Brit Reacts to Why US Geography Is So Unique

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@deanpreston3603 18 күн бұрын

From Kentucky I am very impressed with your knowledge of the US and Geography of our country. I know you have watched thousands of hours of videos and studied hard, however I really hope you can find time in your life to come to the US and see and experience all you know about.

@jayclean5653 14 күн бұрын

He's been reacting to US things for years now. He better have a grasp on US Geography, lol.

@HopefulKingsFan 12 күн бұрын

@@jayclean5653he said that in the comment bro I think he knows that lol

@buckeyegirl16 17 күн бұрын

Mark twain: the mississippi will always have its own way Army Corp of Engineers: Hold my beer

@speakstheobvious5769 18 күн бұрын

Something to know about Virginia. It used to be illegal to gamble in the state. In Colonial beach they have a restaurant on the shore. A part of the restaurant is over the water. There are slot machines in the part that's over the water because that part of the building is technically in Maryland where it is legal to gamble.

@deltajukejoint1561 18 күн бұрын

The New Madrid Fault earthquake was felt and damaged buildings as far away as Washington DC and created Reelfoot Lake in Northwest Tennessee after the Mississippi River flowed backwards to fill un an area where the earth collapsed.

@aura81295 18 күн бұрын

Learning history in this way is so much more fun than a boring classroom. They are interesting, and I would likely not have found them if you didn't have an interest and react to them. Thank you! 🙂

@Out-Of-Service 18 күн бұрын

Mark Twain was wrong. The US Army Corps of Engineers has diverted the Mississippi River down in Louisiana for decades to stop it from changing course. If they didn't, the river would no longer flow down to New Orleans. It's crazy what human beings can do with enough time and money.

@RogCBrand 11 күн бұрын

The first picture of "Crater Lake" was actually of a Crater Lake in Idaho.

@americansmark 18 күн бұрын

We didn't have those issues with Mexico because we went to war with them over Texas and won. They ceded the land and we agreed to make the boundary a waterway in many spots. It actually worked out for once. But we still have border issues with Mexico. We took 400 meters of their land recently to expand the no man's land between the two countries.

@ZakhadWOW 13 күн бұрын

please provide cited proof of this claim, as Ive never heard a single bit of this.. and I usually try to stay well informed. YOu state it as though they had no ability to resist the grab, and yet is it possible they agreed to it in some way, being probably uninhabitable desert? In any case, provide proof of this wild claim, or retract it.

@americansmark 12 күн бұрын

@@ZakhadWOW no?

@jLutraveling 18 күн бұрын

He is saying . New Madrid wrong. It is Mad- rid.

@deltajukejoint1561 18 күн бұрын

Thank you, thank you. Glad someone else noticed this.

@tejida815 17 күн бұрын

I never would have thought to pronounce it that way. Thanks for the information.

@mintberrycrunch1752 18 күн бұрын

I live in Omaha, and you have to drive through Iowa (Carter Lake) to get from downtown Omaha to the airport lol

@gk5891 17 күн бұрын

The Panhandle of Florida voted to join Alabama, but at the time it had little econonmic value and the Alabama Legislature refused to allocate the funds to pay Florida for the territory.

@ZakhadWOW 13 күн бұрын

one thing the narrator failed to address is why there is a line that runs from the Florida border area stratight across to a similar line in Louisians. Basically the coastl areas of Miss/Sla are remants of old West Florida, all originally Spanish land. That is why Tallahassee was founded where it is.. almost equidistant between Key West and the MIssissippi River. When the 3 western chunks got hacked off, they left the capitol in Tallahassee anyway.

@waltermaples3998 18 күн бұрын

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@ZakhadWOW 13 күн бұрын

Luka is a YT Name btw not his actual name ;)

@codypendragons 14 күн бұрын

There in California. It's not just close. You can see Mount Whitney from Death Valley and you can see Death Valley from Mount Whitney.

@unkeymoo 18 күн бұрын

Vermont! Lmao

@michaeltipton5500 18 күн бұрын

Tiptonville. Sounds like a great place.

@sladestumbo4117 14 күн бұрын

The reason Mexico does not have the exclave issue that Canada and the USA do may be because of the relative lack of water in Northern Mexico . If there was no water, most of these exclaves would be linked to the territory to which they officially belong. Here in Kentucky, we are taught that the Ky Bend exists due to the Mississippi River changing course. The narrator is mistaken when he says that state borders shift as rivers move. The borders are set in stone from the time the state is established, barring additional court judgements or legislation. Kentucky has several exclave strips of land on the northern side of the Ohio because of river movement over time, such as near Evansville Indiana.

@TheBadgertwo 18 күн бұрын

Eh Vermont is just a state away from Maine. You had the right idea, just got your far northeast states mixed up.

@SonOfMuta 18 күн бұрын

5:23 "To the county of the same name" Nope, wrong. There is no Brookly county, it's Kings county

@ZakhadWOW 13 күн бұрын

yes he missed that detail Manhattan is New York County, and Staten Island is RIchmond COunty.

@jimgreen5788 13 күн бұрын

Luka (?), interesting point here about the NYC borough of Queens: it has the title of “Little Earth” because of its extreme language diversity--#1 in the world at 138 in 109 sq. mi. On the subject of the MO section, New Madrid = MAD-rid. The distance between Key West and the westernmost point of the FL panhandle is more than 820 mi./1319 km. In the CA section, the 4th. climatic area was called the "STEP-ee'; I think he was trying to say 'steppe', which is pronounced 'step'. WW1 was from 1917-1921, but it was stated in the VA section that after that war, Alexandria County did something, and 1945 was flashed on the screen.(?!) The TX/NM "oops' resulted in NM losing 942 sq. mi./1517 sq. km. Texarkana is pronounced tex-are-CAN-uh, rather than -CON-uh, since 3 states are involved in the name: TEXas, ARKansas, and LouisiANA. The 4 Corners monument is on the scenically amazing Navajo Reservation, which has land in AZ and NM. Re. the Bering Land Bridge, in this case, the body of water is a 'strait', not a 'straight'. Actually, AK could have 2 more on this list. First, it's the only state with its capital inaccessible by road. Juneau is blocked to the west by the ocean, and to the east by the very rugged Coast Mtns. Second is the town of Hyder, in the Panhandle, or Southeast, which is otherwise served by the State Ferry System, but being east of the Coast Mtns., it’s cut off, making a flight, or 441mi./710km. drive through Canada on the Cassiar, Alaska and Klondike Hwys. necessary to get to Skagway--the nearest other town in AK by road; its mail is flown in from Ketchikan.

@ZakhadWOW 13 күн бұрын

Navajo Reservationextend into Utah south of the San Juan river as well. But also completes encloses the Hopi REservation, and is a huge area of land: "The Navajo reservation covers more land than Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Delaware combined. "

@colinjames7569 5 күн бұрын

I’m American and I learned a lot from this lol

@BTinSF 17 күн бұрын

The first place every British KZfaqr seems to want to go is Texas and to this American who has lived in Maryland, North Carolina, Florida and California, and who has visited all but about 2 states, this mystifies me. Texas mostly has unimpressive scenery (one exception being the Big Bend region), awful climate and politics that few Britons would find compatible. It seems like they all want to try some Texas BBQ, see a rodeo and wear a cowboy hat. And then what? Texas is among the last states where I'd want to live. It's only real attraction for me being the lack of an income tax (but Florida, which I like a lot better and lived in for about 10 years, doesn't have one either). Yeah, it has cheap housing but so does almost any state in the midwest and even neighbors Alabama and Mississippi which also have Gulf Coast beaches. For many Americans the latest hot state seems to be Tennessee and I could live in East Tennessee around Chattanooga.

@toomanyopinions8353 17 күн бұрын

No, the San Andreas fault is just as dangerous as people talk about. It’s just that it’s only that dangerous once every hundred years or so. But there are frequent, less dangerous earthquakes. The earthquakes not along the west coast tend to be big and dangerous, they don’t get the little ones. The west coast is along the “pacific rim of fire. One issue with earthquakes in other parts of the US is that they don’t build their infrastructure to withstand earthquakes like is done on the west coast.

@BTinSF 17 күн бұрын

If you recall, Washington DC had a quake in 2011 that caused some damage to the National Cathedral and a few other structures. It was a Richter 5.8 which probably wouldn’t have damaged much on the west coast. In San Francisco, a lot of the most important public buildings including City Hall, major museums and the Emergency Response Center are now on base isolators (like giant shock absorbers underneath the buildings that absorb earth movement).

@toomanyopinions8353 17 күн бұрын

@@BTinSF yes, I mentioned specifically that infrastructure isn’t built for earthquakes in the rest of the country.

@BTinSF 15 күн бұрын

@@toomanyopinions8353 You did and I was supporting/amplifying your comment. Although I would mention that in the Pacific Northwest on both sides of the border they are increasingly taking earthquake preparation into account as well.

@toomanyopinions8353 15 күн бұрын

@@BTinSF that’s definitely good! But the Pacific Northwest is still on the rim of fire, which is why I specifically wrote “west coast” instead of “California”. Bc I’ve been in the PNW when an earthquake happened!

@Carly_SIU 18 күн бұрын

7:38 I live in the Missouri Bootheel and I cringed at his pronunciation of New Madrid. It's New Mad-rid. Not New Ma-drid. 30:40 The problem with just seceding one state over to another is that the state governments could be quite different from the two states. Not only that but the amount of paperwork would be absolutely ridiculous. I remember when I moved from Illinois to Missouri and I had to change pretty much everything. My taxes were different, I had to get new license's plates, credit cards, voter information, driver's license. It's a mess.

@KyleLeHeup Күн бұрын

Toledo is still Michigans.

@arthurlara4282 14 күн бұрын

Hey you were close!

@jonadabtheunsightly 18 күн бұрын

The US / Mexico border is mostly straightforward now, partly because most of the current border was decided well after the region was mapped and surveyed in some detail, and partly because the power balance (economically, politically, and militarily) between the two countries is very asymmetric, leading to most of the disputes being decided in favor of the US in one way or another. (The Gadsden Purchase is an example of the dispute being resolved economically: the US just straight up paid the Mexican government money to sign over the territory that we wanted.) Historically, there were border disputes along the Texas / Mexico border, but those disputes were resolved by the Mexican American War, which placed Mexico in one of those negotiating positions where you basically have to agree to whatever you have to agree to in order to end the war, before you lose any *more* territory. Canada and America are much closer to being peers, and have been amicable neighbors for longer, so more of the disputes were resolved via negotiation, and some portions of the border were decided before detailed maps existed of the areas in question.

@countertenor5890 18 күн бұрын

Most of these I already knew from different sources.

@claudiaclark6162 10 күн бұрын

The Statue of Liberty is actually in New Jersey not New York

@SuperLOLABC 18 күн бұрын

Hate it when people use miles to measure area

@SrpskoNightmare 17 күн бұрын

Texan here, there actually is some very tiny exclaves on the Rio Grand that both US and Mexico claim. There is an interesting documentary on the cartels using this land to spring board drugs and human trafficking through this point. Texas however officially claimed it using military force and have put up bunkers and watch posts on it and cleared the island of trees so that it cannot be used as a shelter for the cartels.

@ZakhadWOW 13 күн бұрын

one needs to look at the artificial channels and course correction of the Rio Grande from the area near Las Cruces NM to well past El Paso. Some major adjustments/embankments wer made to keep that course form changing

@mrnosaj71 18 күн бұрын

I'm so tired of hearing about the northwest angle MN and Point Roberts, WA.

@denniss5505 18 күн бұрын

I don’t understand why we haven’t corrected this and either sold or just annexed it to our northern neighbor. There’s no real advantage to the US to keep, and this is all based on bad mapping and human error to begin with. This would be a constant inconvenience to Canadian border control as well as those living in the US zone. Seems ridiculous and unnecessary with no upside for US

@SonOfMuta 18 күн бұрын

15:22 It DIDN'T show a different lake

@RogCBrand 11 күн бұрын

That first picture was of Crater Lake, Idaho.

@claudiaclark6162 10 күн бұрын

Alaska is bigger than Texas

@TKDragon75 11 күн бұрын

23:29 Erie doesn't exist.

@JIMBEARRI 18 күн бұрын

Sorry, Vermont is a land-locked state. It doesn't have a seacoast. There is no way it could be the closest to Africa.

@epongeverte 18 күн бұрын

The USA defeating Mexico in the Mexican-American War, with all of Mexico possibly to be merged with the USA, allowed the USA to define the border. What the USA didn't want was left to be the country of Mexico.

@BTinSF 17 күн бұрын

Except that it didn't resolve all the issues, hence the GADSDEN PURCHASE: "The Gadsden Purchase, or Treaty, was an agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico. Gadsden’s Purchase provided the land necessary for a southern transcontinental railroad and attempted to resolve conflicts that lingered after the Mexican-American War."