Texas' lower literacy is because we have a lot of immigrants. My niece's elementary school did a trail-run for a math class taught in Spanish. The kids are still learning English, so that score is low in that aspect, but math is universal, so they do a class in Spanish to make sure the kids don't fall behind in that. So far it has been helpful, statistic wise.

Re: Alaska's crime issues: Boredom is a big part. So is going a bit loony from isolation, lack of sunlight, too much sunlight, barely survivable temps, etc. There's also a pretty serious alcohol and drug problem. I had to encourage some junkies to leave my neighbor alone on several occasions. (Previous tenant was their Dealer.)

NYC isn't the largest city, it's the most populous city. Anchorage is the largest city.

Me wanting to see my state, but it was blocked half the time...at least I don't live in Mississippi though 😂

hmm if i remember right it was in the mid to late 1980's where we started to see High Fructose Corn Syrup used in everything we eat or drink...and we have gotten much fatter since.

Fun fact i found out from some of my UK friends they actually got taught in school the 1 mississippi 2 mississippi for counting which i find super fun the forgettable states section made me remember that also on the car incidents segment our roads are ok for the most part we just have so many backroads people here use that are still gravel and dirt that people go down faster then they do highways which most likely causes majority of those wrecks so if u do come down stick to the main roads because its actually somewhat nice down here as long as ya dont try living here plenty of good food as u can tell from the maps and some real nice views

Thanks for the informative video!

Crazy fact Alone California has more people then the entire country of Canada and as for the size Canada. 9,984,670 sq km United States. 9,826,675 sq km

Having driven through Mississippi on multiple road trips to New Orleans (from Chicago) I definitely put it in the category of fly-over states.

This video shook my brain. Thank you

its always funny to watch you figure out we can't see things LOL. anyway keep up the fun vids cheers.

Much love and respect to you

I live in NJ and frequently forget about Delaware, despite being very close to it.

“They picked the states with the best food.” Facts! I’m originally from New Orleans. It’s been much easier losing weight since moving to Pennsylvania. There aren’t a lot of choices here and the culture of Louisiana revolves around food & drinks. Ugh! I miss southern food.

Mississippi just getting booted around by these maps.

Sounds like the volume of the KZfaq video source is louder when you switch to the smaller KZfaq video perspective in OBS.

Yay, Vermont! But, dont tell anyone! 😊

I have to say, Minnesota looks good :)

Well, Native Americans may be 1% of the population, but a sizeable percentage of the US population has trace percentages all the way up to 25%

Fascinating

We are from Indiana and our total gross income has been around 65,000 -73,000 yearly combined. Rent out here for a three bedroom house is between 1200 -1600 and that's in bad areas. We are lucky to pay 800 for rent since we rent from my husband's coworker. We make 2 vehicle payments as well. If it wasn't for the cheap rent we would be living with family/roommates right now. Rent, groceries, vehicles and bills are so high it's insane. 7 years ago I lived in Washington state for a few years and it was 600 for a studio apartment. And minimum 1600 for a 1-2 bedroom apartment. I can only imagine what it is now....

Please explain how the states with the lowest crime have the strongest gun laws.

6:41 I used to joke with a coworker who was from Virginia and he hated West Virginians. I would say do you know the difference between West Virginia and Virginia and he would say what and I would say a state line 😂😂😂. That was just one but it was fun 30 years ago I guess it was. He was a great guy and we both joked and gave each other good laughs to get through the work day. I wish we could all get along and joke like that about each other. Theres a time to be kind and hear people’s problems too but you know what I mean. Laughter is the best medicine. Maybe this was off topic all people should come together and help each other in the struggles of life and learn to love and live with our differences. We are all human, no matter where you are from.

So in Mississippi you got three choices it seems🤔 Death by food, death by gun or death by car. It's nice to have options I guess😅

The pot holes in New Mexico are so bad when you hit one it feels like you fell off a cliff.

I’m in Oklahoma. I’m pretty much screwed

Mississippi must be studied 😂 wtf is going on there😂 I guess what isn't going on there is the better question 😂

16:29 oh hell man Charleston SC is a crazy place. A girlfriend I had went to college there and would have her car broken into everyday. There are two sides to that place. One with rich people and one with poor people. Her school was right on the line of that. You don’t want to go outside at night in that side of the town.

Aye it's wild lol I can tell you some tales 😆

Sounds like some one opend their mouth to the wrong person in east texas and got it shut h town for the win

Those crime statistics are skewed. It's based on incarceration rates. If you have DA's who don't prosecute crimes, like we've seen in the last few years, or criminals are given lighter sentences, then it will look like there is less crime. What you're really seeing is a culmination of crime and prosecution rates along with stringency of sentencing. I don't know how to get an accurate accounting of crime rates, but number of incarceration isn't quite right in the current state of our judicial systems. *sigh*

Also gotta remember the literacy thing for Florida and New York is possibly affected by immigrants as well. Cuba for Florida, and as you probably know Puerto Ricans for New York.

Since the last one was about states with cities named Springfield, as an Oregonian, I feel it's my duty to say our Springfield is the one in the Simspons 😂

17:25, more that its overcast, raining and snowing for like half the year up here, nobody wants to party in that weather, they just stay home lol.

Another place were that original content creator was incorrect is on when Maine and New Hampshire became States because up until the late 1800's the Territories which makes up Maine and New Hampshire was part of Massachusetts which is why today when shit hits the fan Maine Like New Hampshire and soo many states are allowed to separate from the union at any time.

Wish i could see my state of Florida.

How much of this data can be trusted. When some data is just chosen to not be reported or laws are just not enforced.

Mississippi thinks the purge is real life

the heartland really does seem like the place to be rn, both coasts got their own crisis going on, we got our own problems here but they’re nothin new and its stuff we’ve been working on to fix. Never saw the appeal of moving to California or Florida or any other glamorized state

Mate, everyone goes missing in Alaska. Some just make it home from work. Only to go missing the next day.

Southern food is just too damn good of course we over weight

Tennessee has like 6 massive car factory I don't know if that counts as our gpd

West Virginia getting cooked 🤣🤣

So we're just throwing New Jersey in the bin? Ok, seems legit

SPRINGFIELD Massachusetts is first Springfield in country where also first gas pedal velchle we use today first motorcycle fire truck first armory musem Webster Dictionary basketball..I can go on what came here this where America started

22:19 that may very well be part of it, but I think it has to do more with people having much more sedentary lives in the last few decades.

In Poland Chicago is weirdly known as the polish city in the USA.

Tennessee used look much different originally called state of Franklin this is where davey Crockett was born and it was in a valey not a mountain top

You are all chunky. I eat healthy and stay in shape. I will pray for you!!!

Well at least 1 blood line in Tennessee is Cherokee mine yay

Virginia is thoroughly middle of the road.

That's exactly the plan take good food to get your day over with all that energy then go to the hospital and rack up medical bills but I was 10 before I learned gravy wasn't a beverage

You have to add a lot of caveats to these statistics. Since they talk about % of population, there are many more people in Calif than in Alaska, so the % is kinda meaningless. Also, using one number for an entire state isn't right either. There is a HUGE difference between NYC and Buffalo, or Miami and Jacksonville, etc.

As a new mexican, I feel attacked, lol.. those numbers. In crime and income are over inflated by just two cities... Sante Fe is crazy expensive and most that live there aren't native new Mexicans, and Albuquerque is crazy crime. Most of the rest of the state is cheap, and the highest comes are non confrontational crimes

Food supply is the issue

Our weight is an indication of a vast amount of food we can eat and how often we can eat it. Why rich / royals were fatter then the commoners.

arkansas has homes on a average of 200,000 ... so using your 116k idea for 450,000k homes ( 1/4th the house cost) ..... you only need 50k a year for most normal 3 bed 2 bath homes....most have 10-30 year loans and not trying to pay off their home in 5 years ......

"Don't go to West Virginia, please"

I'm from Mississippi and them women thick down there lawd lol...I went to jail and had to get a lawyer from Florida to make sure they didn't try to lose me lol😂😂

Yo what up chat

They have Japanese in Hawaii still? Thought they ran them off like 80 years ago

Alaska has highest domestic abuse!

Minimum wages is your starting wage, want more $, get the skills to pay the bills.

5:18 I think minimum wage should be just enough to scrape by with a couple room mates or a very small basic place. If you want a family of a better house you need to work your way up, there needs to be an incentive for people to work harder, unfortunately there isn't a lot of that in today's economy.

Alaska is highest in domestic violence in the country! Alcoholism is the biggest problem!

Yo! Don’t tell people to not come to my state! WV has some of the most gorgeous natural beauty in the USA. We have sheer rock cliffs for climbers, amazing skiing locations, beautiful caves for exploring, and the only arched bridge you can legally BASE jump from once a year. No I am not employed by the state. I just am extremely proud to be a Mountaineer.

My dude, living in Upstate New York myself I can confirm that people up here are quite illiterate and it drives me insane! Most annoying part is that Google is always 1 to 2 clicks away. People can't seem to grasp just how much knowledge they have in their hands compared to even just 10-12 years ago. 10/10 Great video. First time viewer, Subscribe button Annihilated.

Is New Jersey actually that bad? I know a lot of Americans talk shit about it, but they also talk shit about Canada, and the only downside of Canada is its like having a lovely apartment above a crack house

By all measures, Mississippi's adult literacy rate is among the lowest in America. Advocates who spoke with Mississippi Today say several factors perpetuate the state's adult literacy problem, including generational poverty, incarceration rates, trauma and lack of funding for educational programs.

I’m too short on 💵 to be fat. You’re hiding Florida 😂

Minimum wage is a double-edged sword, because it correlates very positively with cost of living. That $16.28 in Washington state will barely buy you a meal, and it takes nearly three weeks of it (at 40 hrs/wk) to pay a month's rent in Seattle. The $7.25 in Indiana may actually be more money, depending on what you're buying. (If you're spending a good chunk of your income on things like cars, cellphones, or airline flights, then you're better off living in Washington state. If you're mostly buying housing and food, you're significantly better off in Indiana. Actual budgets, of course, contain a mixture of both categories...) In the context of a video like this, which is talking about things like demographics and economics, the only non-state portions of the US worth talking about, really, are the ones with civilians in permanent residence, of which there are only five. In decreasing order of population, they are Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas; and Puerto Rico has more than three times the population of the other four combined. The other territories are relevant in other contexts (e.g., military logistics) but don't really figure into the demographic or economic landscape of the country. The most forgettable state for me is probably New Hampshire. I barely know anything about it, except for general/regional facts that are just as applicable to all its neighbors. In the developed world, rural areas pretty consistently have higher literacy rates than big cities. Your observation about the lack of education in rural areas *was* true, historically; but that has changed in the modern era, in the first world. As evidence, I point to the fact that literacy rates in states like Wyoming and Vermont are just fine, despite the total lack of any large cities whatsoever and the high percentage of the population that doesn't live in any municipality at all. (The biggest outlier here is West Virginia, but that's due to economic problems, related to a collective decision made a few generations ago to double-down on making sure the entire state's economy remained heavily dependent on coal mining, *after* it became obvious that coal mining was an industry in terminal decline. They were like "Yeah, coal mining is dying, so all the other coal mining states are desperately trying to diversify into other industries. More fools them. That's just an opportunity for us to corner the market! Let's do our level best to drive other industries out so we can focus on just that one and OWN it!" Brilliant strategy. Literacy rates correlate positively with GDP, more strongly than they correlate inversely with population density; because when everyone who goes to college leaves the state and never comes back, after a few generations, that starts to Do Things to the educational level of your community, to the point where a lot of your people don't even see the value in education and don't see any reason why their kids should bother doing any homework. In most states that only happens in the really bad urban-poor neighborhoods, but West Virginia is special.) And yes, some of the states have lower adult literacy rates due to the presence of large numbers of first-generation immigrants from Latin America in particular. Latin America has significantly lower literacy rates than the US and Canada, *and* their first language isn't English, so that's a double whammy for English literacy. I'm starting to think I should move to Minnesota. I mean, Ohio's not too bad, but Minnesota just keeps landing in the top few states on so many things that matter. Mississippi... has problems. West Virginia is also quite beautiful, if you like the outdoors and nature and stuff. Great place to go for hiking, on vacation, when you don't need to find a job, because you're going back home in two weeks, to your existing job in another state. Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to find a job in West Virginia. That is no.

18:33 Not wine and Hollywood.... Big Tech and Hollywood ... imo

I bought a house for 161,000 and don’t make 60,000.

Lifelong Alaska since 1945. Alaska has an old saying. People are either running to Alaska for opportunities or running away from their past. We are three times the size of Texas with the lowest population population. In the mid 80s early 90s we had a massive influx of gang activity and gangs coming to the largest city Anchorage then Fairbanks delivering up methamphetamine back then known as ice. The Crips in the bloods have a huge hold on Anchorage because of all of the military bases in both Anchorage and Fairbanks, as well as Pluto Bay, the furthest northern Area for oil refinery the drug business exploded gang wars, and then you have criminals gangs that have been hiding in Alaska from the southern border down from the Mexican border, believing their skin color would match our indigenous peoples skin color and blend easier. Alaska has changed dramatically in the past 35 years. We also have wildlife such as grizzly bears, moose and sadly missing and murdered, indigenous women. We have serial killers here that have come from the lower 48 and many movieshave been made about them. The villages that are dry a.k.a. no alcohol get hit the hardest when the alcohol is smuggled in and the indigenous people have no tolerance for alcohol so they usually kill each other or die in horrific car accident.

New York is "safer" than Montana? lols whatevs

W VA is beautiful, although very poor.

Not everone brother

And where I live either you work for the city state or County or the tribe are you don't have a job because it's extremely hard for even the locals to get a job at Walmart and far as living basically almost on the reservation where I am the navajos they even steal from themselves they don't report their dead to the government they just passed the ID on to the next relative and that includes taking over their Indian benefits along with their welfare checks this is what they do there's a very small percentage that are straight up hard-working but the majority truly believe that a artist gets paid not for the quality of his work because he was the better Thief by being the better thief the artist was able to get more money in their beliefs

an average for homes is a dumb way to do it because if you have a large rich area, or a poorer are,,,, think if have a 1mill home and 1 at 150k, average just using the 2 is 575.000 ..... to many variables

My takeaway is stay away from Mississippi.

What is your problem with West Virginia? lol

what I find hilarious is the states he showed get a lot of tornados and hurricane weather, but shrugs it off like obesity is why people die. gotta watch the rest and see what he has to say about the north east.

something wrong with them numbers

You're not going to say anything about North Dakota lol

How are you not going to talk about Angola when talking about crime in Louisiana? It’s not a crime issue, it’s a force labor camp issue! There is a tape with L.A. sheriff Steve Prator saying “keeping prisoners (with minor or petty crimes) with good behavior incarcerated is a necessary evil” (and much more!) because they can be forced to work for free making that private prison (the largest in the states) $375 million in PROFITS annually! It sits on land that used to be a 18,000 acre plantation!! It was sold and just flipped into a forced labor camp. So slavery never actually ended in that area, it just got a face lift. I’m a white girl from Seattle that seems to know more about these topics than you sir. You should do a video on that corruption!!

It's not just Mississippi, a lot of the negative ones clinged together. The maps for minimal wage, obesity, prison rate and a few more were very similar. Texas is weird, one of the richest, still among the worst in many of the metrics. A rich shithouse. About homicide rate, you are very correct when you say even Maine is too much with 1.7 per 100k. Maybe you have heard of the crime wave in Sweden, we seem to have made the news in the last few years.. We are still down at 1.2 so not even close to the safest state in the US. And we are in a frenzy trying to fix this big problem we have... Your food is delicious if you have been conditioned to it. At least for me, it's way too sweet, I have eaten Dominos pizza twice, never again. It's horrible. The dough tastes sugar.

Ever state has some beautiful places just don't go to the hood do some traveling before judging woo pig sooie razorbacks

US food is more processed and made with random chemicals, bugs and terrible ingredients

I might argue against the whole "rural areas being illiterate" , compared to urban areas of a state. Most city schools are doing abysmal in terms of reading comprehension. I would almost wager urban areas being the least literate areas of a state these days. I back this idea up with the fact that the states with the highest populations have the least amount of proficient readers. And where does the vast majority of people live in most states? cities. The states with the highest literacy rates are sparsely populated (less cities). Yes WV is probably a crap hole, but its also beautiful and everything is cheaper. If you have money, good place to retire.

Your statement about is not correct. As a home buyer I make nowhere near that.

That number of overweight people must have gone down since Biden’s economy. 😂😂😂. 😢😢😢

THAT MAP IS IN ERROR... FBA AKA BLACK R AMERICAN INDIANS WERE NOT AFRICAN AMERICANS!!!! FACTS R FACTS NUFF SAID

This information sounds wrong

Lies, damn lies, & statistics

I hate to tell you, brother, but you sound like a guy from NY who's never been west of the Mississippi, with normal East Coast bias against the rest of the country. If you're not American, realize this guy knows as much as you do about 90% of this country. 🙄. His opinions on states he's never been too, is as informed as any other foreigners. So foreigners watching this guy, don't use his opinions to back up your own pre-concieved notions on US states.

Mississippi is the poorest, most racist state.

76.9% literacy in california is cracy in the XXI century, it's bad for even the XX century.

Need a new voice to talk sorry can't watch it

dont believe this weirdo ..,