The next state I'll be covering in The US Explained is North Carolina! To all my subscribers from North Carolina, please reply to fill me in on what I need to know about your home state, such as unique food, traditions, places, some fun facts and local dialects and pronunciations! I can't promise everything will make it into the video, but I will try my best, and I'm looking forward to getting started!

@X1GenKaneShiroX

2 жыл бұрын

North Carolina state and Tokyo prefecture Japan is at around the same latitude with similar climate both being Cfa climate which is humid subtropical however North Carolina got a lower population density and way lower population than Tokyo prefecture Japan.

@Lycorix-_-

2 жыл бұрын

Well my hometown if New Bern was the birthplace of Pepsi and the third colonial capital of NC but also the first state capital of NC because of it being the colonial capital the governor of the time decided to build a mansion named after him named Tryon Palace. New Bern is named after the capital of Switzerland because of the founding settlers being primarily German and French Huguenots. Another interesting fact is that on the island of Ocracoke and surrounding coastal islands there exists a dialect that is unique to the islands called "Hoi Toider" English which is more related to British English than to American English accents.

@davidadler2255

2 жыл бұрын

From Raleigh Durham area

@jjnc6761

2 жыл бұрын

I live in Greensboro and, the sit in's during the civil rights movement strated here. It's also the birthplace of dolly Madison and it's called the gate city because of all the trains that went through it.

@bjdon99

2 жыл бұрын

-The Eastern vs Western NC BBQ difference is a big thing in the state. -That Rocky Mount is the home of Hardees. -Also, how Tobacco has funded the two big private schools in the state. Duke started in Trinity NC but the Duke family paid to move it to Durham in the 1920s. Then the town of Wake Forest which is just to the N. of Raleigh had a small liberal arts college, but since the 1950s Wake Forest U has been in Winston-Salem. The RJ Reynolds family was jealous that Durham, the other big tobacco town in the state, had a good school and they didn't, so they basically did the same thing to WFU, and paid to move it to Winston-Salem. There is a small Baptist seminary in the town of Wake Forest now, where the old WFU was.

Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, Yonkers, New Rochelle etc would all be significant cities if located in another state. Just shows you how economical, politically and socially dominant NYC is

@zachzgod7354

2 жыл бұрын

Well Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany are already big cities. Yonkers would be big if located elsewhere. But new Rochelle only has about 70 thousand residents, not big enough

@itzpro5951

2 жыл бұрын

Buffalo and Rochester already had been significant cities in the past, at their peak, Buffalo was the 15th largest US city, Rochester peaked as the 23rd largest US city. These cities grew and declined on their own

@gincream1993

2 жыл бұрын

Well I’m from Utica and I’ve never heard anyone call these, “steamed hams”.

@itzpro5951

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gevixel "(Except Cali)" uhh are you sure about that? LA, San Fran, Long Beach and San Diego are all rich and successful cities. I think you should double down from your doubts about California because its always the same thing with the stigma around Cali.

@patentexperts1675

2 жыл бұрын

@@itzpro5951 Buffalo was at one time one of the top ten ports in the WORLD when measured in tonnage and it's port was not even open year round.

Fun fact: When America was just getting started Philadelphia was the country's alpha city. But it was quickly upstaged by New York and never looked back. The reason is because of geography: going west from Philadelphia you hit an impenetrable wall of mountains where there are no navigable waterways and going over land was rough. From New York you can go up the Hudson and then up the Mohawk Valley to reach the Great Lakes and access the Midwest. The Erie Canal helped cement New York's position as a hub for inward expansion as well as outward trade because of it's protected harbor. Thus, New York became the American Rome and in the age of American Hegemony is basically the political, economic, and cultural center of the entire world. Poor Philly, where I live, sits less than 100 miles away, and although it's a large city it will always be in New York's shadow.

@liltoaster7308

2 жыл бұрын

Philadelphia was still incredibly influential even after New York surpassed it in status and population. It was the industrial "workshop of the world" at one point, and was the nation's hub for the newest technology, best industry, and innovations in transportation. Unfortunately that ended in the 50s and 60s with industry moving overseas, but Philly is again seeing another resurgence pretty much right now.

@mr.oblivious1

2 жыл бұрын

You quickly upstaged this entire video

@patentexperts1675

2 жыл бұрын

I agree - Philadelphia was the city of the USA at one point and in the late 1900s was the 4th largest city in the USA, only NY, Chicago and LA were larger.

@jackgerberuae

Жыл бұрын

@@patentexperts1675 and today, still very much the same order, no?

@a2wingedeagle

Жыл бұрын

It's sixth now, behind Miami and Phoenix I think

Native New Yorker. I've lived in the Boroughs, the suburbs and now in the countryside of this great state. Don't underestimate how big and how beautiful it is!

One thing of note: The Adirondacks are actually not geologically part of the Appalachians. They are a unique geological anomaly created by a continually expanding dome of rock that is worn away by the elements, creating peaks. While the Appalachians are actively eroding, the Adirondacks are still growing a fairly rapid rate.

@noahbates2221

Жыл бұрын

They are also a lot older then the Appalachians if memory serves. Though I dont think the formations history is completely understood on how it came to be, the rocks there are much, much older.

@shoop91lee

Жыл бұрын

I literally just watched this part, and as someone that spent every summer growing up exploring the adks, I came running to the comments to say this.

@davidchojnacki2996

Жыл бұрын

@@noahbates2221 the rocks are much older - about 2 billion years old. The uplift is a more recent geological event ~ 10 million years ago, and still growing!!

@noahbates2221

Жыл бұрын

@@davidchojnacki2996 thats what i thought. Its just been a while since ive looked at the geological data, so didnt want to say a age or something and not have it be accurate

@NuNugirl

9 ай бұрын

The Catskills, Ramapos and my home the beautiful Palisades towering over the Hudson.

Well done! As a non-NYC New Yorker, it was good to see so much information about the ENTIRE state, and with only a few minor errors that I noticed. Overall, you covered most of the important things, and you did it in a reasonable amount of time.

@carlitoespo2222

Жыл бұрын

What were the Errors?

@Dendrite1287

Жыл бұрын

@@carlitoespo2222 Adirondack mountains are their own geographic mountain range and separate from Appalachians. Albany being the oldest city in the country - St. Augusitine holds that title (though it was originally founded by the Spanish and not an original city). Those were the only two that I noticed. I must say this was a very well done video and so glad that he focused on the history of the state as a whole and not exclusively NYC propper. Great video!

NY is so diverse, with NYC having its own culture and significant immigrant communities, the western and central part having a more midwest/rust belt influence, and the eastern part having a new englad influence. And with one of the most pristine wilderness on the east coast in the adirondacks. It is connected to many significant East coast US watersheds, including the hudson, delaware, susquehanna (chesapeke bay), saint lawrence/great lakes, and mississippi via the allegheny river. Also what noone mentions about Rochester is the massive gorges and waterfalls along the genessee river that are located throughout the downtown. I have never seen anything like it

@alexgoldsmith1431

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gevixel used to live in Syracuse and white plains. now livev on the NH VT border. ur totally right I forgot about the Canadian / Quebec influence as well.

@KINGONE6XIV

Жыл бұрын

You explained it perfectly being from rochester feels like Chicago

As a lifelong New Yorker who has lived in multiple regions within the state I absolutely love this video. It felt like a love letter to my home and was very informative. Than you for making this

@XchampionXFTW

8 ай бұрын

I second this! Grew up in Long Island and lived upstate for a while

Whenever I travel, I often get people who assume I’m from NYC when I say New York. When I explain that I in fact grew up in the woods and the neighbor was a farmer, I get weird looks. It’s honestly kind of funny how some people assume the entire state of New York is a city.

@ikmarchini

Жыл бұрын

You are right, but remember, the State was named after the City.

@Gubbinsmcbumbersnoot

Жыл бұрын

@@ikmarchini Yeah true, but the state and city are so vastly different from eachother, that it’s necessary to specify which is which.

@EddieFly00

Жыл бұрын

So relatable. I may Syracuse area native and wherever I travel, it always happens. 😆 “Nope, not from NYC, friend.”

@rosealexander9007

9 ай бұрын

I moved to Virginia seven years ago and I have experienced the same thing. It gets rather old. So I have come up with an idea to show them how clearly ignorant their thinking is. I tell them to pretend that the state of Virginia is called Richmond State. Then I tell them to imagine how it would feel if every time someone asked them where they were from and they said Richmond State to assume that they mean Richmond City and that the whole State of Richmond is a city. And then I go on to explain that the state of New York has rural parts and city parts just like every state. And I go on to explain to them that NY state is 554 thousand square feet and NY city is 302 square feet

@joycem2266

7 ай бұрын

I just tell people 'Canadian border, american side' lmao

A few things on Long Island: - Nassau is pronounced like "Nass-AWW" - The Republican base on the island is not, and historically has not been, the Hamptons. It is middle-class Irish and Italian Catholics. Mostly on the South Shore too, a corridor that is basically from Merrick to Shirley. The Hamptons is so affluent it is in a class of its own, and a lot of those rich people are now moderate-liberal. Hillary and Biden voters. Also the SUNY college system is pronounced like "Soo-nee."

Glad these videos are still lengthy! Was afraid you were going to trim it. Love it. I treat it like a movie when the videos get released.

@peterhenderson9331

2 жыл бұрын

Glad u enjoyed it !❤️

13:48 Pictures you can hear... *"This is the train to, Ronkonkoma! The next station is, rOnKoNkOma* The Adirondacks are NOT part of the Appalachian Mountains. Although many say they are, they are actually part of the Canadian Shield plateau. And thus, not part of the mountain system. Adirondack comes from the Mohawk term "ha-de-ron-dah" or "eater of trees". No mention of Lake George while talking about the Adirondacks? No mention of Sleepy Hollow either during the Hudson Valley part? The audacity. Sleepy Hollow is the absolute BEST place to visit in the Valley, they host a jack-o-lantern blaze every year for Halloween. And you can visit the locations mentioned in the story!

@nycuba7478

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I always here that playing over the loudspeaker

@adurpandya2742

2 жыл бұрын

I had no idea.

@gold-818

2 жыл бұрын

The newer trains changed the voice unfortunately.

@MusicKnowsAll

2 жыл бұрын

LOVE IT

@TheTeddyIsALiar

27 күн бұрын

My favorite is: "This is the train to Ronkonkoma. The next station is... wYANDAAAANCH."

A video about New York, that also talks about upstate New York? Impossible!

@nycuba7478

2 жыл бұрын

Kimpossible

Being a born and raised Buffalonian the 15 counties in that part of the state are called Western New York(WNY)

@Hippiekinkster

2 жыл бұрын

I remember having to listen to my old man's AM country radio, WNYR. SO GLAD the Beatles came along.

When I was learning about the European colonizers in APUSH, we were split up in groups, each assigned a certain empire. For my group, it was the Dutch and we had to talk about their approach. So when it came to a question about Indian relations when I was doing my research at home, I was expecting "Oh it's gonna be negative like everyone else"...and then I realized they had pretty good ties with the natives. Focusing on trade. Heck, there was even a Mohawk creole based on Dutch. The Mohawk favored the Dutch because they viewed them as protection from the French-allied Huron. They were a reasonable power. Unfortunately, they didn't treat Indonesia the same way

@derek9956

2 жыл бұрын

Heyy i have apush too!! for the colonization period i was in quarantine so i couldnt do much tho

@jesuiszrr

2 жыл бұрын

How do you manage to comment on every video I watch? 😂😂😂

@ghrtfhfgdfnfg

2 жыл бұрын

This is great. You utilized your education in a productive manner here

@Not_Sal

2 жыл бұрын

I remember my APUSH days

@yg6484

Жыл бұрын

Been a while since I’ve seen you. I’m about to take APUSH.

I'm a native of Rochester and I've never heard of the state having a region known as the "Northern Tier". There is the "Southern Tier", but not a northern one. There is the "North Country" but that is in the Adirondacks.

@maplelatte3366

5 ай бұрын

You are correct. The Twin Tiers are actually comprised of the Southern Tier of NY and the Northern Tier of PA. I live in Steuben County, just ten miles from the PA border.

LOVE how you covered upstate just as extensively as you did the city. The one thing I would add is discussing Long Island a bit more, especially the eastern part. There is a North Fork and South Fork that are culturally very different and worth touching on. But regardless, well done as always! :)

@Charbear25

Жыл бұрын

Yes!! I agree....i live in dutchess county

@sammysliver

Жыл бұрын

They USE to be different. The North Fork has been invaded by wealthy NYC residents now that are buying up all the real estate for second homes. The local businesses now cater to them and the North Fork is quickly losing it's more rural feel of the past. My family lives in Greenport. I myself lived there for 14 years and still visit regularly. It's changed so much in the last decade that ( for me ) it's lost it's charm. It's also now wickedly expensive just like the South Fork.

Great video - Being in the Art world , and growing up in NYC , we have some of the country's most famous Art museums- Auction houses and Art gallery's . Artists changed Soho , Chelsea , Tribeca , Lower East Side and Williamsburgh You had a lot to pack in.

As a New Yorker I’m glad you didn’t just focus on NYC entirely

Although the NYC Subway system is the largest in terms of stations, it isn 7th in terms of ridership.

My sister went to college at the University of Rochester, and I have to mention a few omissions about the city! First, it was nicknamed the Flour City after its mills, but also the *Flower* City, as it was also a major location for that industry, and apparently the residents couldn't ignore the wordplay opportunity. Second, Mt. Hope Cemetary, adjacent to the U of R's campus, is one of the largest cemetaries in the country, and holds the graves of many famous residents - I've personally been to those of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass. And third, you forgot the city's main culinary claim to fame, the "Garbage Plate", a testament to late night college fare and one of the most disgustingly beautiful things you'll ever see. Great video!

@jayg1438

Жыл бұрын

I am a Rochestarian and can confirm all of this is correct.

@TheLg1985

Жыл бұрын

Fellow rochesterian, great added points!!

@cdubsoptional7849

Жыл бұрын

As a Buffalonian, when I hear "Rochester," two things immediately come to mind: Dogtown, and Jazz Fest.

@KINGONE6XIV

Жыл бұрын

I need me a garbage plate right now

@teklife

Жыл бұрын

garbage plate? nice culinary claim to fame

Excited to finally hear about my homestate, and stoked to see you didnt overlook upstate NY

It was great to be part of this video on New York! Thanks again, and looking forward to seeing you the next video in the fifty states series!

@ThatIsInterestingTII

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for all your help! It was a pleasure to have you featured in this episode!

Nassau County is pronounced Na-saw. Also there is one tiny section of Manhattan on main land New York, Marble Hill.

@jml732

2 жыл бұрын

Fun-Fact: Nassau is a German Royal House, named after the city/castle of Nassau in the 21th century. They were the most important monarchs in Dutch history but also of Hessian history.

@chrisk5651

2 жыл бұрын

@@jml732 King William III of England for whom the College William & Mary was partly named was of the House of Orange-Nassau. He was the son-in-law (& nephew) of James II and they were invited to rule Britain after the Glorious Revolution saw the end of James’s reign. There is also a county in New York name Orange County for that family not the fruit. Although name Nassau comes from a place that is now in Germany, the name Orange comes from a place that is now in France (but had been a principality previously).

@ikmarchini

Жыл бұрын

Correct. Either the Harlem River moved or they moved it, I forget.

I just watched your last video and when I saw that you were gonna do a video on NY I went to your channel to see if it was up yet. 15 minutes ago, perfect!

New York is by far one of my favorite states. I am a New Englander. But I have deep routes in NY, my mom's family originates from there. I can trace my ancestry back to Dutch settlers which is pretty cool. Currently I live in the NYC metro in CT. I have been exploring, and looking to explore the Hudson valley and Capital Region where my family is from.

Being from Utica, I can tell you, we are on the rebound! Thank you for the great information! I've been waiting on this one for a long time!

I grew up where your upstate guest was from in the northern Catskills. I would also mention that the SUNY (State Univ. of NY) college system is the second largest state University system in the country after California. Also, the very first Public Engineering college (West Point) and the first private Engineering college (RPI or Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) are both on the Hudson River in NYS. NYS also plays a large role in horse racing, with Saratoga Racecourse and Belmont, as well as Saratoga having the horseracing Hall of Fame. I only found one error in your entire video. The Adirondacks are NOT part of the Appalachian chain. They are actually a Granite dome pushed up from the crust from deep mantle activity and geologically part of the Canadian Shield that runs along the north side of the great lakes, as is it's vegetation. This was an EXCELLENT documentary of NY. It is hard to fit everything about NY into one hour. It is, in my opinion, the most diverse state in the USA.

I think the Adirondacks are not actually part of the Appalachian Moubtains, but a separate range?

@jasonreed7522

2 жыл бұрын

They are separate from all other mountain ranges, they were formed by a granitic intrusion pushing up the mountains as a dome. What's interesting is that the region previously was an ancient mountain range mightier than the Himalayas resulting in the rocks of the Adirondacks being some of the oldest on the surface of the earth. (I had lunch on the second oldest rock on the surface on a school trip, i think the oldest is in Greenland) The name is derived from an Algonquin slur meaning "bark eater".

As somebody from Long Island thank you so much for saying 'On Long Island' not 'In Long Island' it helps more then you know

@adurpandya2742

2 жыл бұрын

Why? I use both.

@gold-818

2 жыл бұрын

@@adurpandya2742 heretic

@ikmarchini

Жыл бұрын

'On' is correct for any island.

@user-rb4cj7mb8f

Ай бұрын

@@gold-818heretic is the perfect response for anyone who says “in long island” it sounds so gross…

14:52 the darkest blues are the cities, with Tompkins County, home to Ithaca and Cornell University, being "10 square miles surrounded by reality".

47:44 My family is from the Adirondacks - I share my last name with a small town in the far-Upstate region, one grandmother shares her last name with an old resort town and another great-grandmother shares the name of a small town near Schenectady. I grew up in other regions of the US - primarily the South - but due to COVID allowing me to work remotely, I recently moved as far north in New York as I possibly could, near the area where a large portion of my family is from. I'm glad I did move. While the village I live in may be a bit rough due to manufacturing job loss, it's a sight better than Atlanta's traffic and I foresee great things for this region, provided we all survive the coming storms.

@Hippiekinkster

2 жыл бұрын

I'm doing my best to move from Atlanta to western NY. I've been here far too long. I lived here from mid 1975 to late 1979, when it was a pretty cool city, then to Houston, and back to Atlanta in August 1989, where I've been ever since (East Cobb, actually). I am sooo over this traffic, the Trumptards and their backwards politics who run the state, the skyrocketing housing costs, the gun culture, the car culture, and the fucking heat. I was born in Rochester and that's the general area I'm going back to.

Thanks great video. I'm a LoHud resident brought up on LI, spent my career in NYC Metro and went ot college upstate. We have our issues, but I'd not trade the variety inside the empire state for anywhere else. I've travelled and hung out in every corner and all the the sections are unique-From Chataugua county to Plattsburgh, Lake Ontario to Montauk, ADKs to NYC . Mountains, Ocean, Great Lakes, Finger Lakes, Rivers and Lakes..and the Mega City of the country.

Every time. Every damn time I tell someone I’m from New York they automatically‘s assume I’m from the city. I’m from the Syracuse area and I always have to remind them that New York State isn’t just the city. (especially foreigners 😂) There’s hundreds of miles of rolling hills, the Finger Lakes, and vast farmland too!

@BokBarber

4 ай бұрын

I'm also living in CNY and I've come to terms with this. Most of the time when you bump into a New Yorker out of NY state, they're from the city. Not only because NYC and its surrounding metro are 2/3rds of the state's population but because they also tend to be more mobile.

This was excellent. NYer born and raised here. Now living in NJ.

Love my state. Thank you for covering the entire state. Im nyc born and raised but went to college in Buffalo and sleep away camp in the Hamptons. Made many friends from other cities from that and my sorority so I have gotten the opportunity to experience so many of our major cities. I definitely suggest taking an Amtrak train from Buffalo to nyc on the local track in the winter, that view is beautiful. Only place I haven't been is northeast Ny.

One interesting aspect of the Erie Canal is that, in the early 1800s, it was a conduit for migration to the Midwest. My ancestors left western Massachusetts in 1828, went west on the Canal to Lake Erie, and then down the Lake to settle in Ohio. The Canal allowed whole families to migrate, along with as much of their household goods as they could pay to fit onto flatboats. It was a major improvement over Conestoga wagons.

The quality of these long-form videos is absolutely unreal. Could listen to you talk all day! Keep it up From one great city to another 🇫🇷 Paris 🇺🇲 New York 💪💪💪

This content is so comprehensive for KZread videos. Like this is becoming PBS special length or some kind of streaming service documentary.

@christopherarchuleta3669

2 жыл бұрын

56:00 I visited NYC for the first time last month, and the guest speaker's take is spot on. Regardless if you want to live there or not, it's an experience I think everyone should have if they're able. Interacting with so many different people is a beautiful thing, and to do so in an iconic urban landscape is just incredible!

I originally have family from Harlem, and also visited Suffolk County a lot - I really do cherish the moments I've spent on Manhattan and Long Island. If I had money, I'd move there of course ^^ But of course I want to visit Upstate New York as well, wich I never got the chance for. Now I live in Berlin-Brandenburg (Germany), but other than New York the margravian region outside of Berlin is flat as a pancake.

Im from Port Jervis! Ayyyyy finally a shoutout.

As a native New Yorker, I'd like to commend you on your well written and graphically accurate opus that contained tasty nuggets - one in particular was the size of Adirondack Park relative to the combined area of a handful of popular national parks.

25:15 in the 1950's, Elmira had a population of 56,000. As the railroads went bankrupt or merged, the population has dropped to 26,000. Manufacturing in Elmira has not shrunk, but the railroads and associated businesses employed many people.

Aww was hoping for more on the Southern Tier’s contribution to tech and the military industries throughout the Cold War era, and possibly the multiple historical attempts of upstate and downstate to separate into separate states

This guy was from palenville, saugerties, Kingston. Great areas 👍 Gotta check out the mountains out west. Nice rolling hills past Phoenicia but I won't tell where 😝

I was born and raised in the Northeast Bronx ( Go Yankees !! ) . Though I live in Virginia now I would never trade my childhood and youth growing up in NYC. It was an education in and of itself. Good Job !!

I’m from St. Catharines never thought I’d hear it brought up on yt! Shout out from Canada

Wonderful video! Just a note - the Adirondacks aren't part of the Appalachians, but are the result of a completely different and more recent orogeny.

@Hildagaard_in_the_woods

Жыл бұрын

The orogeny that made the Adirondacks is older than the Appalachian mountains. It’s like 1-2 billion years old

In 2016 I flew into New York, I was there i believe 3 days to watch the ball drop. I Loved New York. My first time visiting.

As someone who lives in Western New York near Buffalo, thank you for showing that NY isn't ALL just NYC. Lots of people don't realize that. I'm sure most New Yorkers would be glad to see it.

I was excited to see this video, even thought I’m not from New York, I was really excited to hear stuff that I didn’t know before. I liked how u went in-depth on the state’s borders in ur other videos. This one, not so much, I was confused, lost, and all over the place, the whole time you were explaining the border. I have general knowledge of the NY border already that’s why it was a lil easy to follow along but please can you go back to the way you were doing it before on ur next videos. 😂🙏🏾

@rosealexander9007

9 ай бұрын

The state borders six U.S. states: Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, and Connecticut, Rhode Island (across Long Island Sound), Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. And of course it boarders Canada. The state of NY is over 554 thousand square feet. NY city is 302 square feet

Yay!!! My home state!!

An hour long video about my home state? Aw hell yeah!

Love your intro - still watching & haven’t finished yet but had to say how great the beginning was!

Im SO glad you pronounced Poughkeepsie right lmao

It is nice to hear from a couple of people from New York. I went through New York last summer and visited Buffalo, Niagara Falls, the women’s rights national historic site in Seneca Falls, the Capitol building in Albany plus Martin Van Buren’s home just south of Albany. Buffalo has the Theodore Roosevelt’s Inangural NHS. It was very interesting. I went to New York City in 2018 and only saw five national historic sites. There is so much to see and do. I was only there two days and one night. I did it on a budget by staying in an Airbnb and taking the subway. I went to the crown of the Statue of Liberty but now the stuff from up there is in a museum. It would be nice to see the museum.

I'm a Western New Yorker (Wyoming County, which just kind of hovers between the rust belt and Appalachia... but more toward the latter). The culture is so different from the City that I feel more like I'm in a foreign country in Manhattan than if I'm in, say, Toronto. For a while, I remember them trying to push the "Buffaronto corridor" as a thing. It's also still a Yankee enclave--New Englanders just skipping over NYC and settling whole Yankee towns out there, so little New England towns are also more familiar. It's a weird little cross of cultures!

@BokBarber

4 ай бұрын

Having grown up in downstate NY and then lived in the midwest and CNY, I can say that Central/Western NY feels almost like you took the people out of the Great Lakes midwest and plopped them into a northeastern locale. It's not that simple of course, but that's the best way to sum it up in a sentence. Upstate NY is by no means the same as the midwest, but it feels allot closer to that than it is to NYC.

I mean New York City HAS to be the coolest, it's where all the Superheroes are from. Granted that means all the aliens, supervillains, crazy elder god cults and kaiju end up there too but I mean...Spider-Man is pretty cool.

@prion42

2 жыл бұрын

It's just lucky that all the villains attack New York, if they attacked Bismarck or Milwaukee, no one would be there to defend it.

@miggypeso909

2 жыл бұрын

Nah

“S-U-N-Y”, yeah we just say Soony

i am always sad to watch these types of videos without even mentioning the Binghamton area, including Endicott and Johnson City. All are very important in New York and the US history, and usually forgotten

I'm envious of your maps. Thank you for all your work.

15:39..Last year Yonkers passed Rochester..WATCH OUT BUFFALO!!!

@deanbianco4982

Жыл бұрын

Yonkers doesn't count as it is engulfed and subsumed by the NYC Metro area.

Another great video! I already can't wait for the next one. You cover so much and you're very informative. Learned some things about New York I never knew 💯✌

“Nasso” 😭 it’s “nass-aw” lol

@RealConstructor

Жыл бұрын

No it’s not. Both are wrongly pronounced.

@user-rb4cj7mb8f

Ай бұрын

@@RealConstructorIm from nassau… its like nas saw. I guess you mean splitting the s from the au is wrong, and i agree. the best way to describe it is NASA but change the end to aw

@RealConstructor

Ай бұрын

@@user-rb4cj7mb8f It’s originally a German duchy, a Dutch royal family title/name and a Luxemburgs grand duchy family title/name. Americans butcher the pronunciation.

I used to study at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn. I lived two years on campus and then two years in the city… …both totally awesome and pretty cool.

I am from Dutchess County in New York. So much great history there. I love to study it.

Guttenberg = "Goo"-tenberg.

People from Alaska and Hawaii waiting for a video about their state: 👶👦🧑👨👨‍🦳👴💀🪦. Love the vid tho

@X1GenKaneShiroX

2 жыл бұрын

That’s probably going to be a decade from now considering TII only posted 5 videos relating to US states in a timeframe of one entire year.

The adirondacks are NOT part of the Appalachians. The Adirondacks are part of the Canadian shield and are totally separate and created at a different time, and were once estimated to approach 30k feet in height in antiquity.

@BokBarber

4 ай бұрын

Correct. This is one of the few mistakes I noticed as well. The video was mostly accurate, but that statement was 100% wrong.

17:47 The NY Department of Education building with a spire on the right is the former headquarters of the Delaware and Hudson Company, which successfully pivoted from being a gravity railroad / canal company into a steam and diesel railroad company. It is the oldest transportation company in the US.

This was a very well made video and worth it being an hour long! Keep it up!

Fun fact: the mountain and water on New York's state seal is Mount Beacon overlooking the Hudson River, as seen from the vantage point of Washington's Headquarters in Newburgh NY. Washington's Headquarters was George Washington's last outpost in the American revolution, and a few vital things happened here (and while Washington traveled back and forth to the Cantonment in nearby New Windsor). The Purple Heart was created while Washington was stationed here, the official ceasefire from Britain was received formally ending the war (and the nearby headquartered Poughkeepsie Journal was the first newspaper in the country to report that the war was over), the Newburgh Conspiracy happened here (an act to incite rebellion conspired by some disillusioned soldiers by pressuring Washington to become a king, which Washington famously "took off his spectacles" and rebuked.) The Hudson River itself played an enormous role in the Revolution, being the vital waterway bisecting the then colonies into the industrious north and material rich south, and Mount Beacon, as the name suggests, was used as both a vantage point and to send smoke signals which could be seen from West Point. In addition to being important to the war, Washington's Headquarters is important even in a meta context of historical preservation within the United States; it was the very first historic site to be preserved in the US, having been acquired and preserved by NY state starting in 1850. So while it seems generic the mountain range on the seal is steeped in symbolism.

These are awesome! Always so stoked when these pop up in my feed.

I always loved the borders segment, and I must say I disliked it now. It was hard to follow without seeing the border, even with a decent knowledge of NY's shape. I hope you go back to the old way. Anyway, great video and series :)

@thishereanakinguy

2 жыл бұрын

He also didn't mention the Native American reservations and their impact on the border

Don’t stop what you do man, These are awesome. And gold to someone like me who has any interest in geography. 👍

Very good! A lot of info and history packed into this video.

68 minutes. Bonkers! Good stuff!

Another awesome video. So good. Thank you

Awesome content as always, C. Thank you for all the effort you put on your videos!

@peterhenderson9331

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and ur welcome !

22:50 Letchworth Gorge, named for a Quaker farmer who bequeathed his property to the state for a park.

Interesting history of New York. Living in NYC as a kid it was weird explaining the boros to out of staters.

While this video was over an hour in length a few notable things missing for those curious, Yes there is a LOT more fun facts about the state: Woodstock, the first AC power plant by Nichola Tesla at Niagra Falls, The birthplace of the American Navy at Whitehall, Last of the Mohegans took place in Lake George/Glens Falls, NY state is home to 6 of the 36 meromictic lakes in the world, the fingerlake region is known as the White Wine Capital of the Country, Saratoga Springs has a naturally occurring geyser, Tidal forces can act on the hudson river as far north as Troy, which is only 3' above sea level, Seneca lake is 618' deep and has been used to test sonar, submarines and dive equipment, Seneca lake is deeper than the Great Lake of Lake Erie, Many of the finger lakes are so deep that they do not freeze over, The historic "Cannons over the Lakes" phenomenon, Letchworth State Park has been nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the East", Corning Museum of Glass (Gorilla glass that is on every smart phone protector was invented here), NY is home to 2/8 Ivy League Schools though it gives access to far more through its affordable SUNY system, The Tughill Plateau gets on average 200" of snow a year or more than Jackson Hole Wy and has a thriving snowmobile culture, Sarycuse has one of the last wild Atlantic Salmon Runs, If you hike all 46 high peaks (mts above 4,000') You are known as a 46'er, The applician trail cuts through the state, The state is rich in mineral wealth such as natural gas, Iron, Lead and Titanium, The worlds hardest Garnett is mined here, Hercimer Diamonds are a popular tourist find in CNY.

This is fantastic content. So well researched and so thorough. Presented in such a concise and intelligent manner. I enjoyed every last second of this video. I have already subscribed to your channel and now plan to binge watch more of your content. Thank you for this top-drawer video. All the imagery you used in the video along with the narration was also excellent and makes the video so deeply engaging. This must have taken you a very long time to produce, and again, thank you for providing it for people like me who really enjoy this kind of content. Very, very well done.

Great well researched video

Can you mention the highest natural Highpoint and lowest natural lowpoint in each state video in the future

Bernie Sanders was born in NYC & raised in Brooklyn.

Keep ‘em coming man

Thanks for these great videos! Greetings from Germany

I am obsessed with this series.

Thank you for explaining the whole state of NY and not just 302 square feet of it.

Great video. I did cringe at some of the place name mispronunciations but not being a local, you can't be expected to nail them. We've got some weird ones. For example Oneida -- Oh-Nye-dah

Great video very insightful love my state !

As someone named Carter who is currently studying geography and Urban and Regional planning this video made my day. You Literally feel like my spiritual doppelganger cuz this Literally the sort of thing I live and breath for daily. Also the attention to detail is unmatched in bringing up how metro areas actually contribute to overall population of the area as well as how the climate has changed to subtropical. I thought you were joking at first until I fact checked it and realized you were not capping. I'm sure most people don't care or notice but this content is a just s tier above other geography channels who don't actually feel educated on geographical information and make mistakes and use old statistics and facts ect. Feel like some channels just use basic geography facts for content but this is actually the in depth dive I need on specific geographic areas because geography isn't just looking at maps of country boarders and statistics.

I live in Poughkeepsie NY

Awesome vid!!!! I watched the whole thing lol, it’s rlly in depth u don’t get this much info anywhere else on yt

Great video. Thank you.

Amazing! Keep it going!

Great video thanks.

The finger lakes region town of watkins glen has a race track that hosted formula one back in the 1960s and 70s and currently hosts nascar as well as the six hours of the glen endurance sports car race, one of the most prestigious races in the us for sports cars

@Hippiekinkster

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Pop Festival the town and raceway hosted, featuring the Band, the Allman Bros., and the Grateful Dead. 1970, IIRC. Around 600,000 people groovin' to the bands (and tabs lol). Watkins Glen State Park is one of the top rated state parks in the country.

Lake Placid is truly one of my favorite places in the country!