As a native Floridian from a rural part Polk County, I'm always surprised that people think it's not a southern state, but then I realize that most people stay around the coasts or Orlando when they visit and then it all makes sense. Rural inland FL and north FL is the deep south for sure in a LOT of places

Very informative video! This channel deserves to be bigger

"There isn't much going on other than Walmart and rice" As an Arkansan, I can confirm 😂😂

Im on my way home from a trip through Alabama, Mississippi, andTennessee. I absolutely fell in love with Mississippi- the people, the food, the beauty. I can definitely understand the economical issues they have, but the people I met there were some of the most genuine anywhere. It's actually one of my new favorite states. (Been to 43 so far.)

Not to mention the number of British bands that were heavily influenced by the Blues coming out of Memphis and New Orleans and the hits being recordeed in Muscle Shoals, AL.

Living in NC I can definitely tell the difference in economic outlook compared to even 10 years ago. NC is definitely killing it as of recent... industry of nearly every type is thriving, our climate is typically good (if not a bit humid and hot in the summer and spring) ecology is possibly the most varied of any state in the south, and of course can't forget the food🤤

When it comes to good food and good music, it really doesn't get any better than in the South. I enjoyed this video so much, I subscribed to your channel and tapped the bell.

Fun fact: Johnny Cash and Elvis are the only two people to be in the halls of fame for 3 different genres of music (Country, Rock, and Gospel).

I was on a road trip trough the US 2 years ago. I'm from Germany and the most normal thing here is to grab a few beers at the gas station. So we entered a gas station in NC and I put a few cans of beer on the counter. The lady behind the desk said she has to see "some arrrrr deeee". A few moments later I found out she meant an "ID" and mine didn't work bc she had to scan it. But she used some half legal tricks to get me through and I enjoyed some really awful american beer in the motel. Would recommend!

And for Tennessee: Memphis also has AutoZone, First Horizon Bank, Le Bonheur, and one of the most important children’s research hospitals in St. Judes.

I like how he's very honest in giving his opinions, doesn't try to sugarcoat or deny the bad parts. Honest, and with knowledge. I subscribed!

Sorry man love your videos but I have to do this lol since I'm from Mississippi (specifically the Gulf Coast). Overlooked some major industries in Mississippi centering around the Gulf Coast Region of the state. Ingalls shipbuilding a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman is the second largest private employer in the state (responsible for building a large portion of the US Navy and US Coast Guard vessels) and has been located in Pascagoula since 1938. Pascagoula also has the only major Chevron refinery on the Gulf Coast (not counting Chevron Phillips in Houston). You also have a Kessler Air Force Base in Biloxi which is also a pretty big employer on the coast and the home of the hurricane hunters. Also the casinos have generally been a net positive in Biloxi in reference to the tax base and is a major tourist attraction for people along the gulf coast and across the South. Again I understand you had limited time for the video but come on don't do us like that lol. Love the video though.

I can tell you anyone from VA just lost their mind not being included

Brunswick Stew and Country Boil (boiled food) are two entirely different dishes.

No Virginia, Florida, or Texas?

Being an Arkansan over 55 years, (born in West Tennessee), I can confirm, Arkansas sucks. Take heed Yankees and Californians, if you happen to pass through on our highways, don't stop, just keep on going. Don't be seduced by our pristine lakes, never allow the scenic mountains to divert your focus from your destination, be careful not to be mesmerized by white cotton dancing in a gentle breeze, or the towering loblolly pine trees. Just keep on trucking. We like our state and the culture of its people. We're not real fond of towering steel buildings and acres and acres of concrete. We love the woods and fields where deer, black bear, squirrels, rabbits and many others critters live and play. Ducks and geese circling our lakes and ponds are a sight to behold but definitely not for you. Take your ambitions elsewhere if you think the poor, backwards, hillbilly folks of Arkansas need or want your ideas of a better civilization if it includes all the urban traps of the big cities. If you just want to slow down, be left alone, and enjoy some the greatest beauty of God's creation, then come on, we'll be glad to have you. It doesn't take a lot of money to be happy.

I just love how nerdy this channel is! Fellow nerd here! :D

Love these vids! I am and always have been obsessed with researching info like this. Plus i am a native southerner, metro ATL born and raised! Thank you sir and keep up the good work. Chattanooga is an incredible city, positively love visiting her.

I have lived in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. Typically, the Brunswick Stew I am familiar with, (and prepare often) has been associated with a tomato puree base, and has the consistency of what many would call a "stew", not unlike a beef stew. You can basically put anything in it after the "base", other than seafood (haven't see that yet). If you go to most any grocery store chain in the South, you will find on the shelf, canned Brunswick Stew, and in many you can purchase a gallon of this. Its like a thick soup (potatoes cooking down thickens the "rue"). It is among my top 5 favorite foods. I suppose one could make it any consistency, but if you pick up any cookbook down here it will bear out my assertion. Thanks for the vid Kyle, its always a fun watch to see folks try to describe the South. Its a tough job, simply because it is so varied from area to area. See if you can find a can of the Brunswick Stew (its even good out of a can but mildly sacreledgious to say you enjoy it out of the can). FYI, I have lived in the deep, deep South my entire life (and I am old).

Kyle, another detailed informative and insightful view of this region. Writing to you from Chattanooga as well! So glad to be here and out of the District of Columbia! I also love Visalia! Spent every summer there with my grandparents.

I live in Georgia and I think it's the best state in the South, although North Carolina is cool too. Metro Atlanta and Charlotte are the best. I was born in Birmingham Alabama and grew up in Chicago so I don't think I'm too biased. I do wish I had your Kentucky bourbon collection lol.

Bro, your bottles are EMPTY. If they were full, then yeah for sure I wish I had your bar 😂

From Spartanburg, SC here. Great video, you got another subscriber

Love this, be sure to Road Trip it down to Mobile soon! Thanks for enlightening us more about the Southern States!

Okay, I lived in KY from 1958 to 1981 and from 2009 to the present and I have NEVER seen muton BBQ anywhere, I've had BBQ goat in TX, but in KY the only BBQ I've ever seen is pork, beef or chicken.

So great to find another geography channel! I enjoy your videos, and am always glad to find another geo-freak. :)

Thanks for this video. I’m subscriber and regular watcher. I grew up in KY, lived in ATL for 18 years, lived and worked in SC a few times in my life and traveled for business and pleasure across the southeast. (Oh, and I now live in Austin and have traveled across Texas and back east during COVID). I think you nailed this video. There’s so much diversity across the south and even I can’t reliably place the accents. Food varies widely. And in general people are lovely as long as we all stay away from politics.

Hell yeah! Greetings from Lexington, Sc here ! You went to USC meaning you were only 30 minutes from me for a time! Gotta love it here in SC, and I’m always visiting TN so maybe I’ve seen you before! Keep up the great videos! And I’ll be subscribing! Also Chattanooga and the great Smokey mountains are some of my favorite parts of the south!

My family has been in Louisiana for 300 years and I love hearing about how unique it is =D

I live in the Appalachians in Southeast Kentucky and I like the fact that we experience all four seasons. It would be weird to be in a place like south Florida where snow is almost completely unheard of.

whoa!!! you live in Chattanooga TN. That is where I reside. I stumbled across your youtube channel yesterday. keep up the informative videos my friend.

Awesome as always. Nice to hear your insights on the music of the South

15:45 the interesting thing about Biloxi, MS is that a mayor by the name of Peter Halat ordered the murder of Vincent Sherry and Margaret Sherry to continue the growth of Casinos in Biloxi. Margaret Sherry was trying to run for mayor of Biloxi and had publicly spoken out against casinos in town. People don’t know much about the criminal element that Mississippi had during the 80’s and 90’s. The Dixie Mafia was very powerful in those parts for a long time and was trying to do what the organizations in New Jersey were trying to achieve, benefit from and corrupt the casinos.

Just up the road from you in Knoxville, cheers neighbor, GO VOLS!!!

Great video! Thank you for sharing

So glad I found your channel!

I grew up in South Alabama, my wife grew up in Birmingham. The first time we had white bbq sauce was last year in Caves Springs GA. It’s strange to hear white sauce is an Alabama tradition. The sauce was always red and sweetened with brown sugar when we were growing up.

Atlantan here. I truly believe that Atlanta is one of the best cities in the world! That said, it’s always a lot of fun when I’m watching a movie and I know exactly where the filming happened.

Thanks for your great video!

Talking about Barbecue, we have an outdoor barbecue place along rural US 40 on the edge of an unincorporated place called Mizpah (NJ). To this day I have yet to try the place out. It's called Rick's Backyard Barbeque and Grill. Just the thought of it makes me hungry. As for music, when you mention the Blues, it makes me think of a great song from Led Zeppelin called "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You." Also, you briefly showed a picture from a New Orleans Jazz funeral. As strange as it might sound, I love listening to New Orleans Jazz Funeral music. Anyway, good video. Thanks.

Here in Tennessee we have quite a variety of climate from one area to another. I live in the northeast corner of the state, in the mountains of Hancock County. The weather here is actually quite moderate. True, in the summer we will see a few days that get up to 100 F, and a few more in the 90s, but mostly it doesn't get above the 80s. In the winter we have a couple of days which get down to 0 F or below at night, and quite a few where it drops below freezing, We get a few snow storms which drop a few inches, almost never more than 6 inches, and it melts away quickly because the days almost always rise above freezing. I am able to ride my motorcycle all year around because of this. The weather up here in the mountains is a lot more moderate than what you find in the lower areas to the south and west of here.

In addition to growing rice...Arkansas produces more rice than anywhere else in the world outside of Asia...and being the international headquarters for Wal-Mart, Arkansas is also one of the top five producers of commercially grown chickens in the US, with Tyson Chicken corporate headquarters located in Springdale. Trucking giant JB Hunt has their headquarters located in Lowell, AR. Acxiom, located in Conway, is one of the largest information gathering companies in the nation. Arkansas is also one of the largest producers of soybeans. The area of the state that is the most depressed economically is the southeast, and Mississippi River delta south of West Memphis. That region is a jobs graveyard unless you farm, and holds back the rest of the Natural State. Central Arkansas, in the Little Rock metro (which includes NLR, Sherwood, Jacksonville, Bryant, Benton, Conway, Alexander, and Sheridan) is the largest in the state and is growing. Northwest Arkansas, to include the Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers-Bentonville metro area as well as Ft. Smith, is the fastest growing region of the state in population and industry. It's also the prettiest. Southwest Arkansas, in the Texarkana district is growing too, as is Northeast Arkansas in the Jonesboro metro area. Arkansas is now over 3 million in population. We just need that one big industry to move here that would provide jobs to hundreds or thousands of people. The governor's office has repeatedly tried to get an automobile company to move here, and recently Amazon has opened a distribution center in Little Rock, as has an Eastern European firearms manufacturer.

I really enjoy your videos! How about doing one on the best states for motorcycling. Thanks.

Great video! Glad you like Kentucky and gave it a good review!!

I'm from Alabama I travel the country in infatuated with geography I really really find like minds very interesting. I love this guy

Thought you were kind of dismissive of Mississippi. It's an underrated place and one of my favorite states. I've lived in Atlanta for 25 years - there's work here but it's a just a big suburban sprawl, every neighborhood is the same, not much culture or lifestyle compared to other parts of the South. Pretty samey and vapid. Fortunately Georgia outside the metro is nice.

Yes, I would love to have a bar like yours!

Great videos brother!

The Shed is Ocean Springs, MS is my favorite place for barbecue, and that's coming from a Texan who lives in GA.

I’m very late to this video, but I’m from Kentucky and a good place for mutton is Moonlite Bar-B-Q in Owensboro, Kentucky. Owensboro is a pretty cool river town to just walk on the riverfront. You should check it out some day!

My late father was offered a job playing fiddle and touring with Bill Monroe. Bill Monroe has been to my childhood home. My dad played with many stars and also played bluegrass at the Grand Ole Opry. He played on T.V but never went big because he chose his family over money. RIP Dad. Thank you.

20:50 Perfect touch. I read it in Sorrel Booke's grizzled voice

Can you pls do a vid on the diff accents in the South, then a diff vid on the NE accents? And so on? We all need this, Man. Don’t fail us

Florida, Texas, Virginia

I just found your channel last week and I've been binging your content. I'm a "naturalized" southerner living in east Ga, and a former Nashvillian. I know this video is 4 years old, and I suspect your whiskey shelf has already changed, but might I suggest you try Old Smokey whiskey from the Gatlinburg area. They make some of the best flavored whiskey I've ever tasted; my favorite being Amaretto. Unlike Yukon Jack and Birddog, they keep the alcohol content lower which makes it easier to sip and relax, rather than breathing fire. Keep up the excellent content. Oh, and are they ever going to finish I-24 through Chattanooga?

Went to South Carolina for college. I’m a government subcontractor for AT&T and I’ve been to so many govt bases all over the country so I agree with a lot of your opinions. I’ve always had a passion for geography and why shit is the way it is. Recently, found your page and I’m a huge fan.

Been living in Atlanta for four years and have toured a lot of the South. Gotta say you nailed it; GA and NC are in my opinion two of the finest states in the country today and SC could join those two in a decade or so especially if a city other than Charleston (like Greenville or Columbia) takes it to the next level. If you want friendly people, delicious food, and great music, it's tough to beat the South!

As someone that grew up in the south and have lived here my whole life I’m surprised you don’t consider Florida a southern state. Florida may be known for Miami, Palm Beach, and Orlando. However, we have plenty of southern culture throughout most of our state. Cities like our capital Tallahassee, or Jacksonville are definitely southern cities. Not to mention all the rural communities like Okeechobee, Belle Glade, and Deland. Most of Florida is definitely southern it’s just nobody from the rest of the country ever visit these parts.

Goated videos still relevant and useful to watch 5 years later

I live in NC, but I'm in the mountains and the winter cold can be pretty intense. The winters are fairly short though. The summers here are also not overly hot. But come down out of the mountains and the heat is oppressive.

Born and raised in Central Kentucky. As an adult, worked in Eastern Kentucky and in Louisville. I never encountered mutton BBQ. It was always chicken, pork, and then beef. Other than that, nice video.

I lived for a year outside of Louisville, KY in a house surrounded ny farms. My California born and bread daughter asked me what the farms were growing--I told her "horses." (Actuallly the farm across the street was raising bison. For barbecue, I'm pretty sure.)

Great video. I learned a few things. My dad was an airline pilot from 1950-1978. When flying to Birmingham in the 50s and 60s my dad said if they were off course they just looked for all of the smoke from Birmingham's manufacturing plants.

“You wish you had this bar. You don’t have it but you wish you did” 🤣🤣🤣

I was born an raised in Eastern Ky, I appreciate this video we are very southern people in this area you have a nice collection of bourbon lol an it can get really cold here in the winter some winter's get's mild, there is two region's known in the south the upper south an the deep south I'll always go by the historical and geographical fact's they can't be changed, there will be opinion's regardless but anything below the mason dixon line is southern, a civil war doesn't determine what a north an south state is they was defined states long before that war ever came into existence an there is many points missed or overlook them when many do explain the civil war many misunderstanding's, but if you was to split the United States All 50 state's there is 25 states in North an 25 in the south it's a perfect even fit, so when they did the mason dixon line was on point pretty good of accuracy regardless of it being made before majority of the other states ever was formed, for example the 25 North: would be Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, an the Southern would be Hawaii, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, geographically Kentucky is pretty southern our state is one of the states where the south start's its in the upper south an where I live is known as the top of the south it's also called the gateway to the south I live in appalachia on the ohio river in the historic maysville, mason county, ky the town is known for the national underground railroad the town has alot of southern culture an southern hospitality, if you look at all the states on north east and north west an look culturally an historically you will know kentucky is south, but opinion's will alway's very but the truth fact stand's an can't change but hey thank's for the video hope to see more I enjoyed this 🤠

Mississippi is a treasure too bad most have a negative view but as a native Texan I love the state truly a jewel.

love your analysis

This is an older video of yours, but it's great!

I use this for my Freshman Geo Class and they loved it; please sir make more of these for different regions of the United States!!!!!!

Finally,a non-Alabamaian that doesn't continuously insults us,glad you like the barbecue man.

Great video! You didn't mention AirBus down in Mobile, AL though! The only US manufacturing plant for that company.

I'm just up the road from you, close to Knoxville. It looks like you have a beer (ale) collection going too. Let's go check out one of the many local breweries!

I think it's interesting to read the comments and how many are debating on whether Virginia is southern or not

Louisiana has my favorite food

You're right! I do wish I had your bar

Great video! I too am a westerner who moved south (Montana to North Carolina). And I also prefer South Carolina style BBQ, but who am I kidding I love it all!

I've lived 30 years in Kentucky and I have never been offered mutton in my life at any event, festival, or gathering or any sort. Very confused.

Both Bridgestone and Nissan are headquartered in Nashville. Dollar General is here also.

My roommate is from Maryland and he does boils too. He boils corn and potatoes and adds in shrimp and lobster. Yes there is a lot of old bay seasoning.

great job as usual

Birmingham’s largest employer is UAB, which is ranked in the top %5 of hospitals nationwide. It also facilitates a lot of medical research and its medical school is highly selective and well respected.

The Nissan plant is in canton Mississippi

Tennessee’s winter is NOT cold! In fact, the South has some of the mildest winters I’ve seen, even milder than many places in California. Tennessee is one of the hottest places I’ve lived in. The heat became so bad for me it was longer healthy for me to stay in Tennessee so I left for Colorado. Even summer in Colorado is too hot for me, which is why I’m in Montana now.

Good video btw. From Louisiana. Laissez les bon temps rouler!

What about Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, and Virginia????

I believe you left out Virginia, Florida, Texas, and Oklahoma sir. I know people will argue about TX and OK until the cows come home but VA and FL my dude. Kinda shocked.

Having been born out West (Colorado) but lived in all four corners of the United States (military brat), I can say you accurately described the South. It is such a large area that the term ‘south’ is a little different in each area of the South. My mouth was watering when you described the different foods. They are all good.

I just moved to Kentucky from Massachusetts for college last week, been a massive change

Southerners : *interesting*

Texas, Florida, Virginia, and Oklahoma would like a word

i appreciate you putting a picture of the legend Jerry Garcia when you were talking about music

Love the channel!! You have lots of information. I live in MD and travel to the south every year. South Carolina is my favorite southern state. But, you didn’t mention Virginia or Florida.

What about our horse industry in Kentucky!?

Hello! From Louisville, Kentucky

I graduated from UT Chattanooga and Chatt Town is a great place. Live south of ATL now and it’s nice also, but the taxes in GA are a bit higher than in TN.

Thanks for representing our local area in a smart way.

I'm from bama and we don't usually eat mayo bbq more the vinegar type really.

Southern Gothic Fiction is my favorite type of Literature

Wind chill for today, Christmas Day 2020 in western Kentucky is -5°

Arkansas you forgot Simmons Bank, which is headquartered in Pine Bluff, it was the first bank to have a customer do an intercontinental ATM transfer, which is a huge deal. There’s also a huge aviation aspect here too. Falcon Jet is in the Little Rock Metro and up in Blytheville you have a heavy reset facility for commercial airliners. But most importantly Arkansas Children’s Hospital is one of the best children’s hospitals in the world.