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In Florida, the further north you travel the more “south” you get
This is true and Florida might as well be 5 regions
Very true. It's like living in the upside down from stranger things
lol true… weird.
😂 bruh... that's so true 😂😂😂
Yeaaah that’s the best way to describe it. North Florida is more South, culturally. But the further south you go in Florida, the more Hispanic it is culturally. In Central Florida it’s a mix… plus tourists. Lots of tourists.
Not only do you have to get geographic differences, you have to factor in rural/urban areas within each region.
For sure, "flat landers" are different than "fudgies" and are different than "mountain men" vs country vs city vs.....etc.
indeed. it looked like he (original video) had California as one big region which is definitely not correct....we in coastal California have different values from inland California.....inland has far fewer people, and most of them are maga. Those are the redneck areas of California lol
Washington is like that too, I learned that when I was in the USN....my first boat USS Florida SSBN-728 (nuclear powered Trident missile submarine), our homeport was Submarine Base Bangor (I think they call it Kitsap Navy Base now, or something like that, they merged with PSNS)....and then my second boat, USS Asheville SSN-758, was homeported in San Diego, but she was in a drydock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (PSNS) in Bremerton, WA, the whole time (about 9 mo) I was assigned to her.
But the most prominent story is after I got done painting the Vertical Launch System on Asheville one day, and I had been arguing with a nuclear tech on evolution. Now, submariners are all pretty smart in general, and nukes have even challenging training they have to do so they can operate the reactor....but this guy refused to accept that we had a common ancestor with apes and monkeys.
Anyway as we exited the VLS area, this civilian contractor entered and exclaimed to me, in a loud, aggressive voice, "evolution has been entirely disproven!!" (yes, I know it's "disproved", but he said "disproven").
lmao. smh. I would say anything outside of like Seattle is a huge redneck area. PNW to me would be strictly the coastal areas of Oregon and Washington. 🙂 Whenever the submarine was in port, and I had a weekend off, I went to Seattle rather than hanging out in the bars in Silverdale and Bremerton. For one, I don't drink (can't stand the taste, don't want to be drunk). But also, you know, I don't really want to hang out with anti-evolution types. He almost certainly voted for Trump. lol. (this was in 2002, I got out 24 Jan 2003). 🙂
Absolutely... there's a MASSIVE difference between the large metropolitan cities in Texas like Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio... with all the rest of the state. City folk, even when they're born & raised in Texas, are *nothing* like country folk... and YET both country & city folk are without question distinctly TEXAN lol :) (as a native Texan, born and raised in the city but with a very large, mostly rural extended family, a number of which live on farms, this is my lived experience)
@bluflaam777 people in Pennsylvania used to call people from Ohio flatlanders because they didn't know how to drive on hills or something stupid 😂
The wild part about this video is the fact it can be subdivided MUCH further than it was.
He didn't mention the German and Czech colonies in central Texas, for example.
@@randlebrowne2048 And nothing about the many Sovereign Indigenous Nations here
Yeah, and some are outright wrong. He's throwing in northern Alabama and Pennsylvania both in the "Appalachia" category. I've lived in both places. There are NOTHING alike in culture. Not a single thing. All of Alabama and Tennessee both belong in the "south" label far more than Appalachia. It's fairly clear the dude has never lived in either place that made the OG video.
Yes! Now divide up every area by county... which gets divided more by one or maybe 2 cities. The city I lived in was more like 2 cities touching it, somewhat like one, but nothing like the other two.
Boston, New York, and Philly would all argue about not being grouped together for sure!!!
You’re hard on yourself dude. You are very intelligent, your interest and curiosity prove that. You have an insatiable desire to learn and soak up that knowledge. I admire that.
Fun fact: the Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands are the same mountain range; it got broken in half when the plates moved apart from each other.
another fun fact-
the Appalachian accent is more consistent across the East than accents are within those states
and is considered the closest remant to what the original colonists spoke like
@@stephengibbs8342 My People!
And the Ozarks are Appalachia's hillbilly cousin. 😂
Also Scottish settlers
makes sense with the fairys and magic mythology of both places
As someone from the Midwest, I’m surprised by the lack of recognition of the Scandinavian influence, particularly in Minnesota. There’s a lot of pride there in Norwegian and Swedish heritage and traditions.
Yes lots of people have just forgotten about us and don't think we exist anymore no joke from Scandinavian descendent
My husband is third generation Norwegian and it is a huge part of the country, simply overlooked
Like we are literally home to a replica Viking ship, the Hjemkomst. We had lefse as a key element at every Thanksgiving dinner (Dad was particular about getting locally made). I've even tasted lutafisk (shudder). Scandinavian culture is huge in MN. Plus I'd argue there is a unique element to MN, geographically, as well compared to surrounding states. While we may not have deserts we do have almost every other kind of landscape you could ask for from the ocean-like Lake Superior to tall cliffs to grassy plains to the Mississippi.
Lots of Nordic in the region. Swedish and Norwegian in Wisconsin and Minnesota and a big population of Finnish in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Charlie Berens would be appalled!
You're not dumb. What you think of as big words, are just words that are part of our American and regional history and vocabulary, therefore, more familiar to our ears.
Just like your UK dialect, you have many common words that take some of us USA folks a bit longer to understand. You are doing very well, Luis, I wish many people in the UK were as open minded to understanding our differences instead of criticizing, all "Americans" as the same. ☮️🇺🇸🇬🇧
A dumb person doesn't try to learn anything. The fact he goes out of his way to educate himself about subjects outside of his comfort zone and foreign to him (literally in many cases) proves the title of dumb doesn't suit him. Seems he just needs a bit of work on his vocabulary and he'd be just fine.
He’s smart and picks up on discussions pretty quickly. He seems to catch a lot of details fast. This video has A LOT of information being spoken very quickly. A geography teacher could take this video, break it down and teach it over an entire school year.
It would be nice if the original video guy posted an outline of the Appalachian mountains while talking about the region. He could "show, don't tell," more.
@@bl8388
I have to agree, that area, not easily defined by perfect boundaries, gets skated over rather quickly in a heck of a lot of geographical resources. With no clue of the Scot and Irish immigrants, and other influences from the Louisiana great mixture of influences. Appalachia is just so incredibly unique, even holler to holler . And kin to kin. My blue collar Dad , #8 of 10, from Alabama, gave us a love of traveling, by car, before interstates. We lived in Detroit, but traveled all over the south by back roads. What a great gift to me and my sisters . Amazing people all over this country. And it was two Scots that sailed here to measure and dig the Mason-Dixon line. Mr. Mason and Mr. Dixon.
The guy talks really fast too.
As an American, I love watching these because it’s so refreshing to see people who are actually learning about the US instead of just assuming we’re all overweight karens/kens with a southern accent and a burger in hand. The US is insanely large and very much a mixing pot of religions, cultures, and people.
It's not "karens/kens", it's "Karens and Richards".
@@trplankowner3323 There’s many variations, but I’ve seen Ken the most often.
@@MoonlitBookworm73 Ken is that thing with no balls riding around in Barbie's pink car.
That a$$hat acting like a Karen is a Richard, because he's acting like one.
Which is why it’s an insanely bad thing that our government has gotten so big. There’s always going to be someone that wants to tear the system down cause you can’t please everyone here
Thats why its better to let states make their own laws and govern more independently. A smaller government is necessary, but we most likely will only see more and more control to smaller and smaller groups of people. @Taylor-rw4le
Louisiana was a French territory, and some of the Acadians who were expelled from Canada by the British during the 18th century moved and settled there. Vermont was also part of New France and was ceded to the British after the French and Indian War. New England has also been the recipient of French Canadians immigrating from Quebec during the 19th century.
I studied French in high school in New Hampshire because we had a lot of French-Canadians living in our area.
Not to mention that Louisiana was a part of the Louisiana Territory which the US purchased from France.
The French controlled the Mississippi River up past St. Louis.
@@RandyGardnerJr Yes, but the US didn't buy it until 1803, when Napoleon needed money to finance his attempted conquest of Europe.
And the word "Acadian" eventually became shortened to "Cajun".
Bro, America has so many cultures it's like going on a field trip whenever you travel out of your own state because you don't know what you'll come across culturally. Personally, I still learn about my own country daily and stand by our multi-cultural society.
"..it's like going on a field trip whenever you travel out of your own state". Or even within the same state. Take my state Illinois.
Quincy and the Quad Cities might be similar as western river cities on the Mississippi. Peoria on the Illinois river is similar.
However these are different from the central flatland places like Effingham, Springfield, or Champaign.
Which are in turn very different from the southern Illinois places like Carbondale, Cairo, Harrisburg
Which are nothing like the Metro East (the Illinois suburbs of St. Louis) like Alton, Edwardsville, or East St. Louis.
And of course none of these are anything like Chicagoland where 2/3 of the population lives. (Which itself could be subdivided many times.
@@edwardofgreeneso true! I also live in Illinois. I'm outside of Chicago. Once you get outside of the cities there is so much farmland. Southern Illinois is beautiful but definitely different from Northern Illinois
Sometimes (mostly) it's different in your own state too
@@edwardofgreene 😂 came to say this. When we take our kids somewhere it’s like a whole field trip every time. Never know what your gonna see or hear what will happen
You're not slow, man -- this is a dense bit of information without any labels on the map to focus your attention. The video you're watching is good, but not easily digestible. Good on you for trying to take it all in.
I noticed that the video barely used any graphics cues to each point it was talking about that could have clarified it and made it easier to take in.
Yeah, I like this guy! He’s so enthusiastic and funny. ❤
Your said it will that it is good but not easily digestible. I'm in the South (South Carolina) and it explained this region well.
@@ritayprice3510 The guy is very down to earth and is funny. Very likable person.
@@ritayprice3510 the information itself is fine, but some additional graphics could help people to follow along with it.
As an Alaskan, I'm just glad we got mentioned.
You were in the PS.....
The French in the south is because France once owned the center portion of the US which most in Louisiana. The US purchased this part of the country from France. The descendants of the original French settlers are still there.
Also Cajuns are the Acadians who were forced to leave Canadian/New France when the English took over.
Interestingly, I spent a little time in Quebec in a little mining and fishing town along the St Lawrence Seaway. I noticed that their music was identical to rural Cajun music of S. Louisiana. I mentioned this and was told that the people there had been Acadianin Nova Scotia, had migrated south to settle along the Mississippi River all the way down to French Louisiana where they became "Cajuns". A certain portion of them later returned to Canada and now they call themselves "Cayennes" (not sure of the spelling)
I need to refresh up on the Louisiana Purchase again. It's been a minute and the details have gotten fuzzy...
@LiberPater777, my memory is a little fuzzy too. But seems like the US bought the land for $1 an acre or something like that? If someone knows it the right amount, please feel free to correct me.
@@rockandrollfantasy86 Exactly this. Most of my Louisiana ancestors have Cajun ties, and they all first settled in Port Royale in Canada before they were forced out.
Good for him for actually listening and trying to understand unlike most people who just assume they know everyhting about the US despite never living there.
I was raised in Appalachia and when I toured Ireland I was floored by the cultural similarities, particularly in the friendliness of the people. The
Irish music was nearly identical! Foods were very much alike.... but of EVERYTHING, it was the true friendliness of the Irish that touched me the
most. If you asked someone a question they really took their time to answer you... I felt like I was home but yet I wasn't. I loved my travels all
over Europe, but nowhere did I feel a kindred spirit than in Ireland, particularly the southwest coast and central parts of the country :)
That's cool. I haven't spent much time in Appalachia and I've never been to Ireland. Hopefully I will get to check both out.
That is because the Scotch/Irish settled in the Appalachias.
I’m Irish American and I’ve been to Ireland as well. I’ve lived in KY since I was a kid and you’re right about Ireland and Appalachia being very similar. ❤
In school we learned that when you look at Pangea the Appalachians connect to the land mass of Ireland so the Irish settling there would be right in feeling at home because the lands millions of years ago were one.
Two Irishmen did the best southern accent of any non-southerner I have ever heard. It didn’t take a lot for them to slide into the accent.
When he says a lot of these beautiful places are “largely underdeveloped” outside of the major cities, it’s either due to climate or a National Park, and they are quite vast.
Yup, West is full of national parks. It was a way politicians stopped settlers to the west from becoming self-sufficient. The old families of the east were threatened.
Reading everyone’s comments, it reminds me how much I love this country. What a crazy, wonderful mix of humans.
The Pacific Northwest region, when he talks about it being under developed he is speaking to the large amounts of nature and landscape that are not just ripped out and bulldozed over. This region geographically is known for its lush forests and trees, specifically lots of pine trees and evergreens. There is also a lot of maple and oak and autumn is very gorgeous because of the changing leaves. He didn’t mention this, but this region has a strong presence of Native American indigenous roots, especially in WA. The PNW also has unique coastal culture. The weather in the PNW experiences all the seasons without any particular extremes but notably is known for its rain and storms. Those of us who live in this region like nature and doing outdoors activities, don’t mind being cold and the most common outfit worn is jeans and a hoodie. I have heard from my English friend that our weather and temperature is similar to the UKs.
I am from Washington State, and I agree with what you said.
Yeah, the video really failed to encapsulate Cascadian culture. We have extensive national parks and otherwise protected wildlands. For being "underdeveloped" the region punches well above its weight economically.
reporting in from the LC valley (Lewiston, ID and Clarkston, WA), can confirm everything! we got CCI Speer, Schweitzer to the north in Moscow, ID (locals are very keen to tell you it's pronounced mos - co, as in co-op specifically to differ from Russia)and just east into Orofino is Nightforce Optics and the entire area is so pretty! :D
Oregonian here. The typifications are accurate. There is a lot packed into the region. It's the best match I've seen to the 'Cascadia' concept, as well. The Alaska Panhandle and British Columbia are the same bioregion.
Yeah, and the Seattle/Tacoma Port complex is one of the only two bluewater container ports on the US Pacific coast that can handle the LARGEST ships in the world (the other being the LA/Long Beach complex). It’s not as big as its neighbor to the south, but it’s no slouch either.
Appalachian here - nice to see the region described more accurately
Sure is.
Yes, that was unusual. Many are clueless to its origins.
Agreed. Except for the narrator’s pronunciation of Appalachia. 😂 That was very disturbing.
@@cuteutgirl04 lol I was about to comment that too. You can always tell when the narrator isn't from Appalachia 😅
What is the proper way of saying “Appalachia”
Hi, native New Englander here. Boston is very much culturally apart of the New England region, as is Rhode Island and Connecticut. Upstate New York is closer in culture to either the midwest or applicia depending on what area you are in. A lot of people from New England go down to Florida to retire or become part year residents (during the winter) when they get older so culturally, central Florida is pretty similar to the north. His video felt like it was written from the perspective of someone who spent a bunch of time at the library researching a topic and not from the perspective of a native.
Part of the reason for such drastic regional differences is historically, the mountains really segregated the US into extremely distinct settlements. We have 2 mountain ranges that run north to south inland from each coast. The climate is totally different depending which side of the mountains you're on in both coasts.
And a river that basically splits the nation in half (the Mississippi).
We have far more than two mountain ranges.
However, we have two areas one East and one West that have several distinct ranges running from North to South.
These two areas separate the East and West coasts from the interior regions of the country.
@@jonok42 probably should've said 2 sets of mountain ranges, but I was trying to explain it simply
Fun fact, Louisiana does not use British common law tradition, but has Louisiana civil lae modeled on the French Napoleonic Code. The other 49 states use common law. Also Louisiana calls their counties "parishes". The U.S. has so many regional peculiarities.
Due to a strongly Catholic intertwining with government during the early years, the regions were divided into parishes by religious control. Then the territorial legislature adopted this and the name "parish" remained.
People from French Canada moved to parts of New Orleans
That makes sense
Louisiana originally being a pre-US colony of the French (named after then King Louis XIV)
@@willk4031And while it makes sense once you know that is the state of affairs, it doesn’t help in any predictive way … like so much stuff in America. How many states were originally Spanish/Mexican, yet Louisiana really is the one exception to the English common law system. Studying for the bar seems to often be like that: when you are focused on a particular state, you can explain any peculiarity, but you can’t approach the state and really predict what the odd laws will be.
Texas was part of Mexico & allowed Americans to settle there but ruled by them. Texas fought and won a war in the 1830’s for its independence from Mexico . For a little time, it was its own independent state before joining the union in 1845.
The ads that say/said "Texas is a whole other country" is completely correct.
Then, from experience in the early 80s, Houston is a whole other reality.
Many Texans consider themselves Texans first and Americans secondarily. Being Texan is much more of an identity than most other states.
The Americans were attacked at the Alamo because slavery was illegal in Mexico, and the contract they had with the Americans said it would be enforced. The Americans told them to F off and imported slaves anyway.
Growing up in Texas, you absolutely had a history class separate from your Texas history class. Equal weight.
@@jasonmarshall4535 I went to kindergarten & first grade in Houston. They start it early! Even our cookies in the lunchroom were shaped like Texas!
9:58 Arid desert is your classic sand/rock with pockets of green, arid prairie is grassland that gets very little rainfall.
13:46 An aquifer is an underground water reservoir. Its what you're looking for when you drill a well.
To all you Europeans who make fun of Americans for never travelling, we can take one road trip across country in an RV and we'll travel more than you will in your entire life, and have just as much cultural diversity as you backpacking your way through France, Germany, Italy, Spain and you'll still be halfway to the distance we've gone...
Oh sure. Like the majority of Americans do that. Please, PLENTY of Americans have not bothered to see that much of this country while Europeans and Middle Easterners travel regularly
THANK YOU…Texas is Texas and THANK GOD he didn’t try to add Oklahoma to that list. Florida was definitely part of the original South the very Southern is quite different
@kristamaeh74 yes the majority of Americans have road tripped or lived all over the USA, or next region. Americans travel.more than Ruropeabs.
@@kristamaeh74 What....and majority of Europeans travel the world? Gimme a f***ing break.
You aren't the cultured, world travelers you claim to be and everyone knows it.
No. We travel as regularly as you do. Probably way more. Like I said, Americans drive across the state all the time. Flying is expensive.
@@kristamaeh74 majority of Europeans don't do that either.
My point is, plenty of Americans travel. Enough that the stereotype is not justified. I'm typing this while in my car after the 200th mile today.
7:55 No, you're right. This guy is speaking fast and fitting a lot of information into long sentences. As a native American English speaker, I find myself pausing the video to take it all in.
Yep. I agree. I’m an avid reader and don’t struggle with words but this really is a bit too much.
@@AngelaVEdwardsthis! I understood absolutely everything he said perfectly fine but his pacing made me feel like also needed a breath after the video 😭
Yes, and he's speaking fast with an American accent, which is one more layer. It would probably help Louis to also READ the transcript, so the pronunciation would not throw him off.
Yeah, I’ve lived in several of these regions and part of my job includes explaining the different parts of the US to people who have moved here from another country (“You’re right, you do hear a lot about Americans being very Christian, but that’s especially here and here and here, and in our city you will find that many people do not attend church on Sunday or perhaps aren’t even Christian at all…”), so I’m more likely than almost anyone to find the video easy to understand and yet I definitely had to pay attention! 😅
East Texas is more " southern" while west Texas is more "South Western"
As a Texan if Texas can't be its own region it can divided between 3 regions everything above DFW and Fortworth is great planes while west Texas is southwestern and east Texas is Southern.
Isn't Fort Worth part of DFW ( Dallas Fort Worth) ?
It's known as Cowtown, and said to be "Where the West Begins" @@spicycopper2436
As an American, one of the reasons i haven't traveled outside the country is because there's still so much i haven't seen of my own country. There's a lot to discover and learn and see in just one country. Each region really is like its own country.
Seriously so much to see and do
To explain the french being in the south (Louisiana) its because the louisiana purchase was from the french, the settlers of the region didnt all just up and disappear when it was absorbed into the united states in 1803
Also remember the influx of the Arcadian who influenced the subculture and whose name became corrupted into Cajun
Also after the Haitian revolution many ppl moved to Southern Louisiana.
All of which blended into a wonderful mix of cultures.
Hence the confusion about Cajun vs Creole while both are largely french
To this day, N.O. has 3 "Quarters"; French, American & Spanish.
I'm an old guy who's learned this from riding my Harleys over a million miles coast to coast north to south...but you make it fun to watch your face is so expressive can't wait to see your content whenever you get here ... Hurry up I'm almost dead
Nnoooooo!!!!! Don't say that!
😂❤😂 ❤
Top tier comment
Same! 54 here. He needs to come. I love his comments. Not a big fan of him knocking himself though. Your not dumb bro. You just have different experiences
Funny man. "Hurry up, I'm almost dead" 😂
He put Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut in the mid-Atlantic region. As a New Englander and a ri-er, that is a slap in the face 😂
I know, that really threw me off. Those are definitely New England states and I've never heard anyone try and say otherwise before 🤷♀
He included Missouri in the South, but not Kentucky and West Virginia. As I was born in WV and raised in VA, I'm somewhat offended. The KY and WV accent is not that different from the true VA accent.
Especially to the rest of the Mid-Atlantic.
@@chrispavlich9656 We are not New York.
@@karaevans6215 Neither are the rest of us.
I appreciate the Presentor’s humility. That is an appealing quality and useful to one who seeks to learn. 😊
Intelligence and education are not the same. I watch your content because I find you intelligent and entertaining. The fact you're taking the time to regularly continue educating yourself about things you don't already know or understand is proof of your intelligence. 💜
I was born and raised in the Appalachian mountains in Kentucky. When we moved to Detroit it was like being in another country. Talk about culture shock!! Phew 😮
There was a huge migration of Appalachians to detroit in the 1930s, to the 1960s, to escape poverty.
@@jeriandersen4205there was also a sizable migration to other cities like Chicago too
This was our situation as well. My parents were from farmers and Cotton pickers. They left Northern Alabama to Pontiac Michigan to work at GM. Funny thing, we are now back in the south because of The Saturn car plant, now GM. There were a lot of Michiganders who struggled to assimilate into Southern culture. But I felt right at home in Tennessee.💗
Something I feel is worth mentioning that the video missed is how agricultural CA is, it produces over 1/3 of the country’s vegetables and nearly 3/4 of the country’s fruits and nuts, so unsurprisingly it is the largest producer in the U.S.
That right! California supplies the nation and even the world and is the US biggest grower of food.
It also is worth to note that the plains/bread basket also exports around 17-20% of it's grain (wheat/corn/etc.) to the rest of the world. EU does import a lot from US in this amount too. CA also supplies a lot of international export too.
I don't understand how that is possible when CA doesn't even produce 25% of the total of the top 10 states of agricultural production.... making up 3/4 when you don't produce 1/4 of the total of top 10 producers seems extremely far fetched
And in this video it says region 6 produces 40-60% of all US agriculture....
And at one point, California grew more rice than China
I personally think this videos is a summary and of course you could find even more sub-cultures within these cultures. Not an easy endeavor, so Kudos to the person who put this together.
florida is geographically southern, but culturally its a mix of latino cultures as well as having a lot of older northerners that resettled there. its culturally different to the rest of the south. it also has had a lot of spanish influence in its early colonial history.
The northern half of Florida is still culturally southern. I'm a GA girl, but my dad's half of the family is from northern FLA. Their southern accent isn't as obvious as mine, but culturally they're still southerners with their own regional flavor.
I live in Northeast Florida (Jacksonville) Trust me they are country af here. southerners all the way. Florida is the only state that the further north you go, the further south you get.
@TanyaQueen182 Totally agree. I live in Florida, and the upper part of FL is southern. The rest is its own entity, and the southern part of FL is heavily Latinos.
Daytona Beach here, originally Orlando. Not a lot of people with southern accents. It's a melting pot where I'm at.
All of what they have said about Florida! The mid is a melting pot. North FL is still relatively southern. South FL is absolutely mostly Latino. But the mid area is mostly "transplants", or as my dad calls them "Q-tips". 😂😂😂
The Cajuns came from Acadia in Canada. The British threw them out. The word "Cajun" comes from "Acadian".
Didn’t the U.S. purchase Louisiana and most of the Midwest from France. And during the the time the French owed that they shipped their sick, criminals and anyone they didn’t want in their country to Louisiana.
They didn't just throw them out, they stacked em like cordwood in the bellies of ships and sent them back to Europe. Then those same people returned to the south and also some back to Acadia
I'm descended from Acadians from Ilse St. Jean, now known as Prince Edward Island. They left Acadia and sailed to near New Orleans and settled there. Eventually ancestors moved to Texas where I was born only to move to Alabama where I live now. Now I understand why I love cajun food so much.
@@Rhasha00 my mom's dad was from Canada, and his family moved down to Texas when he was a child & started a farm. What's funny, is my dad's mom was the first in her Finnish family to be born in the US - but practically Canada - in Michigan UP and my dad started dating my mom when he was stationed in Texas while he was in the Army :) so while my large extended family is very much Texan, most my immediate family are relative newcomers in the big scheme of things
This is so interesting. Love you guys
Never underestimate yourself.135k subs, good content, learning as you go. Your doing better than 80% percent of the pop.
It is a lot because the speaker brings up geographical land marks (rivers/lakes/mountain ranges), religions (some of which do not have a large global presence), and cultural heritage all in a single breath.
‘How the States Got Their Shapes’ is an interesting series.
Yup indeed it is
This was a history class lesson. I think migrations have had more influence on culture than the nationality of the original settlers.
@@lizadedeaux
“Settlers?” We indigenous “Americans” would argue those “settlers” were colonizers!!
@LynetteA68 ok then migrations have more influence on the current culture than the indigenous populations, is that better? Wow you really went out of your way to be offended, the video was about dividing the u.s. into cultural areas, and migrations have had an influence as well, including forced migrations of natives and former slave migrations to the north. Are the indigenous populations of the west native to those areas, or were they forced to migrate? That was the only area mentioned as having an influence on the current cultural designation.
@@lizadedeaux original settlers never made a real culture to begin with ngl. And your comment isn't really related to "How states got their shapes" since you basically turned it into "How states got their cultures" °>°
So many German immigrants early on --- there was a moment in U.S. history where there was a debate about whether the country's primary language should be English or German. I don't remember the details, but if I remember correctly Benjamin Franklin was involved in this "discussion."
Oh, and btw, when people say that America doesn't have a culture, I always respond that "Well, small correction: America doesn't have Western European culture. That's true."
But there is a lot of diverse culture. Influenced strongly by Mexican, Native American, Asian, Scotch-Irish, German, Scandavanian, African, Spanish.....It goes on and on...."
No, there was never a debate over whether the country’s primary language should be English or German. The United States has never had an official, recognized national language, so “primary language” just means the language that most people use, and German-speakers have never been anywhere close to being a majority of Americans. There was a time when there were enough Americans whose first or only language was German, and there were significant enough geographic pockets of these German Americans, that serious consideration was given to whether government declarations, regulations, laws, etc. should have official translations and publications in German, but that was still very far from German actually replacing English as the de facto American language, or becoming the language in which national governance and legislation is conducted.
@@markhamstra1083 Thanks for this correction. I've not read about this in a long time; it's worth going back to see why some have said that German was poised to be the primary language.
Iowa and Minnesota had a large settlement of Swedes. The church I was baptized in was originally called, The First Swedish Lutheran Church & sermons were held in Swedish. My great grandparent's spoke only Swedish but eventually learned enough English to communicate in English and only spoke in Swedish at home & at church.
They came to America in 1882. They worked on the railroads. More family followed & stayed in Iowa, while others moved to Minnesota(or The Great Woods, as they called it) & were lumberjacks.
@@pamelajohnson7813 Similar story with my great grandparents on my dads side except they immigrated from Poland and settled in northern Wisconsin. Only spoke Polish at home. When my grandmother started school, the teacher only allowed English to be spoken and “Americanized” everyone’s names and my grandmother went from Manya to Mary. I didn’t find this out until many years after she passed. In her senior years, she could no longer speak Polish but could still read and understand it. My mother used to find her birthday card’s written in Polish at a little shop downtown Minneapolis and send them to her every year.
In regards, "German Americans" while German religious & ethnic minorities started emigrating to the United States around 1800, there was a huge wave of more generalized German immigration starting in 1848 in the wake of the widespread European political revolts and revolutions across the German and Italian states. that continued for some decades.
From MD, married a guy who was in the Navy. We traveled the country. Pretty much each state is unique and has cultural differences. Pretty much like going to another country, except everyone speaks english with different accents. The one exception is Cajun french, in Louisiana and the German Amish. They both speak english but also a different language.
Im from the Pacific Northwest. We don't tan, we rust. West of the Cascade mountains for 8 months in a row, it rains almost constantly. You have to stick your head out of the car window to see the tops of our trees.
Otherwise known as Cascadia, yeah we basically are our own country tbh
May I add, the springs and summers here are B E A -UTIFUL on a clear day (like today, 4/20/24)
OH SNAP, I JUST REALIZED TODAY IS MIRROR DATE DAY! 4 2 0 2 4!
My sister lives there and I visit once a year, I love the beauty of the tree's and nature but it does feel like they enclose you. When I get back to Texas it feels so big and open with constant blue cloudless skies.
Depends on where you are in the PNW. We moved here 3 years ago and it doesn’t rain nearly as much as I thought it would. I’m on the coast on the Oregon Cali boarder. I love it.
As a Californian it tripped me out going there the first time. All the structures are built from wood instead of metal. All the yard tools are as much composite as possible. Every morning everything is wet. Metal actually melts.
I finally understood why people wanted California cars.
Happy day🎉. I’m from New Mexico, Navajo reservation. I’m Navajo/Hispanic. Our state is very interesting. It’s called Land of Enchantment. Love your videos. Use your captions while watching videos. It helps me.
Navajo/Hispanic sounds so beautiful.
Also from New Mexico, but Anglo.
@rachelleaguayo5353 Land of enchantment.🙂 I like that.
Native New Mexician as well. ❤❤ mixed "race" all high desert NM! 😊
New Mexican here, as well. Dude did us dirty lumping us in with Texas. New Mexico is practically unique as far as US states go, and his description doesn't give you even a hint of that.
There's a sign on the side of the desert road going through Arizona, I'm pretty sure (can't remember exactly which state we were in) that reads, don't stop, don't pick up anyone, it is dangerous you might be experiencing a mirage or picking up a killer... We drove through in the night when it was cooler and it was scary!!! Straight up nothing but desert!
You were in Arizona probably within 50 Mi of the Cook County Jail
@@Myjanma3 This was about 2001/02. I can't believe it's still there
Common around prisons.
I'm from south east louisiana, I have lived in Arizona, Indiana, and Tennessee. None of these states are similar in culture. The part of louisiana I'm from is so diverse a true melting pot of cultures.
There's a sign with that exact phrase west of Las Cruces, NM on I-10.
The US was almost a German speaking country, the initial vote to determine the countries language was quite close
something about distance that Europeans seem to not understand about Americans, in America if we live within 4 hours of some where and are asked if we live close to that place, we'll say yes
Yep. I live in Minneapolis. often drove to Chicago just for the weekend. Europeans would never travel 400 miles for a weekend trip! (That's 650 kilometers for any Europeans here)
@@jilljacobson13Oh, yeah. When I lived in I Falls, the 3 hour drive to Duluth was a day trip for shopping or a rare fancy dinner. The twin cities were what, six hours?, and we’d make that one overnight. Now that I live in New England (you hear that narrator? Boston is New England!), it’s interesting to find that I’m actually not the only one here who will do the 4 hour drive to NYC as a day trip; most people don’t, of course, but there are actual locals who drive like midwesterners.
I live in Ketchikan Alaska. When people ask if that's close to San Fransisco, I say, "ehh, its not far." (Its a 5 hour flight).
Of course its all relative. If I wanted to get to a city in Northen Alaska like Barrow, thats about a 20 hour flight. For perspective, its about 18 hours to London.
Even between Americans this happens. My fiancee is from NH and I'm from AZ. You can drive 10 hours on the east coast and pass through 6 states. Or you could drive 10 hours in the west and cross one state line, MAYBE. She still has trouble grasping the distances involved.
When it comes to a world scale. Americans will stop fighting each other the moment a 3rd party makes a fuss. We are family
One Big dysfunctional family.
@@2myRescues and we love each other for it
Lewis has asked to keep comments non political. 😊
@@lacysnake I was just generalizing . My bad lew and company
So True We are family we can mess with each other but anyone else we all come a running. My Dad was shot down over German in WW2 and spent the year in a POW camp, An uncle in Korea, Brother inlaw in Vietnam, Nephews in afghanistan after 911
I find it funny that he showed Missouri as part of the South in the beginning, but Missouri is actually part of the Midwest (Great Plains).
Missouri is the unwanted stepchild of our area. Some folks say we're northern, while others say we're southern or midwestern. But I think you're correct about it being the Midwest. With some Southern and Northern influences that make it stand out.
My friends from north of here say they consider us part of the South. My friends from south of here say they consider us part of the North. Being directly in the middle of the country and not really feeling like part of a distinct culture is weird.
I'm a Missourian in Kansas City and to me, Missouri is the Midwest but there are a lot of Southern and Northern influences here. It depends a lot on what part of Missouri you are in.
Yeah, that was weird. Literally everything classifies us as midwest, and I can't find a region map anywhere that puts us in the south. We do have a weird relationship with the north and south from the civil war though, where we basically identified with both sides and just started killing each other. We also kept it going longer than anyone else, with groups like the Baldknobbers being composed of northern soldiers, spending the whole next generation going vigilante and running all the southerners off. Midwest is the only classification that makes sense anymore though.
I would say that Missouri - or at least some parts of it - are in a transitional zone between midwestern and southern culture, having lived in WI and IL but also spent years in Southeastern Missouri and time in the south. Saint Louis, KC, etc are pretty solidly midwestern but the closer you get down towards the Bootheel the more Southern it gets.
Oh this is cool! Chiming in from northeast PA here. (We call it northeast PA, even though geographically its more like central-kinda-east. And we land on the northeastern end of appalachia in the video breakdown). If you paint it with a really broad brush, the video is accurate. I'm personally descended from german american lutherans. But yeah. As others have said, it could be broken down so much further than this.
A fun anecdotal example of this was in college when I took some vocal music education classes. My professor was from the midwest, and he told us he had a miserable time teaching chorus when he moved here because there were so many different linguistic subdialects that it was almost impossible to teach diction to the whole group and get them to blend. We have the Pennsylvania Dutch, who are of a German descent with a very particular manner of speech, the coal region which has its own weird ticks... (look up heynabonics if you want a detour into that weirdness). Then you've got the various city accents from people who have migrated to rural areas from New York, Pittsburgh, Philly, Jersey, or the DC metro area... all with their own distinct accents mind you...
I think when people say the states have no culture or no identity, its because we have so many that its impossible to point to one and say "that's what American culture looks like." It's part of why our current social discourse is so fractured... but it's also why I love that this is home. It really is a fascinating and diverse place. It helps that Pennsylvania is a beautiful state. ❤
I lived in NEPA for 4 years… still can’t wait to get back. I love it there.
I love this video and I wish every person who has never been to the United States would watch it. It comes closer than anything I've ever seen to explaining the culture complexity of the United states.
Citizens, too, should see this.
Best description of the US I have ever heard is we are fifty war tribes in a trenchcoat. Lol.
LOL "And.. alligators bruv. Don't forget dem" 😂. 4:15
He's not wrong. 🤷
The contrast between urban/suburban to rural is pretty dramatic around the Seattle area. It can seem pretty wild around election season
West Virginian here! Fun fact: it’s a common saying in our state that “we are the southern most northern state, and the northern most southern state” lol. Culturally we are southern even if we aren’t technically “in the south”
I was born in WV, but raised in VA. I was somewhat bothered he included MO in the South, but not KY or WV.
The only reason West Virginia exists is because a political party needed more votes so they split off part of Virginia. Geographically everything is hard to transport in WV, and the state lines make no sense in this regard.
@@lordmortarius538 ….the state exists because northwestern Virginia disagreed with seceding from the union and was allowed to become its own state in 1863 after Virginia voted to secede in 1861
@@jeremybrooks7415Missouri is southern culturally….
I'm in the western part of Virginia, that Appalachian area. The reason the Scots/Irish felt so comfortable settling this area is because it felt like home. The mountain range that makes up the Appalachians is the same mountain range that are in Scotland. The TV show Outlander films all of its time in Scotland, and the American part of the show still looks like it was filmed in my backyard. Same mountains. 😊
Also, the amount of German American population isn't a big surprise when you think about it. Back when we were a new nation and writing the first rules and laws, they decided our language would be English by ONE vote. The runner up was German.
We also had a very large percentage of the population that was sympathetic to Germany during WWI. Those sentiments didn't really die in some communities until the horrors of WWII became clear. My grandfather's family in New York stopped speaking German at home when WWII kicked off and all the men in the family joined the US Navy.
Cincinnati, the city I grew up in, also renamed many of the streets with German names during and after the war. German-American businesses in Cincinnati also removed their signage in German around that time.
Very weird because I am from German decent (not the bad ones) but that my great great grandfather left the "fatherland" because they were doing force conscription for everyone. And they settled down in an area not to far from St louis Missouri because it reminded them of home.. And since I visited the area my family came from in Germany I can say yeah It is pretty much the same.
Yes I live in Western NC so the same Mountains and it was settled by Scots/Irish
You should check out The Great Smokie Mountains and the Appalachian Trail
No one seems to believe me when I say this fact.
Northern Florida is very south. Southern Florida is very different.
Texas is Texas, being Texan myself we dont include ourselves with the South East
Lots of the Gulf Coast is VERY Southern 😂
Texas is too big and diverse to make a blanket description of it. And yes, Texas is Texas. 😆
Fellow Texan here... Texas is it's own region.
The narrator didn't include Texas as part of the South.
@@user-zk5rt3gb3e no, and intentionally so... because much of the world sees Texas and how we Texans are often portrayed, and considers us to be part of the South
This is very interesting. You post a lot of very cool videos. As an American, I can say that this does capture a lot of the broad generalizations of cultural regions. You are not stupid; I couldn't follow a lot of it, because he did speak quickly and use a lot of high level vocabulary.
I just found this guys page, but I love how humble he is. It’s endearing 😂❤
Texas also has its own independent power grid from the rest of the federal systems.
Texans are still emphatically independent, but the severe cold weather that has been encroaching on the people make that grid vulnerable, as seen a few years ago.
Lewis, lol, you totally crack me up...how you laugh at yourself. You have a wonderful genuine soul... I love that about you. I understood everything he said, however, I am American, that makes it easier...and I taught American History. Sending love from Wyoming (population of only 586,000!) 👍🤠💌
As to the German-American piece, that's definitely a thing. When Queen Anne allowed the Palatinate immigrants both asylum and a chance to settle in the colonies, they took her up on it. In 1709 alone, over 15,000 immigrants left the Palatine region (Rhine River valley) and the British government helped them settle in the Americas.
Fun fact, the TX state flag is the only flag that can be flown at the same height as the American flag because TX was its own country.
Fun fact, there is a Texas Embassy in London.
All state flags can be flown at the same height as the us flag but the US flag can never be lower
@@bruceabrahamson2841 Interesting. Thanks!
@@bruceabrahamson2841according to law you are correct. According to etiquette it is not proper for state flags to fly equal to American flag other than Texas
@angella7576, THANK YOU!!!! You are SO correct!
Oh, we have culture in spades! This is a pretty broad breakdown. If you go state by state city by city, you really see how many different cultures and traditions make up our country.
It's difficult to explain to a European, but what they see as "no culture" is really just a very young culture that is still heavily influenced by the various cultures it came from. America has its own culture, it's just difficult to see when in one area the French influence is hugely obvious and in another the Cuban influence dominates, and so on and so forth.
I live in metro Detroit. You can break down culture by intersection. It’s bananas
@@Adri_Unsung Hey almost neighbor! Cleveland girl and yes, it is practically street by street…. Little Italy, Slavic village…. This is just a small sample.
During and after the 1848 Revolutions back in continental Europe, there were millions of Germans who, because of the political and economic strife, emigrated away from Germany. Because many of them were political and religious refugees, they became a very important part of the northern state's push to end slavery, and many Germans who fought in the 1848 revolutions also fought in the American Civil War against the rebels.
But some of us came way before that. My family were Reformed Christians living in the Rhine Palatinate. Religious persecution followed and my ancestors left and found themselves in the Hudson Valley near Claverack NY and we settled amongst the Dutch living there. Early Germans following the Dutch Reformed Church around 1700. Odd how things turn out.
The fact that you’re curious and want to learn, is indicative of the fact that you are not unintelligent- you are very intelligent. There are a lot of things that I don’t know about, but I want to learn about it, and so I study about it. It doesn’t mean I’m stupid. It just means I don’t have the vocabulary and I don’t know the context, but your curiosity, in and of itself, is a fact that tells me that you’re a very smart person!
14:46 as a 4th-gen German "immigrant" living in Michigan, yeah, there's a whole lot of us up here
Same. Everyone has a bit of German here it seems. Even if only a sliver.
12th-gen "German American" gang 👍🏼
I'm the first generation born in America and I love how many Germans are here. 🥰
Something like 1 in 6 Americans have German ancestry and 1 in 5 Irish. I’ve got both as well as French-Canadian, Scotch-Irish, Swedish, English…
In Pennsylvania we have our own dialect of German still spoken as a 1st language in many rural towns
FOR all those that say we have no culture😂...
We are the world. I myself am... French, British, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Russian, Polish.😂😂😂 I'm a mutt. Very diverse, intelligent , friendly, and very loyal😁. My family started arriving in the 1620's and is still "mixing it up"!😂
I'm English/British, French, German, Swedish, Irish,
My mom was born in Sweden and moved to America when she was 10. My mom's dad is Swedish and my mom's mom is American being English, Irish
@@austinsinger7565 Im Italian ,Irish, British, German, Finnish, Spanish, and Dutch
Same, my ancestors have been here since the Mayflower. According to Ancestry.DNA, I'm English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, and Lithuanian. I have ancestors who fought in every American war, sometimes on both sides. One ancestor left his daughter here in America, packed his bags after the Revolutionary War, and moved back to London.
We always called our family Heinz 57 after the sauce with so many ingredients. English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Native American. My ancestors also came in the 1600's. They fought in all the wars including both sides of the civil war.
The reason you hear German American and Irish American so much, is because when America was expanding in the 18-19th century the German brought us some of the well known parts of schools like kindergarten and physical education. The Irish brought us our workforce, better pay for workers and our industrialization. However, both of these places brought us different well known foods throughout the US
Edit: I’m in 8th grade and live in the most boring state… Kansas
As someone who has traveled to all 50 states, I feel fairly confident saying Nebraska has you beat.
Not by much, mind you! Still more boring than Kansas 😂
Also during that time, there were a lot of poor farmers in Ireland and Germany. Source: my ancestors were broke Europeans.
@@theresahikes1241 There was also a failed political revolution in Germany where a lot of political dissidents ended up coming over (the 2nd phase of German immigration) where they tend to be more socialistic and secular than the earlier religious Lutheran immigrants.
@@amandaski fair! I don’t hear much coming from Nebraska now that I think about it😂
@@mikvan9849 My European history is not great, but I'm apparently descended from a lot of German-speaking peasants looking for a hand up in the late 1800s at the time when the railroads were expanding settlement into the US Midwest and West and the Homestead Act was offering free land to people who settled on it and farmed it.
You did this a while back, so you probably won't even see this comment, haha. But this video you're watching did a much better job than many others at describing the regions...mostly because he didn't get into stereotypes of the regions. He just gave real, factual information. (I've lived in several of these regions, and learned about others, partly by my own travel)
OH, and the German part. yeah, MANY of the early immigrants (1700's into 1800's) were German. My last name Smelser was originally Schmeltzer, before coming over here in about 1770.
Never forget the gators man they can run as fast as a human for short distances, and can climb a six foot wood privacy fence lol.
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Texas and Alaska are the largest producers of Oil and Natural Gas in the U.S. This gives them strong economies and since Texas can produce both meats and agriculture enough to feed it's own populace, it could virtual be it's own country and not be dependent on others. As it was for 10 years after it fought for it's independence from Mexico and before it joined the U.S.
North Texas needs to invade the southern texas!
Fought for its independence from Mexico so it could keep its slaves. Never forget that Texas is the only state to secede from two different countries in order to maintain chattel slavery.
In the current time period, Texas on it's own would be very vulnerable. If it seceded from the union it would loose Federal support, military(the federal government would come in and remove all it's military), no social security or medicare, etc. Only a very few would be rich from all that oil and gas. Thousands of people would leave the state. Then the US would just come in and take it over again. Same with Alaska. It would be very vulnerable to attack from Russia. or China.
Texas can’t even provide sufficient electricity for itself, despite being so independent minded that they declined to connect sufficiently with the grid so that the rest of the country could send them power when they need it. A lot of the “Texas could be its own country” talk is overblown, misinformed bragging.
@@darwinsjoke Dont you effing lie!
As a New Englander, I never noticed the dog shape. Now I can't unsee it. I really like it! ❤
I'm curious that he said Boston was mid Atlantic. I've always thought of Boston as New England.
@@amykeast7789 Boston is definitely in New England (north eastern U.S.). I live about 1hr 30 minutes north of Boston. Yep, we go swimming in the North Atlantic. Lol... Canadian's might consider it mid Atlantic.
I live 1 hour from NYC and an hour from Boston in Southern New England.
Boston is definitely New England …NYC is Northeastern. I am French/Irish/Scotish and my family has been here since the Revolution. (Loved the dog comment)
Yep, all of this. As someone who grew up on the North Shore, it'll be a cold day in hell before I voluntarily align with New York, and I don't even care about baseball.
New York was originally New Amsterdam, and our 8th President Martin Van Buren was a native Dutch speaker (ty from the comments for the edit)
Dutch*
@@someoneyoudontknow7705 or Deutsche?
Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd president. Van Buren was the 8th president.
The pacific northwest is one of the most beautiful places. From Portland oregon, you are 1 hr from the beach, 1 hr from year round snow skiing on Mt Hood. 4 hours from the high desert. 8 hrs to Canada.
I am from Washington State, and I am from 1.5-2 hours from the Ocean, 2 hours away from the mountains, about 2.5-3.5 hours (traffic depending) from Vancouver, B.C.
Did he say Hispanic Americans are a minority in Texas? Like two years ago we (Hispanics) became the majority in Texas as a whole.
Which is a major issue!
@@zerotodona1495 How so? For one thing, you must know that some of those “Hispanic” families have been in what’s now Texas longer than the US has existed. (Texas was part of Mexico til the 1830s).
@@zerotodona1495 Nope. It was Native American/Mexican land before independence and annexation by the US. No worries no one wants to rejoin Mexico. They have bad laws. Texas Independence would be better, but whatever.
@@zerotodona1495 Nope. Texas technically belongs to Native Americans and Mexican (who are also native America). I like non-Latino white folks though. They have contributed so much to Texas and Texas culture and identity. It wouldn't be the same without them.
Invasions don't count.
Mexican-Irish girl from North Texas here- he's right. We have so many cultures and biomes here. Houston has the bayou, San Antonio and El Paso have the desert, Dallas and Austin have the prairies. And as for the population of the Texas region like you asked earlier, my hometown alone has a population of 250,000 people. Texas' population is also more predominantly Mexican, and we have so many ethnic neighborhoods sprinkled throughout. It really is like its own country in a way no other state is.
Have you been to San Antonio? Definitely not desert. We consider ourselves hill country. We have tons of rivers, trees, deer,etc.go toward El Paso for desert
Austin is the center of the hill country. No praries here
The reason we talk of text is part of the agreement between the republic of Texas and the United States was that Texas can secede if we some day chose to. Some people argue that agreement was voided after the Civil War. Texas does have resources to be an independent country. This is very simplified explanation. The subject is hotly debated. The idea of Texas seceding is growing as the political divide of conservatives and liberals are growing.
I agree with this statement! I was born in Houston, but have spent most of my life in the coastal south. Texas is wonderful, and it is different!!
San Antonio is humid, but more desert than Florida and the other southern states. It depends on what you are comparing it to 😂
California is a lot like that, too. There are so many differences throughout the state. So many different regions and people from North to south. And west to east.
Born and raised in the mid-Atlantic area. It is one of most diverse areas in America and I love it.
This is a very good breakdown of regional culture, everything he said was true and it really highlights how much of a "melting pot" America is.
But at the same time, it is still an over generalization.
@@morgan5941 obviously, every individual is different but it shows how geography, religion, and history of locals influenced the culture of the people in that area. America has so much to offer, I think it’s great we have a little something for everyone.
It’s true in the sense that everything that he says has good reasoning behind it, but pieces of what he says are at least unconventional. For example, most Americans would probably put Boston in New England instead of the Mid Atlantic, even though there is a reasonable argument that metropolitan Boston has more in common with New York and Philadelphia than it does with inland New England.
@@markhamstra1083 As a Masshole Boston would never be consider mid Atlantic and would fight you if you ever said they had more in common with NY and Philly lol. Boston is the hub of New England
@@Dublr81 Well, certainly most Bostonians think they are. I’ve known some other New Englanders who aren’t as inclined to make Boston the center of their world. 🫢
You are certainly NOT unintelligent, Lewis! I am American, born and bred, and I don't understand most of what this guy is saying! He speaks too fast as well. For someone not from here, I think you are very smart on all things American. I am very impressed by you. This particular video is a bit dry!
thank you!! thats made me feel much better:)
@L3WGReacts He was using big words, but he doesn't know the difference between a Scottish person and a drink (Scotch)! My grandfather is rolling over in his grave!
@@CurtisKapuswere is that
I agree, I get confused when I watch British TV, especially when they talk about walking in a "corn" field, but the crop is wheat. In America, corn only describes one grain (maze), we use the word grain to describe multiple varieties where the British use corn. Took the longest time to understand that. Thank you, Time Team. LOL
Every time he said scotch instead of Scots I also cringed.
Florida is a mix of everything
I wouldn't go that far, but yeah.
Yeah, pretty much. Lots of just native floridians (born & raised, & some quite southern/country). Lots of older/retired northerners. Lots of Hispanics. Depending on how far north, south & inland. 🥰😉
Northern Florida is the south and southern Florida is new England and Cuba.
Exactly
@momD612 The most "Southern" part of Florida (IMO) would be the Northwest Florida Panhandle. We don't have all the Snowbirds up here, or the many that immigrated from Cuba, like someone pointed out. There are parts down in South Florida that are still classified as Southern, but more towards the center part of the Pennisulia. The coast of Southern Florida (both east and west) is where the transplants tend to migrate.
Lake People, Swamp People, Mountain People, Native Indians, Farmers, Ranchers, Mobsters, Surfer Dudes and Yankees
He sounds like he's reading from the encyclopedia adding whatever information pops into his head. 😂
I'm sure he has notes and is reading them. He isn't wrong at stating the "majors" in each region. It does leave you without some detailed info tho'. But as an 'over-all' view he states accuracies.
He defintely described the regions much more accurately
haha good video but so many big words for me XD
@L3WGReacts would have been nice to highlight the subregions on the map when he was talking about them. He is definitely more accurate than __________ state does _________
As you can see the regions can have more in common than another region In the same state.
He definitely sounded like he swallowed a dictionary.
the french though held louisiana for a good while. it was named after one of the King louis, and the french influence was further strengthened by the expulsion of the Arcadians from newfoundland by the british because they would not swear allegiance to a british king. New Orleans especially is very french influenced, along with some spanish and african and carribean influences. also worth noting, we bought most of the land west of the Mississippi from the french in the Louisiana Purchase.
The Louisiana purchase only involved the lands in the watershed of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Not Texas north to Canada and west to the pacific states, Nevada. Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington New Mexico. Arizona and California. Both Texas and California were independent countries for a time.
Love that this guy validated what I've always said which is that DC, the DMV, and Baltimore are not Southern cities, even though they are below the Mason-Dixon line. Grew up there and lived there over 50 years.
Agree. But there are parts where you can definitely hear a more southern accent.
When I grow up in Maryland I always said that it was geographically the northernmost Southern State and culturally the southernmost Northern State.
And now you know why we can get culture shock when traveling within our own country. I’ve moved from MN, to MA, to KY and it was a hell of an ajustamiento every time.
Hi, Lewis! I'm fairly new to your channel and am really enjoying it! I love all of the positivity you have towards the United States, as it seems that a lot of the time we just hear the majority of the world sling negativity our way. (Don't get me wrong, we deserve some of it) I hope you get to visit the US soon and experience this wonderful and beautiful country of ours. Not sure if you've had anyone say they are from Nebraska or not but that's where I am located. Keep the positivity flowing!
Appalachian here - I come from a mix of German, English, and Scotts/Irish ancestors.
the brits kicked out the Accadiens , those that stayed became Quebecois... many sailed away. new orleans was/is a harbor town, so some Acadians settled there, and became 'cajuns
Is that why Louisiana has so many people that speak French? At least, relative to the rest of the U.S. I mean.
@@joshbull623 Yes.
@joshbull623 Louisiana is part of...wait for it... The Louisiana Purchase. Louisiana was owned by...wait for it...France. Louisiana is named after... wait for it...King Louis.
@@joshbull623Yes. We speak "cajun french". The dialect is different
@@pauladuncanadams1750 Feels like they should teach that in school. I always assumed everything was owned by the British and Mexico then we revolted against the British and beat Mexico in a war and took their land. I vaguely remember the French being the key to our Revolution success but that was it until we tried to team up with Napolean. No idea they had land in the U.S. though.
You are so sweet and funny and make me laugh so hard and I love that you wanna know this stuff so much and you’re so honest with how you don’t know everything he is talking about. It’s so sweet! It is really complicated. I will give you that! You actually make me appreciate this country a little bit more than I have been in the past being an American so thank you.👏😂
When the French speaking Acadians got kicked out of Canada by the British, they went to Louisiana, which had already had a French presence. The Cajuns are their descendents. See the poem called "Evangeline."
When I was in school way back when we read "Evangeline" in school. It made a lasting impression on me.
Exactly! "Cajun" is just a transliteration of "Acadian" in the dialect. The two peoples share the same ethnic root
Cool that you’re blowing up now. You’ve hit a vein for Americans understanding Brits and vice versa. We’re learning you as you learn us. Cheers to the success and hopefully you’re channel keeps going 🍻
Larger cities have their own dynamic. They are separate from the rest: Miami, Atlanta, New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles. They are very individual.
worth noting this is the case basically everywhere in the world
My surname is German, the first born American of our name was in 1746. They moved from New Jersey to upper Louisiana (Missouri) the head of the family went to New Orleans and married 3 sons to the French Aristocrats. From there the lineage is Irish, English and Native American. 300 years later we're still using German words in everyday conversation.
South Carolinian here. Most of what he says about the South and people here is true. Not everyone, but a large portion. Also, a large reason that people don't consider much of Florida the "South" is that it is very different from what we consider the South. It was settled by the Spanish in the 1500s so it has a lot of cultural Spanish influence. Geographically, it is in the South. Culturally, parts of northern Florida could probably considered South, but most of Florida isn't really "the South".
Thank-you for all your videos. I’m appreciative that you are truly seeking to understand America and Americans AND helping us understand England & European countries. I was especially surprised to learn casual conversation with a passing stranger is not an acceptable or common practice.
Seek First to Understand. You’re doing that and I hope when you do visit the US, you’ll feel welcomed. We’re in a small town on the Potomac River, Williamsport, MD. We have all 4 seasons and I can’t imagine living anywhere else. I hope you’ll experience small town life and would be happy to host you for a week.
This is the BEST video that I've seen explaining the regions of the USA hands down.
I live in Minneapolis Minnesota. We have a French Canadian population here. Irish, Scottish Welsh. English. Basque, Spanish and French. Native American. And of course German and Scandinavian ancestry. We also have Hmong and Somali and African American populations. Most of the Density of populations is in the Cities and suburbs. URBAN areas are more spread out and less dense. Thank You.