Virginia - The US Explained

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Intro Video Segments-

[ThatIsInterestingTII]

The next state up will be New York! If you're from New York, please respond to this comment with any information you'd like to include about your home state!

[thomasgrohs]

As a person from Fredericksburg, born and raised. Im sooo happy you brought it up. People don’t know how much it has played a role in this countries history. The same could be say for the whole state. Without Virginia theres no United States.

[keithotinkorang]

Ayy glad you’re back! I’ve been waiting for this one!

[nasirjones-bey]

I love Virginia, so much history here! Greetings from Norfolk, Va!!

[mrmadmaxalot]

I have literally lived from one end of Virginia to the other, and this was a fairly well done presentation. The only thing I would fix is that you left out Roanoke and Blacksburg/Montgomery county. Roanoke is an important city in the western part of the state, ninth largest in the state and a metro population of over 300K. It has a history closely associated with the railroads. It sits at the boundary between the piedmont and mountain regions along an ancient Native American path leading into the mountains that followed roughly the same route as I-81 today. Blacksburg/Montgomery county is just next door about 30 minutes away. Blacksburg is home to Virginia Tech which has a student population of nearly 35K and is very diverse, drawing many students from around the world. The Blacksburg/Montgomery area has a population of around 100K, and together with Roanoke forms the most economically significant region in the western part of the state.

[PkerOfThePures]

As a lifelong Virginian who has grown up and lived in many parts of the state, I can attest that this video is very well put together! Great job!

[chadstacy]

Virginia was worth the wait! I'm betting this will be the most watched of the US Explained Series! Thanks, Carter and anyone else who helped you pull this excellent piece together!

[Furrynavel]

As a Virginian, this video is perfect! I've watched videos about my state from other creators, and they have always failed to capture the essence of my home. You sir, have done a fantastic job at describing all the nuances of the state. Although I do have one tiny local qualm lol; the the city of Staunton mentioned in 20:43 is pronounced as if the the "u" is silent, pronounced like Stanton. :)

[joecoastie]

Bluefield VA is also split in half. As a native Virginian, thanks for the video! @10:15, that is not Virginia. That is the New River Gorge bridge in WV.

[coolbluetunes]

you make every state seem like its the most unique

[StateoftheWorld]

We’ve been waiting for you! Welcome back man!!

[timj]

Great to see you back, excellent research as always. One thing to point out, is as more and more time goes on an argument can certainly be made that the Megalopolis extends down to Richmond. The D.C suburbs continue to spread a bit further south and the Richmond suburbs have creeped a bit further north. While there are still some rural areas in between the two, and parts of it might be less densely populated than other more traditional parts of the Megalopolis, that gap is certainly shrinking.

[sammysliver]

As a resident of Suffolk, Virginia, my across the street neighbor's backyards border The Great Dismal Swamp. Also Suffolk is the biggest City by land mass in the whole State. Keep up the good work. You've got a new subscriber !!

[robcep]

I was raised in Jersey(watched the jersey video) now I live in VA so I loved this one!

[bjdon]

The growth of Northern VA (NoVA) since the Great Depression/ New Deal and then World War II that really kicked off the Federal Government as a juggernaut of job and population growth has been truly an unprecedented change to a state. Here are the populations of the big 4 NoVA counties in 1930 vs. 2020:
1930 2020
Arlington 27k 238k
Fairfax 25k 1.15m
Loudoun 20k 420k
Prince William 14k 482k

All of these counties were originally agricultural counties until the sprawl from DC arrived. Fairfax was at one time known as a huge dairy farming county. There are now no working farms in Arlington & Fairfax, as they are all subdivided into housing and office parks. Same with the Eastern half or Loudoun. PW still has a ways to go, but it is the 2nd biggest county in the state. Loudoun and PW will continue to boom, perhaps someday catching up with Fairfax, which is growing much more slowly, as its vacant lots are now gone while the other two have lots of room to grow.

The growth there is what turned VA, which was a reliably Red state very similar to the rest of the South from the 1960s till the early 2000s, into a swing state. Fairfax alone has 1/8th of all the voters in the state. These counties (along with Alexandria) are the engine that now runs the state. The difference between these big counties and those down near Bristol on the TN line is like night & day. I am not sure there are too many other states that have such a big difference between parts of the state both economically, politically and geographically.

[Estolcles]

Pronunciation issue:

Chief Powhatan. The "H" in his name is silent. So it's not "Pow-Hat-An" as said in the video, but "Pow-A-Tan".

I say this as a Richmonder who has lived in Powhatan County (located West of Richmond, VA).

[eddiegv]

I binged the heck out of this series earlier this year in like June and have been waiting for the next one! Yay!

[patrick-xy]

Hey, I’ve been loving your videos. So incredibly detailed and interesting. Quick very minor thing. The picture you have for Fredericksburg is actually Fredericksburg, TX, a pocket of Texas known for its major German influence. I’m from Texas and know that town well and thought it looked strangely familiar. A town probably worth talking about when you do your Texas video. Anyway, keep up the great work.

[alanlight]

21:49 - the Linn Cove viaduct pictured is famous for the difficulty of its construction but was made that way to protect local wildlife habitat and was the last section of the Blue Ridge Parkway to be completed. However, it is in North Carolina.

"In some areas known as Skyline Drive" - specifically, where it passes through Shenandoah National Park.

[io]

One of the best series on Youtube is back once again