Explaining America’s Nine Nations part 1

[bernardopaba]

One little Correction: American cowboy culture didn’t come from the scots-irish, it came from those people picking up the Vaquero and Charro horse cultures from Mexico when they went west. Btw that would be a very interesting future video on Horse cultures of the world like the Cowboy, Charro, Llanero, Gaucho, etc

[yousaidthusly]

“It’ll take 300 years to understand Florida”

Easy. We are America’s Appendix, if America was a creature that needed it to survive. We filter America’s toxic and indigestible populations then mix them with a healthy dose of a “bacterial” culture, thus making everyone who comes to live here eventually “Floridian.”
We’re like the borg in that regard.

Sincerely, a Floridian on the I-4

[venomlink]

As someone who’s lived near Lake Michigan my whole life, it’s amazing how many parallels the decline of the Foundry has with the fall of the Soviet Union. Even down to the opioid epidemic.

[mathoskualawa]

Nice mention of Hawaii as what was essentially a New England colony. I'm a Native Hawaiian historian, born and raised here and lived here on Oahu my entire life. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) essentially helped modernize the Hawaiian Kingdom, to the point where we had a literacy rate of over 90% in less than two generations. Granted, population was much lower back then, but we started with a literacy rate of barely 1%. Hope to hear more about us sometime in the future.

[CharpyTheHedgehog]

It's funny how you said New England was established by Puritans from Southern England and that area is known for being cold and impersonal. Then the Foundry was established by Quakers from Northern England and that region is warm and friendly. Those are the exact same stereotypes of Southern vs Northern England today.

[urielantoniobarcelosavenda]

5:13 New England
14:30 The Foundry
27:59 The South
40:21 The Islands

[alex_]

Honestly hawaii is so physically isolated from the mainland USA that it’s basically it’s own thing as well. After visiting hawaii, I can say for sure the islands Have their own unique culture, cuisine, accent, history, preferred styles of music, etc. unlike anywhere else in the USA

[joshg]

A friend I met traveling and stayed with in Ireland said that when he visited his brudder in boston, he heard more poeple speaking Irish than he typically hears around Dublin.

[gabrielseaborn]

13:47 "Boston is a world hub of tech, finance, and intellectual jobs and is incredibly wealthy"

_Proceeds to show Quebec City_

[LOGNAG]

As a fellow Pennsylvanian, you might be interested to know that last week they passed a law dropping the corporate net income tax (CNIT) by 50%. It was 9.9%, second highest in the nation behind New Jersey, and will now be 4.5%, making it one of the five lowest of the states which have a CNIT (I believe about 40-43). They’re trying to encourage some new business and manufacturing return finally

[gstarr]

I think you missed with the south the divide between the rural and urban south. As you said the south is growing fast but that growth is mostly coming from people from other parts of the country who aren’t assimilating into the culture of the old south that you describe in this video. This is creating more of a division between the more liberal cities (Atlanta, Charlotte, etc) and the more traditional rural and suburban areas. So I wouldn’t say that the south is “rising again” or at least that the south that may rise may be unrecognizable from the old one.

[andrewrife]

Speaking as someone from Ohio it's weird seeing documentaries from the early to mid 1900s where cities like Steubenville, portsmouth, and Youngstown ohio were all centers of industry. We had factories that made many of the supplies used during ww1 and ww2 and now those cites especially are damn near abandoned and poverty-ridden. Ohio is so diverse and has historically been so important but now it's been boiled down to a football crazed meme.

[Cha_ouii]

41:30 I’m very confident that the “Florida man” stereotype is due to the sunshine laws that allow open books for all arrests to the public. This is very well documented....

[SayNoToDemocide]

This makes me think of the book "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America" by Colion Woodard.

[maxkronader]

Your comments on Philadelphia strike a chord. I am a generation (or two) older than you. I can remember the destruction of the shipbuilding industry. Yet, despite all the economic chaos, only North Philadelphia, in the Diamond Street area, was an actively dangerous neighborhood any time of the day or night. And, despite the claims of those seeking to make political hay by dividing us, it was not necessarily a racial thing. West Philadelphia was block after block after block of blue collar Black neighborhoods, all the way from the Schuylkill river to 69th St. Yet a White guy like me could walk to the El or the bus stop or to work without ever being hassled. No one, Black or White could do that in North Philadelphia.

[justherecomment]

As a Pennsylvanian, its nice to hear our culture represented by someone so intelligent and with a sincere understanding of the mindset. I was addicted to opiods in the past due to feeling as though there was no place for my life to go. Stuck with my only hope for a livelihood being the failing factories and warehouses of this state, I couldn't imagine a life that I would find fulfilling. I'm happy you mentioned these things.

[BrianDeBoisGuilbert]

Ireland was the first place to ban slavery. The Irish were so anti-slavery that the English, after conquering it, did not dare to bring slaves there. Traditionally, the sentiment is ascribed to Saint Patrick's status as an Irish slave, who was taken from Wales. PS - this is my favorite YouTube channel by a country mile.

[zackallen]

I'm a New England Native. Actually a Mainer. A lot of what you said is right on the mark. Cold arrogant and weirdly racist based on what state you are from. However, to the anti social part. I think thats actually wrong. My understanding is that New England has the highest rate of local government involvement and older people here will literally approach you out of no where and offer to fix your car. My dad was from Texas and I've spent some timen in the South. If I could make a comparison between the Northern and Southern hospitality. In the South, you wil go to a new church and 10 people will invite over "any time" but if you actually show up it'll be weird as hell. In Maine, someone will find out you go to church and mock you to your face about it, then they'll come by and plow your driveway for free without saying a word.

[christophermoreau]

As a Maine, descendant of a British teenager - grabbed by the King to cut trees before the Revolution, I see Maine as very welcoming- to a point. My favorite example of NE people came from my cousin: if you get your car stuck in a snow bank in Mass, they’ll just drive by. - in NH they’ll bring you a shovel- in ME they’ll bring 2, one for you and one for them.
I find that pretty true. I believe that’s true even if you’re from away.

[memyself]

What people know of Miami today is almost entirely built upon the cocaine trade in the 70's and 80's. Before that, Miami was mostly home to Cuban immigrants, farmers, old Jews, and weird bohemian artsy fartsy people. South beach did have a good amount of tourism, but nothing like it is now. And the majority of it came via cocaine. My family has lived here since the late 50's, when anything west of I95 was farmland and swamp.