DRC. And, I do hope that you know Germany was split up during the cold war.

    • @PierceMyGuy
      @PierceMyGuy 2 роки тому +1

      That’s crazy

    • @tcm1010_7
      @tcm1010_7 2 роки тому +3

      Should've grabbed that, could be worth something some day.

    • @Bluebirdz2202
      @Bluebirdz2202 2 роки тому +4

      @@tcm1010_7 I tried to ask the teacher if I could have it after the musical. She said she'll think about it but never got back to me :(

  • @seamussc
    @seamussc 2 роки тому +352

    Population density makes the Catholic numbers look misleadingly small on the map. The US is actually more Catholic than it looks-- it has the fourth largest Catholic population in the world and more than any European country. Plus, Roman Catholicism as a denomination is actually bigger than any individual protestant denomination, at around 25%, with Baptists coming in second at around 15%.

    • @lucaschiantodipepe2015
      @lucaschiantodipepe2015 2 роки тому +36

      I'm from Rome, hi. I think that catholicism in the USA is Spanish in the South (California, Florida, New Mexico) and Italian, Irish, polish in the north. By the way italian Americans are 80% from the former kingdom of Sicilies.

    • @richardjones6024
      @richardjones6024 2 роки тому +12

      @@lucaschiantodipepe2015 You would be right, my grandparents are actually from Naples!

    • @walterwhitecar8670
      @walterwhitecar8670 2 роки тому +31

      And the reason Louisiana is Catholic is due the French influence there

    • @privatedino3239
      @privatedino3239 2 роки тому +6

      @@lucaschiantodipepe2015 I’m New Mexican and there are Catholic Churches everywhere

    • @tomatop6754
      @tomatop6754 2 роки тому +8

      That being said the only 2 'Christian' religions with a population birth rate above 2.0 is Mormonism and the Amish/Mennonite religions. Theres maps that show that if it stays like that theyll take over in the next 200 years. The Amish population actually doubles every 25 years thats how high their birth rate is.

  • @WHR0306
    @WHR0306 2 роки тому +17

    "Live Free or Die" from New Hampshire is my favorite.

    • @WHR0306
      @WHR0306 2 роки тому +1

      @Seven Inches of Throbbing Pink Jesus hahahaha you're crazy

  • @lordkent8143
    @lordkent8143 2 роки тому +41

    I'm from Hawaii and I can say that we have a lot of retirees and senior citizens (perfect climate to retire). So that could be a reason why when you factor the number of older people the average may be higher than others states. That and we have a lot of Asian people who came from countries that normally have high expectancies (e.g. Japan).

  • @urnad12345
    @urnad12345 2 роки тому +221

    Can you do this but for the world?

    • @sully5818
      @sully5818 2 роки тому +14

      My head hurts thinking about that

    • @TheJttv
      @TheJttv 2 роки тому +17

      US gov't funds alot of this kinda data research, finding the same on a global scale is a bit harder.

    • @sully5818
      @sully5818 2 роки тому +12

      @@TheJttv yea that's what I was thinking maybe it could work if we look at the EU and a few other nations but most nation don't have the time or the funding to bring data in this scale

    • @deleted-something
      @deleted-something 2 роки тому +1

      Ye

    • @Fungusthedinoguy1915
      @Fungusthedinoguy1915 2 роки тому +2

      Bruh, he didn't make the map

  • @Tayusai34
    @Tayusai34 2 роки тому +69

    “Caucasian people are the largest group in every single state”
    Hawai’i, with a 60% Asian population: LMAO LOOK AT THIS GUY😂😂🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣

  • @lildreng
    @lildreng 2 роки тому +42

    The quality of your videos is steadily improving, a joy to experience.

  • @seamussc
    @seamussc 2 роки тому +56

    Being from South Carolina, I am surprised our water usage is so much higher than our neighbors in NC and Georgia, which are more populated (and Georgia just as hot). Heck, we seem to lead the east coast.
    My best guess is that it's because we have more golf courses per capita than any other state, and golf courses require enormous amounts of water to maintain.

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 2 роки тому +3

      It's because they whole state reports rather than being broken down by county. Same with North Carolina. That map in particular is severely broken. The low and high usage areas in the west are largely due to population density being low with high agriculture, or exceedingly low population density in those counties.

    • @braxon
      @braxon 2 роки тому

      @@Markle2k You forget, low population density with high agriculture in the desert.

    • @mahlkov
      @mahlkov 2 роки тому

      Must be all he golf courses in Myrtle Beach! lol

    • @viewer-of-content
      @viewer-of-content 2 роки тому +2

      South Carolina and Georgia are not in the top ten for Golf courses per capita. The Great plains states and great lakes states all have more golf courses per capita. Basically every one of the least dense states has more golf courses per capita then most states because there is often one golfcorse per reasonably sized small town. So mapping golf courses per capita over population density would be an interesting map. Also yes many states have more golf courses numerically when they have a greater population sizes numerically, but increased land cost often limits courses per capita numbers.

    • @duckmeister5385
      @duckmeister5385 2 роки тому

      @@viewer-of-content As I understand it, South Carolina leads in golf courses per land area.

  • @vinnyfiorino9003
    @vinnyfiorino9003 2 роки тому +118

    There’s book actually on how states got their borders “How the States got their shapes”
    I forget most of them but usually states were divided by parallels just because that easy or they are decided by rivers or a mix of both (rivers that become straight lines). Also some planning occurred especially in the central-western states to make the states equal at that point. For example Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota all have roughly equal latitude height. And them together with Colorado and Wyoming have similar lengths too.

    • @jamesbednar8625
      @jamesbednar8625 2 роки тому

      Have that book - pretty interesting!!

    • @johnzengerle7576
      @johnzengerle7576 2 роки тому +2

      It was also a tv show

    • @jas1007
      @jas1007 2 роки тому +1

      I recommend that too...it really explains things. East coast was based on colonial charters that were set with partial geographic knowledge and sometimes overlapped. Additional states were carved out with some sense of balance with neighbors...Alabama and Mississippi being best example.. almost exactlty the same size. Prairie states similar-sized rectangles, mountain states similar-sized rectangles. Natural barriers and local politics explain the inconsistencies. CA and TX were powerful enough to enter as large states.

    • @-Subtle-
      @-Subtle- 2 роки тому +2

      ND and SD were created to steal political power. 4 senate seats outvotes NY.

    • @KOBY
      @KOBY 2 роки тому

      This exactly. The 37th parallel divides UT, CO, & KS from AZ, NM, & OK. And then the entire western border of NJ is defined by the Delaware River. And like you said, both sometimes. Like between NY & PA where most of it is the 42nd parallel until it reaches the Delaware River and that becomes it's border. MD, DE & PA are the result of the Mason-Dixon Line

  • @fatco11
    @fatco11 2 роки тому +43

    This was very interesting. Utah’s motto, Industry, while mundane on the surface, goes back to early pioneer attitudes of hard work and perseverance. It also relates to Utah’s nickname; The Beehive State.

    • @Stant123
      @Stant123 2 роки тому +2

      I'd like to echo this sentiment. Most of the time, words change meanings over the years and sometimes new words are invented. So Industry was used because no other word existed at the time to better describe what they were trying to communicate, and now it means something a little different. My favorite example comes from one of the editors-in-chief of the magazine Popular Mechanics. Surprisingly it features next to nothing about actual automobile mechanics as we'd interpret the name today. As stated, it's a tech magazine and the word technology just didn't exist in 1902. However, anything that was high tech at the time, was mechanical, and referred to as that. So the magazine was named Popular Mechanics. If it was created in 2002, it'd have been named Popular Technology as this new word better describes its content and the old word means something a little different.

  • @WasatchWind
    @WasatchWind 2 роки тому +21

    Utah's motto industry is based is our symbolism of the honeybee - that hard work is a chief virtue that made our state. I do not think it is weird at all.

    • @brianarbenz7206
      @brianarbenz7206 2 роки тому +1

      Hard work, and economic cartels, maintained under the guise of religion.

    • @WasatchWind
      @WasatchWind 2 роки тому +1

      @@brianarbenz7206 Seriously, the moment I say the slightest thing about my state, some a**hat is just waiting to sling some insult at us. What the heck did we ever do to you?

    • @TG-jv8lf
      @TG-jv8lf 2 роки тому

      @@WasatchWind dude you’re talking about Utah like you personally had a role in establishing the state and how it turned out and have to defend its honor. Like yea maybe he shouldn’t criticize the state on some random video about all the states, but there’s some truth to what he’s saying regarding religion and it’s influence and power in the state it’s not that big of deal though you’re taking it so personally which leads me to think you just don’t like people criticizing the state you live in regardless of context.

    • @WasatchWind
      @WasatchWind 2 роки тому +3

      @@TG-jv8lf It's because it's my ancestors that did it - I acknowledge I take things like this personally because any word about Utah is usually negative. Every depiction of our state in pop culture is such. I'm sick of it.

    • @HenryPaulThe3rd
      @HenryPaulThe3rd 2 роки тому +3

      @@WasatchWind Personally I think Utah is pretty rad. I hiked an awesome mountain in Lake Point, most gorgeous place I’ve been in the US

  • @Deadpool-fz2pt
    @Deadpool-fz2pt 2 роки тому +30

    Also a lot of Mexicans are Catholics and in the southern of border of the us we can see this influence

    • @efrencruz4422
      @efrencruz4422 2 роки тому +2

      You should watch acts 17 apologetics and pfander films and dcci ministries and christian prince and cira international and shamounian and soco films on UA-cam and watch all the channels on UA-cam erik 😀😀😀

    • @Deadpool-fz2pt
      @Deadpool-fz2pt 2 роки тому

      Efren Cruz what are you talking about

    • @efrencruz4422
      @efrencruz4422 2 роки тому +2

      @@Deadpool-fz2pt I said you should watch acts 17 apologetics and pfander films and christian prince on UA-cam and watch all the videos on UA-cam erik that's what I said 😀😀😀

    • @Student0Toucher
      @Student0Toucher 2 роки тому +2

      Not a lot literally like over 80%

  • @fatco11
    @fatco11 2 роки тому +14

    “How the States Got Their Shapes” is a good read on a similar topic.

    • @beckycaughel7557
      @beckycaughel7557 2 роки тому

      Yes it is and also the history channel series on it is very interesting and very entertaining

  • @jeremiahallyn4603
    @jeremiahallyn4603 2 роки тому +5

    This was a really cool video. I've always liked maps and various statistics. Nice job 👏💯

  • @Cibzo
    @Cibzo 2 роки тому +19

    Can you make a similar video about Europe? I think it's pretty interesting to see how different we are on this small continent.
    I love your videos btw. they're entertaining, and helps me to understand more geography and history.

  • @willhammers9761
    @willhammers9761 2 роки тому +35

    Nice video... A few years ago the History Channel made a show called how States got their shapes... Could have been interesting but they turned it into... welcome to this city in Texas which is famous for BBQ. Then talk about amusement parks and Bs. Nothing to do with how they got their shapes

    • @guspolly
      @guspolly 2 роки тому +3

      The series is based on a book that goes over every border in every state

  • @Zo3yX
    @Zo3yX 2 роки тому +19

    As someone who lived in RI for 16 years and now living in MA, I can definitely say we have a ton of Portuguese people. I love the food so much flavor and spice.

    • @B3Band
      @B3Band 2 роки тому +1

      Newark, NJ too, but only the west side of it. It's incredible how different the west side of Newark is to the rest of it. The Portuguese side is fun and safe. The rest is a fucking cesspool.

    • @shaydowsith348
      @shaydowsith348 2 роки тому

      Aren't there more people of Spanish Descent than Portuguese?

    • @Zo3yX
      @Zo3yX 2 роки тому +1

      @@shaydowsith348 probably, but I know more Portuguese people

  • @joshuamtzchz2596
    @joshuamtzchz2596 2 роки тому +17

    Nice video about American maps it explains quite interesting stuff about the us you do pretty good videos general I really enjoy watching them

    • @Diana1000Smiles
      @Diana1000Smiles 2 роки тому

      Perhaps this Site would post the States of the US that suffer the most opiate overdoses? Big Pharma is a huge problem in this Nation.

  • @johnwilson427
    @johnwilson427 Рік тому

    Great presentation! Thanks

  • @Summer-isnotcool
    @Summer-isnotcool 2 роки тому +32

    Woah, the last map really drives home how incredibly young the US is. I grew up having picnics in a castle ruin dating from the 14th Century, visiting museums from the 15th and earth works and burial sites dating all the way back to the Bronze Age, all within 20 miles of my home. And in European terms, my country is fairly young xD

    • @Summer-isnotcool
      @Summer-isnotcool 2 роки тому +2

      I'm sorry, I meant no disrespect. I fully appreciate that static settlements are in no way "better" than a more nomadic way of life that doesn't leave as much behind, at least in the form of buildings. I admit that my rather flippant comment referred specifically to the history of the US as a country rather than the history of the continent itself, which is of course long and fascinating, and most definitely stretches all the way forward to this day.
      And yes, I'm aware that not all cultures developed metal working in the same stages as we did in Eurasia. I simply referred to the Bronze Age because that is how we count time here in Finland. Had I been talking about the history of a different continent, I would have used terminology that would be better suited to that specific region's (pre)history.
      Again, I apologise. I meant no offense.

    • @alfredosauce3727
      @alfredosauce3727 Рік тому +2

      Yeah on the global stage we're super young. The 250th anniversary of our independence is the 4th of July in 2026.

    • @Fuglychick
      @Fuglychick Рік тому +2

      The USA is like a teenager who thinks they know everything.

    • @graceneilitz7661
      @graceneilitz7661 8 місяців тому +1

      @@FuglychickThe United States has one of the longest continuous governments in the world.

    • @Fuglychick
      @Fuglychick 8 місяців тому +1

      @@graceneilitz7661 what is your point?

  • @m.c604
    @m.c604 2 роки тому +11

    You deserve these subs gg

  • @patriciajohnsonson8639
    @patriciajohnsonson8639 2 роки тому

    Thx for all of this info. I enjoyed this video.

  • @alabhaois
    @alabhaois 2 роки тому +1

    Really fascinating!! Thanks 👍!!

  • @SuperNatblessed
    @SuperNatblessed 2 роки тому +4

    I'm 35 and I'm born and raised in Virginia very very insightful I love to learn great video!

  • @jamesmiles9851
    @jamesmiles9851 2 роки тому +4

    You deserve more subs

  • @TheGeographyBible
    @TheGeographyBible 2 роки тому

    Super interesting video, thanks for this!

  • @chandrasekarank.l9146
    @chandrasekarank.l9146 2 роки тому +1

    Its wonderful for people who seek knowledge. Thank you so much.

  • @robynkolozsvari
    @robynkolozsvari 2 роки тому +6

    "Chinook Jargon" is an English phrase to reference a mixed/creole/trade language used in the Pacific Northwest, which is based most heavily on the Chinook languages; the word "jargon" is literally an English word.

  • @Elendrian
    @Elendrian 2 роки тому +37

    Why life expectancy is lower in the south isn't that complicated. There are four simple reasons.
    1. Di
    2. A
    3. Beet
    4. Us

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 2 роки тому +4

      1. Tax
      2. base
      3. to
      4. pay
      5. for
      6. de
      7. cent
      8. me
      9. di
      10. cal
      11. care

    • @Elendrian
      @Elendrian 2 роки тому +6

      @@Markle2k It's less about medical care and more about lifestyle issues. Medical care is the backend symptom of a larger problem.

    • @Elendrian
      @Elendrian 2 роки тому +2

      @@Markle2k But the lifestyle issues are also rooted in poverty, so you're partially right.

    • @randomuser5443
      @randomuser5443 2 роки тому

      @@Elendrian
      Soul food, a popular thing in those states, were based around getting as many calories as possible because of a mix of poverty and slavery

    • @Toastmaster_5000
      @Toastmaster_5000 2 роки тому

      More like heart failure, but yeah

  • @lepi2905
    @lepi2905 2 роки тому +2

    Woow 500K+ subscribers. Feels like you yesterday have 150K. Keep up the good work. Next stop 1M.🥇

  • @taargustaargus3139
    @taargustaargus3139 2 роки тому

    Great video. Keep up the awesome work!

  • @sowhat1073
    @sowhat1073 2 роки тому +6

    One of the best things about living in Hawaii for three years was the Portuguese bean soup. Literally the best thing since PB&J!

  • @improbably42
    @improbably42 2 роки тому +18

    4:06 Jargon - /ˈjärɡən/ - special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.
    It is jargon in the Chinook language, not the language "Chinook Jargon".

    • @prosfilaes
      @prosfilaes 2 роки тому +2

      The pronunciation was wrong, but the language is known as Chinook Jargon, a pidgin that is a distinct language from Chinook.

  • @likemeordont5951
    @likemeordont5951 2 роки тому

    Incredible. I subscribed and hit the bell. Looking forward to seeing what other great stuff you got coming . I'm putting your channel next on my binge list.

  • @Sportoddities
    @Sportoddities 2 роки тому +1

    This video is great. I spotted my county and followed along with the data of each map.

  • @omnisel
    @omnisel 2 роки тому +11

    4:06
    Small correction here
    "Chinook" is the language, and in this case "Jargon" is a synonym for "language". It's just what the settlers ended up calling it - especially because early in Washington's history, Chinook became a very prominent trading language, melding with English, with some words from Chinook being used by locals up to today. Cheers!

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 2 роки тому

      "Jargon" is an old English word for "gibberish". Don't try to equate it with an aboriginal language or you will be doing that language a disservice.

    • @omnisel
      @omnisel 2 роки тому +1

      @@Markle2k en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon
      The Americans who settled the place called it Jargon, and thus, that is what we call it.

    • @weirdlanguageguy
      @weirdlanguageguy 2 роки тому +1

      @@Markle2k chinook and chinook jargon are actually different languages; chinook is the native language of various native tribes of Washington, while chinook jargon is a pidgin language of chinook and English used for trade in the 1800s

    • @44H44
      @44H44 2 роки тому

      @@weirdlanguageguy chinook is a word in blackfoot

    • @weirdlanguageguy
      @weirdlanguageguy 2 роки тому

      @@44H44 chinook was spoken in what is now the states of Washington and Oregon, while blackfoot was spoken in the Alberta area

  • @FrankHorigan
    @FrankHorigan 2 роки тому +4

    4:07 since when was Texas’s motto friendship I was never told this

  • @cortlincabbiness7726
    @cortlincabbiness7726 2 роки тому

    Awesome video! I just subscribed. Loved it!

  • @chugwater6308
    @chugwater6308 2 роки тому +2

    Very interesting and informative. I felt like I'm sitting in a classroom ✔💯

  • @michelleken.
    @michelleken. 2 роки тому +8

    Hey General Knowledge,
    Since you're Portugese, would you sometime like to explain why there are so many Portugese people in Luxemburg? I read that it is the second most spoken mother tongue in Luxemburg, even more than French and German! :))

    • @seansimms8503
      @seansimms8503 2 роки тому +1

      Both of those countries were world powers before the British and French, maybe economical reason from the past...

  • @jesussandoval9843
    @jesussandoval9843 2 роки тому +17

    The city I live in, vallejo, is considered the most diverse city in the US (2012). My high school had a lot of Latino, Polynesian, African American, and Asian people. It’s the coolest thing about the town in my opinion. I was really happy to have friends from different backgrounds.

    • @coquiocastro12
      @coquiocastro12 2 роки тому +1

      Vallejo California

    • @THEOsu-bu1sy
      @THEOsu-bu1sy 2 роки тому

      I thought Stockton was

    • @chicagoakland
      @chicagoakland 2 роки тому +2

      Shoutout to the Bay Area, the whole region is super diverse. My town, San Leandro, is like that as well. It makes it difficult if you travel to other parts of America and realize that not everyone is represented in some states or cities.

    • @jesussandoval9843
      @jesussandoval9843 2 роки тому

      @@chicagoakland I can relate, that’s how I felt moving to Ohio for a few months. I actually had my first racist cop story from driving around Illinois at the age of 10 with my family. Lots of looks, racist jokes from kids. The east coast is a big difference from Cali I’ll tell you that. I agree with you, people need to be more polite to others. Also San Leonardo sounds cool, I still haven’t been there but it sounds nice to go visit.

  • @mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150
    @mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150 2 роки тому

    Great video! Congrats for the 500k!!

  • @rolfjacobson833
    @rolfjacobson833 2 роки тому +1

    well done like always

  • @barbroy39
    @barbroy39 2 роки тому +5

    "How the States got Their Shapes" is an ibteresting book.

    • @Diana1000Smiles
      @Diana1000Smiles 2 роки тому

      People don't read what other peoples comment? Or, is this another Clone site?

  • @56BIGM
    @56BIGM 2 роки тому

    outstanding--many, many thanks

  • @thetrison
    @thetrison 2 роки тому +1

    OMG. Your starting example of someone looking at a map or globe and being able to guess when it was produced sounds just like me. I subconsciously do it every time I see one.

  • @MC_aigorithm
    @MC_aigorithm 2 роки тому +5

    In the life expectancy map, the big island of Hawaii was replaced with the whole island of Puerto Rico? I've never seen that before lol

  • @Vincetagram
    @Vincetagram 2 роки тому +4

    8:53 lol the way he pronounced piedmont lmao. btw, as someone who lives near that region, they aren't really as connected as this map make it seem. Between greenville and atlanta there are miles of just nothing lol

  • @phillphoffman1608
    @phillphoffman1608 2 роки тому

    This was cool and interesting, Thanks

  • @christianantunez1166
    @christianantunez1166 2 роки тому

    Cool video 👍 congrats 🎉

  • @Zachruff
    @Zachruff 2 роки тому +3

    I think its supposed to be "Jargon" as in the word meaning like "special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand."

  • @mysteriousDSF
    @mysteriousDSF 2 роки тому +4

    Me: finally a General Knowledge video without Portugal in it
    General Knowledge: 10:12

  • @maryquint3254
    @maryquint3254 2 роки тому

    Fascinating. Thank you

  • @mattpfeifer9302
    @mattpfeifer9302 2 роки тому +1

    This is well made, concise and informative. I appreciate his dictation and speaking quickly. This took a lot of time and a effort to create. Should be a bigger channel

  • @all-americanboy1776
    @all-americanboy1776 2 роки тому +7

    I have a grandparent from Hawaii and she’s part Portuguese. But yeah Hawaii surprised me about percentage of Portuguese

    • @jorgecandeias
      @jorgecandeias 2 роки тому +4

      Wait till you find out the ukelele is actually a Portuguese instrument, very slightly changed by the hawaiians, called cavaquinho.

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 2 роки тому +1

      The state musical instrument was inspired by one brought there by a portuguese immigrant worker.

    • @4_the_health_of_it
      @4_the_health_of_it 2 роки тому

      Technically the descendants of Portuguese in Hawai’i are from the Azores. If I am not mistaken, this was not part of Portugal when they arrived in Hawai’i during the sugar plantation days.

    • @jorgecandeias
      @jorgecandeias 2 роки тому +1

      @@4_the_health_of_it You are absolutely mistaken.
      Firstly, the bulk of Portuguese immigration to Hawai'i came not from the Azores but from Madeira.
      And secondly both archipelagoes have always been part of Portugal, as they were both uninhabited when the Portuguese arrived there and got swiftly integrated into the kingdom and populated.

    • @4_the_health_of_it
      @4_the_health_of_it 2 роки тому

      @@jorgecandeias I agree that most likely came from the Madeira rather than the Azores, but both are autonomous from Portugal. While they were colonized by Portuguese (and the Spanish - from the Iberian peninsula), they were always considered independent and they have since gained full independence since the 1970s. Most the inhabitants to these islands (Azores and Madeira) were there long before the concept of a Portuguese kingdom. And, thus these islands had long established themselves as somewhat independent before the rise of the Portuguese kingdom.

  • @matthewdockter2424
    @matthewdockter2424 2 роки тому +4

    "That part of Michigan in the Wisconsin Peninsula."
    On Wisconsin! We shall avenge the Toledo Compromise!

    • @auroraourania7161
      @auroraourania7161 2 роки тому

      I was joking about conquering the Upper Peninsula in the name of cheese on a call just an hour ago. Really, there's no reason for that to be separate from Wisconsin, yes it's culturally distinct from Southern Wisconsin, but no more so than Northern Wisconsin is.

  • @davidzellers3537
    @davidzellers3537 2 роки тому

    Great video

  • @sireelknight60
    @sireelknight60 2 роки тому +2

    I've been to Hawaii several times and I'm always surprised at how many native Hawaiians I meet have a Portuguese ancestor(s). I could be wrong but I think the Portuguese settled and interbred with the natives sometime in the 19th century.

  • @irishjet2687
    @irishjet2687 2 роки тому +3

    8:12 You SHOULD make a video about how the state borders were drawn, because a lot of them have incredibly interesting stories.
    In the east, early colonial charters establishing borders were very vague, and often conflicted. Vermont exists because both New York and New Hampshire claimed the area, and the settlers caught in the middle got fed up and declared independence. Maine was an exclave of Massachusetts, and something of a colony of a colony. Rhode Island started when the Puritan settlers kicked a guy out of Massachusetts. New Jersey and New York fought in the courts over places like Staten and Ellis Island until the 1970s.
    The first colonies also claimed huge swaths of land going west, which helped lead to the Revolution when Britain banned western expansion after the Seven Years War. These claims didn't come to fruition, and the lands became territories. As more people moved into those areas, Congress and territorial governors slowly began dividing up the land somewhat arbitrarily, usually for the purposes of not creating states that were way too big and making sure all states were connected to transportation routes, like the Mississippi and its tributaries and the Great Lakes.
    Of course, there are exceptions. Michigan and Ohio both wanted a strip of land on the western shores of Lake Erie called the "Toledo Strip", and almost went to war over it. Ohio was granted it, and Michigan got the Upper Peninsula as a consolation prize.

    • @nickhill8612
      @nickhill8612 2 роки тому

      That's interesting and thank you.
      Do you know about the Kentucky Bend?
      It has a odd border and the only way to get there is going to Tennessee.

    • @efandmk3382
      @efandmk3382 2 роки тому

      There is a whole television series about this. "How the States were Formed" on History , I think (?).

  • @jacobball8422
    @jacobball8422 2 роки тому

    My first time watching you're content. Really good content.

    • @Diana1000Smiles
      @Diana1000Smiles 2 роки тому

      My first time, too, and maybe last. I'm slightly disappointed in the replies.

  • @johnconnery1939
    @johnconnery1939 5 місяців тому

    Nice job.

  • @mahatmarandy5977
    @mahatmarandy5977 2 роки тому +4

    Something that is sort of interesting is that the American Hispanic population in most of the US is primarily of Mexican extraction. The folks that live in Arizona or New Mexico or wherever either came from Mexico or had parents that came from Mexico or ancestors that came from Mexico at some point over the last several hundred years. And I suppose I'm probably due back to when those areas were actually physically still part of Mexico. In Florida rather uniquely, the Hispanic population is overwhelmingly of Cuban extraction. There's always been a large population of cubans in Florida, but following the Cuban revolution in 1950 the number exploded, and then I got another bump during me Mariel boatlift in 1980. This is interesting because there is a fundamentally different cultural background between two groups. The food is very different for instants, the accents are different, and this occasionally causes tension because tourists will come to Florida and assume everybody is Mexican because the only Hispanics that ever met our Mexican, and the Cubans don't like that very much. They're very proud of their own identity. There's no ground significance to this, it's just interesting I guess

    • @BalkyBartokomous2525
      @BalkyBartokomous2525 2 роки тому +3

      Some folks of Mexican descent didn't come from somewhere else, but rather settled these areas when they were part of Mexico and never left. They didn't come to the U.S., the U.S. came to them.

    • @mahatmarandy5977
      @mahatmarandy5977 2 роки тому +1

      Peter some americans, too.

    • @deyvijosegutierrezatencio9668
      @deyvijosegutierrezatencio9668 2 роки тому

      Cubans vote Republican
      Mexicans vote Dem.

    • @mahatmarandy5977
      @mahatmarandy5977 2 роки тому

      Deyvi José Gutiérrez Atencio i'm surprised you know that! Yes, they do!

    • @QuantumNoir
      @QuantumNoir 2 роки тому

      💪🏼🇲🇽🇺🇸💪🏼

  • @daryturian9162
    @daryturian9162 2 роки тому

    Well done on 500k mate

  • @vuchaser99
    @vuchaser99 2 роки тому

    How the States Got Their Shape. Excellent informative book if a tad repetitive and or dry. Including many of the oddities of each state.

  • @maxpowr90
    @maxpowr90 2 роки тому +37

    Should be noted those "Portuguese" in the northeast US are mostly Azoreans, and rather be called that.

    • @sohopedeco
      @sohopedeco 2 роки тому

      Monolingual Portuguese speakers have a better grasp of Spanish than of the Azorean accent. 😂

    • @bulletz510
      @bulletz510 2 роки тому +13

      They're still Portuguese. Don't care what they'd rather be called. Azores are part of Portugal.

    • @merpking748
      @merpking748 2 роки тому +2

      I go by both but I've never heard someone prefer "Azorean", wouldn't be wrong just kinda weird.

  • @Selmarya
    @Selmarya 2 роки тому +5

    I live in north Alabama, the life expectancy is actually 80
    While in the area around Selma is about 71
    It really is because of most of Alabama (except for north and beaches in Alabama) have bad living conditions

    • @montbrink4700
      @montbrink4700 2 роки тому

      Mostly because their diet is horrible

    • @sakijjarven7180
      @sakijjarven7180 2 роки тому

      We all know the real reason....

    • @erick9453
      @erick9453 2 роки тому

      @@sakijjarven7180 Qual?

    • @sakijjarven7180
      @sakijjarven7180 2 роки тому

      @@erick9453 ua-cam.com/video/ye5BuYf8q4o/v-deo.html

    • @sunnyoutdoors
      @sunnyoutdoors Рік тому

      fried foods like fried meats will kill you. EVeryone knows but they keep eating it. Diabeties here it come
      ]

  • @AshzxQuidYT
    @AshzxQuidYT 2 роки тому

    I love this video!

  • @StaackeR
    @StaackeR 2 роки тому

    I love these kinds of maps!

  • @nathanielboertien
    @nathanielboertien 2 роки тому +8

    I love how the Texas motto is friendship lmao

    • @johnhirchakiii6222
      @johnhirchakiii6222 2 роки тому

      Ya TX may be welcoming from outsid States but don t try and chng them away from belief 8n God Oil and guns not to mentn Capitalist West way of living too! So if come pleas leav your Ideaolgy eating change behind y !

  • @gregcampwriter
    @gregcampwriter 2 роки тому +3

    Ohio should have included the serpent mound formations, built around 300 B.C.E.

    • @Spiff99
      @Spiff99 2 роки тому

      To be fair to the vid/map, it does state oldest buildings. I am not sure if the serpent mound formations and other such archeological sites would be considered such.

  • @mikewabrown1052
    @mikewabrown1052 2 роки тому

    Awesome vid

  • @arlenekrese6912
    @arlenekrese6912 2 роки тому

    Intresting, thank you!🇺🇸

  • @khaos2nd
    @khaos2nd 2 роки тому +9

    Shout Mississippi. We really just continuing to lead the nation in yet another bad thing. Adding that to the never ending list

    • @stephenc2481
      @stephenc2481 2 роки тому +1

      What is the use? You can't do much after 75 years old anyway.

  • @charlesthrush8134
    @charlesthrush8134 2 роки тому +9

    The Northeast is very catholic Bc of Irish and Italian immigrants, while the Southwest is catholic because of Mexican and Central-American immigrants

    • @Quarek99
      @Quarek99 2 роки тому +2

      Also because of the proximity to Québec. More than 10% of New England's population is of french canadian descent... over 500 000 french canadian moved to New England looking for work during the second half of the 19th century.

    • @ji3194
      @ji3194 2 роки тому

      Not because of immigrants but because of the Spanish who colonized the Southwest and built tons of Catholic churches/missions in the 1500 and 1600s. Remember those Catholics where here way before the US

  • @patwsr
    @patwsr 2 роки тому

    extremely interesting to me and my family members. Please do more

  • @nickhill8612
    @nickhill8612 2 роки тому

    That's interesting and thank you.
    Do a state by state video, especially the Kentucky Bend, the only way to get there is by going to Tennessee.

  • @BaenjaminS
    @BaenjaminS 2 роки тому +66

    imagine how much older the life expectancy illinois would be without Chicago

    • @JXY2019
      @JXY2019 2 роки тому +12

      Chicago probably doesn’t do that bad on life expectancy. The northern half of the city has some very wealthy areas.

    • @brianarbenz7206
      @brianarbenz7206 2 роки тому +13

      If all there were to Illinois were Rockford, Decatur and Peoria, I would have no expectancy of living at all.

    • @Grimmes12
      @Grimmes12 2 роки тому

      @@brianarbenz7206 lol

    • @DKMetcaIf
      @DKMetcaIf 2 роки тому

      Yeah cause so many people from Chicago get shot

    • @nicolesmrekar2046
      @nicolesmrekar2046 Рік тому +7

      Now imagine the total USA life expectancy without the south.

  • @HeWhoShams
    @HeWhoShams 2 роки тому +6

    I know where I'm moving to instead of staying in Alabama.. moving to where the Native Americans live

  • @Bozcard
    @Bozcard 2 роки тому

    Very interesting video. I particularly liked the ide of dividing states by rivers and natural landmarks. Although, I am originally from Michigan and hesitate about giving up the UP, it does make more sense for Wisconsin. But if that were the case, would the Mackinac Bridge have been built?

  • @fanaticat1
    @fanaticat1 2 роки тому

    I found this video VERY interesting!

  • @Simon-tc1mc
    @Simon-tc1mc 2 роки тому +4

    Catholicism in the Northeast is probably more due to the Irish than the Portuguese haha

    • @auroraourania7161
      @auroraourania7161 2 роки тому

      Italian as well, New York has a massive Italian American population and the states around it have sizeable ones as well, far larger than the Portuguese American populations.

  • @seanthe100
    @seanthe100 2 роки тому +37

    Crazy that California has such a high life expectancy yet gets such a bad rep.

    • @colbystearns5066
      @colbystearns5066 2 роки тому +26

      Yeah, haters gonna hate I guess. I like living here.

    • @juankroosfrausto7411
      @juankroosfrausto7411 2 роки тому +8

      The east and texas like to talk shit but die early

    • @johnqueen6430
      @johnqueen6430 2 роки тому +16

      The states with the longest life expectancy are mostly blue states. Blue states tend to spend more on soci programs than red states. Also, California has a large Hispanic and Asian population and when combined all together it accounts for it's very high life expectancy.

    • @jacquesblaque7728
      @jacquesblaque7728 2 роки тому +4

      @@juankroosfrausto7411 Maybe in the SE, but not the NE. Get it straight. Possibly the righties aren't too brighty.

    • @juankroosfrausto7411
      @juankroosfrausto7411 2 роки тому +5

      @@jacquesblaque7728 yeah my bad NE is cool but the South East with their Republican talk.. a lot and die early LOL

  • @familytreenutshistorygenealogy
    @familytreenutshistorygenealogy 2 роки тому

    Love these maps. Would also love to know how to add these graphics to videos.

  • @balham5606
    @balham5606 2 роки тому

    Good video

  • @bartpenrod4475
    @bartpenrod4475 2 роки тому +10

    The official name of the church since April 26, 1838 (for over 183 years) is, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints". Mormon was an ancient prophet that compiled a book called The Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ. Members of the church worship Jesus Christ. I recommend you update the map data to reflect them with Christian status. Thank you

    • @bdailshie
      @bdailshie 2 роки тому +2

      I was coming to the comments for this exact purpose. I know he is just going off the map data he found, so I don't blame him, but "Mormonism" isn't really a thing as the official name of the church states.
      Still, cool that we get mentioned as 1 of 3 "types" of Christianity.

    • @mr.punkie5872
      @mr.punkie5872 2 роки тому

      No

  • @rj5848
    @rj5848 2 роки тому +4

    Regarding the age expectancy in USA ,males have a age expectancy of 76 whereas females have a age expectancy of 81 years , literally a difference of 5 years i think thats why it ranges from 74 to 81 maybe due to the gender as well.

    • @General.Knowledge
      @General.Knowledge  2 роки тому +1

      Women tend to have longer life expectancies right? But that's such a big difference

  • @olinayoung6287
    @olinayoung6287 2 роки тому

    Thanks!

  • @stevehi8677
    @stevehi8677 2 роки тому +2

    1:58 a good majority of it deals with culture, norms, and genetics
    (Can’t remember the source of this info) but there is also a severe doctor to nurse gap due to the lack of opportunities, professional, and general mistrust. The figure I looked at was close to 500 for every doctor. Again please feel free to double check

  • @kkm969
    @kkm969 2 роки тому +3

    Had a question. You are Portuguese, so is your favourite footballer Cristiano Ronaldo?
    If it's No,then who. But If you don't want any controversy you my say it's him

    • @franciscoricca8309
      @franciscoricca8309 2 роки тому +1

      Btw, it is Cristiano, not Christiano

    • @kkm969
      @kkm969 2 роки тому

      @@franciscoricca8309thanks for the correction.
      No matter the spelling, what's important is people get what it wants to convey

  • @randomstuffwithnofluff7472
    @randomstuffwithnofluff7472 2 роки тому +5

    Why the color yellow on the map for Asians and Black for African americans....just kidding, I'd color it the same way lol.

  • @TexasTimeLord
    @TexasTimeLord Рік тому

    Superb

  • @EdgedShadow
    @EdgedShadow 2 роки тому +1

    Should do a video on Delaware's border. It's super weird in places, like the circular area at the top (apparently mapped out using a church as a focus point) and the Delaware wedge to the west.

    • @nickhill8612
      @nickhill8612 2 роки тому

      Do you know about the Kentucky Bend?
      You have to go into Tennessee to get there.

  • @G0TIMAN
    @G0TIMAN 2 роки тому +10

    3:17 americans view on race will always be too funny for me xD

  • @BalkyBartokomous2525
    @BalkyBartokomous2525 2 роки тому +4

    The large number of Catholics in the Northeast is due to Irish, Italians, and around NYC also Puerto Ricans and Dominicans. Elsewhere in the country, it's due to various Hispanic groups, most notably Mexicans. Re small number of Jews, I think that there are only something like 12 million Jews worldwide, of which around half live in the U.S. In a country of over 300 million, that's not a lot.

    • @j.s.7335
      @j.s.7335 2 роки тому +2

      Best comment. I was surprised at how high the percentage of Jews is in some states, because they are so few in number.