The USA Explained in 30 Maps!

In this video you will learn everything about the USA, explain in maps.

We will take a look at all topics including economy, history, population, laws and more!

I have include a lot of funny and interesting statistics.

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[srschriver]

Hawaii may not have a very large Native American population, but it has a huge Pacific Islander population, which is its indigenous culture.

[SleepDeprived]

The literacy map is just measuring English literacy. The four least English literate states are some of the heaviest immigrant populations, many of whom hardly speak English, let alone write and read it.

[RepublicOfTrythania]

Florida is just green in life expectancy because everybody that retires goes to there.

[ItsAzureandAurora]

You know you're bored as hell when you're binge watching videos about different state statistics

[Thworn]

a Minnesotan here and I didn't realize how good our state really is...
minus the winter and the cities

[themanifestorsmind]

Its okay to say "black"...somehow hearing myself referred to as "dark" sounds worse.

[natheria]

As someone who was born and raised in Mississippi, I can explain why it's a shithole.

First off, in terms of economic resources....Mississippi doesn't really have any. With agriculture being the dominant industry, and tourism behind that, there is not alot of incentive for outside investment. If you want any semblance of good pay there, you have to work the farms, or you go into tourism. The fishing industry used to be big...but the 2011 oil spill absolutely devastated the local industry. It still exists, but it's a far cry from what it once was. As most buyers started contracting international or other states to fill seafood demand for fish.

It didn't help that during the 2005 hurricane katrina the gulf coast got hit really hard with damage. Even almost 20 years later, they still never fully recovered. The event caused alot of crime to break out too as alot of people lost their source of income and housing. To make it all worse, 2008's housing crash put alot of Mississippians in even more peril. Trailer parks for low income poverished households started shutting down. People with investment in their own homes lost everything.

The lack of incentive economically for the rest of the country to invest in the state created a excess of fees and costs for basic infrastructure. Things like school funding, bridge maintenance, and power/water infrastructure began to collapse. Leaving much of the state in complete disrepair. It doesnt take long to find roads and bridges that havent been maintained or used in years just right off the main highways and interstates.

With a lack of funding from the federal government, school performance began to drop. Increasing illiteracy rates by a huge margin. The lack of jobs and affordable housing pressures alot of people to go into criminal activity. Drug and human trafficking are common along the coastal interstate. My father works for MDOT, so i saw first hand how bad it can get. Typically obesity in america is caused by undereducation about nutritional health along with the expensive nature of sourcing healthy foods. Leading to a common unhealthy lifestyle for the poor and impoverished that make the bulk of the population.

Domestic abuse and violence occur frequently especially in the rural and coastal areas. There still exist sundown towns in some parts of the state, which are extremely racial towns towards minorities such as african americans, but the police are largely underfunded and corrupt in the state as well so im not surprised. the south has always struggled desperately with systemic racism. Much more then most of the country.

With a lack of a future the vast majority of those who can afford it flee the state. Like I did hoping to find better opportunities elsewhere. Mississippi is a testament to what corruption, systemic problems, and gross underfunding can and will do to the rest of the country if things dont change.

[iqsjhdl]

Walter White really screwed up the degree of safety in New Mexico

[Da_biglm]

In conclusion don’t go to Mississippi and go to Minnesota.

[JacobW]

Well, I'm a Floridian, so I have to defend it here:
By my knowledge, Florida, Texas, and California all have high populations of non-English speakers. Where I live, there is a large percentage of Hispanic population. A lot of major companies, like Amazon, work to offer free classes to learn English at local community colleges.

[nathanapplegate]

Minimum wage is not a good metric to use for determining who makes good money. Washington and California have some of the highest minimum wages, but also lead the nation in cost of living, homelessness, and widening wealth disparity. A better metric is how much of their money do they keep after taxes and bills.

[duckdeity]

As an Iowan, I have to agree, we are always forgotten. Everyone calls us Idaho or Ohio. But, as long as our state is better than Nebraska, I’m happy

[morganvikings_]

As a Minnesotan, I think you guys are finally realizing how op we are

[TheEnchantedTesticle]

My grandfather always had a quote

"The greatest part about living in America, everyone can have an opinion no matter how wrong they are.

[Rhylek]

how the hell are north and south dakota in the top 10 memorable states?

[Camran]

How do you forget Minnesota because like (insert joke about us almost freezing to death during winter here)

[Xhampeion]

Dark for the big minorities map is insane 10:44

[Axel-jbdb]

Wish some of these maps were explained more, because population and tourism is a factor, since all the states in red for literacy are highly frequented states and have high populations, there is the Texan-Mexican border, California and New York being popular for immigrants in general and Florida with Cubans that come from the south

[FireFoxie]

(23.7!) Homicides per 100k seems excessive. Are you sure it’s not 23.7?

[phantomfeather]

Note to self: Don’t live in Mississippi