Trae, I love this series. As a Southern man from Mississippi that has spent 50 years being horrified at daily occurrences in the south, but can still recognize the extraordinary people who remain here, I truly salute you for using your platform by casting this light. The south has produced some great minds. At this rate your name will be recognized among them for years to come.

@vermontsownboy6957

10 ай бұрын

This nawthenah appreciates reading a comment like this. From afar it's easy for this Yankee to whole-cloth demonize the entire south (it's collective history, etc) , and I'm heartened to learn that doing so is wrong, and that I am wrong. I look forward to learning more.

@mikereseigh

10 ай бұрын

It raises my spirits as a man in and from the north hearing people like yourself and Trae . It's a great thing.

@mikereseigh

10 ай бұрын

​@vermontsownboy6957 that's basically what I said but you just said it better.

@nealgant5291

10 ай бұрын

There are dozens of us.@@mikereseigh ;)

@tarico4436

10 ай бұрын

Faulkner. Only the best novelist America ever produced.

He admitted in one breath, “[Diverse outsiders] keep moving here and improving the place!” This man deserves our attention and protection.

As a Caribbean native, I'd never even heard about the Gullah Geechee people before... but the moment that lady opened her mouth it was like listening to one of my relatives from the islands. Yeah you're right, there's alot of the south that doesn't get proper recognition.

@rittherugger160

10 ай бұрын

I grew up with them around. Mostly the barrier islands around Charleston to Savannah. Ever see the movie 'The Prince of Tides"? It's about a new teacher (white) sent to live on one of those islands to educate the children.

@RevShifty

10 ай бұрын

There's a content creator named Sunn m'Cheaux who's Gullah Geechee born and grew up to be a Harvard professor. Every single time he features their language, it's almost like the entire Caribbean stands up to clap at jokes that sailed over everyone else's heads. It's amazing to watch, especially given how they were always treated as extra less than and even completely uneducated for sounding that way. The amount of culture they kept alive despite all efforts to the contrary is truly impressive. Language, culture, spiritual beliefs, even crafts. I'm never not surprised when I see mention of them somewhere.

@hrwilliams9278

10 ай бұрын

Oh so true. Visited the area and immediately was transported to the Caribbean islands. Total shock.

@adrianred236

10 ай бұрын

I though the same.

@alvallac2171

10 ай бұрын

*a lot Two words, not one. Think of it like this: a few, a little, a bunch, a _whole_ bunch, a lot, a _whole_ lot.

I’m white, I’m southern, and I just learned some wonderful information. It didn’t make me ashamed or make me hate myself or anyone else. It made me more informed and appreciative of the area where I grew up. Learning means we don’t repeat past mistakes. Thanks Trae for saying what many kids will never hear in school, which is such a shame.

Thanks again Trae, as a southern farmboy, i love to hear sense and decency spoken with my accent. Even those of us living here occasionally need reminding that the south is more than aldean fans and trump flags. My little area has went pretty damn stupid, thanks for the pick me up and reminder rhe south is still worth saving

I was born and raised in Wisconsin, and moved to Virginia when I was 20 years old. I can't even describe how little I knew about the South when I arrived. Thanks for educating those of us who grew up in the North.

@katboss4886

10 ай бұрын

Me too. Same age. Glad I live in California now though

@TroIIingThemSoftly

10 ай бұрын

I mean, Virgina basically Diet South. If you want the full-on diabeetus version, you need to go at least as far as Tennessee.

@katboss4886

10 ай бұрын

Lived in LA & GA too. Does that count?

@kennybachman35

10 ай бұрын

@@TroIIingThemSoftlyif you want full blown AIDS then Alabama’s the place for you. 🤣

@kennybachman35

10 ай бұрын

@@katboss4886not as bad as Mississippi but pretty close.

As a Canadian with a love of history ( real history) I am so appreciative of these videos. Thank you Trae.

Love Trae like chicken! I'm also a 70 year-old white guy, & he's hilariosly right.

@alvallac2171

10 ай бұрын

*hilariously

@MX.Fantastic

9 ай бұрын

Good on you, OG.

I was born in MO, raised in VA, and now live in TN. I'm 93% White, 6% Black, and 1% unknown. My great-grandparents were married in TN in 1900. Great grandma was half black. It wasn't legal then, but I found a copy of their marriage certificate. I think all of us from the South are mixed race.

@mariag.8242

10 ай бұрын

That is so true. Most of the people worried about mixing with Black folks should be worried about the civil war in their chromosomes 😂

@kennybachman35

10 ай бұрын

White and black are not genetic identifiers.

@j.b.macadam6516

10 ай бұрын

Born in Florida, Family mostly from East Texas, I was a little disappointed when my DNA test came back ALL Northwest European White guy! A little more diversity would have been nice!

@kennybachman35

10 ай бұрын

@@j.b.macadam6516 well North West Europeans came from somewhere too, likely Indo-Eurasian Aryan (like vikings), or Caucasian like the Jews, French, Italians, Greeks, Slavs, etc. and with PLENTY of commingling of the DNA’s. Nobody “came from” Northwest Europe. We originated in Africa as far as we know and spread east throughout the equatorial regions of Mesopotamia, Persia, India, and the South Pacific. And then as the ice receded we spread north and south, and transoceanic either across the the Bearing Strait ice/land bridge (like camels and horses did in reverse, from the Americas to Asia) or through the early transoceanic voyagers. The name Iran actually means “land of the Aryan”. Thats where we get our dominant and recessive blonde and ginger hair, and blue/green/grey sometimes even red eyes. And mind you this is only our most current timeline, if we find older remains someday it may rewrite the entire history of anthropology. Perhaps the first African hominids came from somewhere else entirely, but we know for a fact that we came from them. We’ve certainly had periods of population isolation, enough to create 3 distinct ancestral DNA profiles, but none have divergent enough allele frequencies to create a different species yet. So we know these populations did not originate independently.

@j.b.macadam6516

10 ай бұрын

@@kennybachman35Unfortunately, DNA testing does not go back that far. Of course, we all originated in Africa. However, there have been many migrations out of Africa, and all over the Globe. Through sites such as Ancestry and 21 and Me, DNA results only reveal a few millennia of information!

I'm a black women born and raised in the deep south. He is right we are very diverse. There are Hispanic, Vietnamese, and many other races here. Both in elementary and high school many years ago I had a couple of teachers from India. Now I'm also a veteran and was shocked to find out there was racism up north when stationed there but I was young then. So thanks for spreading the word about the diversity of the South.

The interesting thing about Andrew Jackson is even though I believe it was the Cherokees that helped save his arm when he took a bullet during a battle. When gold was discovered on Cherokee land, they all had to go.

@MX.Fantastic

9 ай бұрын

Major League Hall of Fame-tier asshole right there

@richiejohnson

9 ай бұрын

Trump's favorite president

@IMeMineWho

9 ай бұрын

Yup. The US way!🙄

Don't forget the Eastern Band of Cherokee! Politics tend to destroy the narrative of a "new south" and I know of people who have moved out or will not move there for their daughters' sakes. Keep the education coming, Trae! Someone there has to be an advocate and BOOM! You're it.

@tiptipton1588

10 ай бұрын

As an eastern band member it made me happy to see trae bringing awareness to people

Born and raised in Louisiana. Moved to a tiny town in southern Indiana in late 2019. I'm still suffering culture shock. I'm not sure there is a single black family in this town. These people consider whole wheat flour a spice. My shrimp etouffee and gumbo are becoming semi-famous amongst those with taste buds though.

@tjmul3381

10 ай бұрын

Start catering. The love will spread......and a couple of extra bucks don't hurt either. p.s. what's a 'tint town"?

@jt659

10 ай бұрын

My bad, that was meant to be a "tiny" town. I'll edit. @@tjmul3381

@goatforest9974

9 ай бұрын

Man I had the same experience when I moved from Louisiana to northern Arkansas for a year.

@MX.Fantastic

9 ай бұрын

Sounds like me moving to Missouri for a year. They’re delusional about the quality of their food. At least we have sunshine and spices down here.

@royjacksonjr.4447

9 ай бұрын

Good for you! Poor Yankees ain't got decent cuisine! We gotta teach 'em how to eat good! (Hello from Marrero, LA!)

This made me happy. There is no better time to be a Southerner.Good food and Trump indictment 4.

@markwilliams2620

10 ай бұрын

Thank you, JohJah!

@MrMarinus18

10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately the Gerrymandering, voter ID, mass incarceration and other things things are still going strong. It's not that southerners are evil, it's that the republicans have managed to neuter most good people.

@TheNightWatcher1385

10 ай бұрын

Besides all the political iconoclasm.

@mikereseigh

10 ай бұрын

Those are good points for the south and as much bad news comes out of there with the racism and book bans and everything else I welcome good news.

@emperorfrozenbillrulerofan8767

10 ай бұрын

Yay. Just TWO things good about the South. Real amazing there.

Dear Trea, thank you very much. As a transplant from the north, I enjoy understanding the diversity and culture of the south-especially in my new home state Florida. Best wishes.

@Chick4choice

10 ай бұрын

As a 6th generation native Floridian of Scottish descent…whose family were one of two families to officially “settle” what is now Englewood, Florida on the gulf coast….. do not be tricked into thinking all Florida folk are repugnant De Santis boot-lickers. When my great-great grandfather brought his family to Florida it was little more than swamp land, Seminole Indians escaping the trail of tears and runaway slaves. He wanted to be away from religion, from government and from people and institutions that had divided the country some few years earlier. The Goff’s (Gough) moved into central Florida, Polk County and settled for good. Even into the 1990s all my great aunts and uncles on that side of the family lived within walking distance of one another. And we children benefitted from so many elders looking after us. They farmed the land, raised livestock and were generally self sufficient. A far cry from this nouveau-Florida who elects tyrants who revoke the rights of its citizens.

@collnss

10 ай бұрын

@@Chick4choiceare you related to the Goffs and do you know when the came to Florida. My mother was a Goff in Kentucky and we are having a difficult time tracing her direct line past her great grandfather.

God Bless you Trae! I already knew about the Gullah people (I watched Gullah Gullah Island with my kids) and it saddens me to think that this wonderful community might be endangered.

I love these Trae Crowder podcasts! They are so educational as well as entertaining! 👍

@IMeMineWho

9 ай бұрын

And some of us love Trae like Quorn meatless homestyle cutlets!😆

Texas hasn't just got German roots, polish and ukranians also settled there. I grew up eating all kinds of east european foods and sweets and when I left texas in 2020 i found out a lot of it was exclusive to texas.

@paigeharrison3909

9 ай бұрын

Not only am I a Texan of mainly German descent, but my BF is Czech, another group heavily represented in Central Texas.

Thank you for this Trae. Now that it's becoming illegal to teach history in schools, any place history is being taught is a valuable resource.

I guess those CRT bans are also removing the Trail of Tears from our history, too.😢

Love the series, Trae! From a white liberal Southerner who lives near Augusta.

Thank you for mentioning that us native people are still here in the south east, most people don’t know indigenous people are still here and though I’m not part of the gulla geechee community but I’m still glad they got mentioned too

I have really been into these Trae hosted history run downs. I have learned at least two new things in his series of these shorts. Thanks Trae and creators for making this all happen. thumb up

Dang Trae, I guess that I was just lucky today getting your video in my feed today! The video and the comments are spot on! I have subscribed as a result! Live long and prosper, y’all!

WJ Cash's "The mind of the South" was my first reading assignment in college. Highly recommended.

You’re really helping a lot of people by just bringing awareness, most other people won’t listen if it comes directly from our own mouths so it’s good that there are compassionate caring people like you helping make people aware that stereotypes don’t always reflect reality

@alvallac2171

10 ай бұрын

*awareness. Most (to fix your comma splice run-on) *reality.

Trae, you have the best videos. Yes the south is diverse. That doesn't mean everybody has the same rights. The rights are diverse as the south.

I wish everyone was as welcoming as you were. There was a huge Vietnamese population in AR after the fall of Saigon. We're better for our diversity. My ex was biracial, and he explained to me that stealing people from places 1,000s miles apart don't have a common language or customs.

My grandfather grew up on the family plantation (Yes, plantation.) in Cocoa, Florida, and was a lifelong Klansman and Wallace Dixiecrat (The one thing Mom inherited from him was a Klan pin.). Most of the relatives gradually moved north; to Georgia and South Carolina. But we were always Episcopalian Southerners, not Baptist Southerners. And most of you won't understand that, so Trae, I may need your help explaining it. And don't get me started on our 1965 family vacation when we decided to divert to Vicksburg on the way back to take in the battlefield and then went to Jackson to cover the rest, then upon leaving Jackson we picked up a Mississippi State Trooper who followed us all the way to the Tennessee line to make sure 1) nothing happened to these damnfool Yankees who had a Johnson County, Iowa, license plate same as a lot of the Freedom Riders, and 2) we kept our noses pointed north.

Originally from the Chesapeake Bay area, Tidewater, Virginia, you're right about the diversity. Had forgotten about it, but one of my favorite movies is an early Denzel Washing pic, Mississippi Masala, humorous and beautiful insights into the Indian diaspora.Highly recommend, if you can find it. Great episode, Trae and team! 💜✌️😎🍀

I have a theory that one major cause of the diversity down south is plain economical. It's cheaper to live in the south. Assuming due to direction of the powers in be.

Thanks for the history lesson. Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself during these trying times.

Excellent and informative. As a descendant of Caribbean immigrants, I have little knowledge of the southern culture. Thanks.

Thank you Trae for teaching me stuff.😊

Love this content!

I love this so much. As a southerner who moved north (grandbabies), I’m surprised how little some northerners know about the south.

I'm really enjoying this series, keep up the great work!

That's the first time I've heard the institution of Chattel Slavery and The Civil War called "Less than illustrious history of race relations."

When I moved from South Carolina to Charlottesville to go to college, everybody assumed that, because I was from South Carolina, I lived in either a big mansion with white columns surrounded by cotton fields or a tarpaper shack. I had a hard time convincing people that I lived in a four bedroom brick Colonial in the suburbs and listened to Santana and Led Zeppelin like, you know, everybody else.

Excellent commentary. Seminole scouts of mixed hertiage were employed by the Buffalo soldiers in South Texas along the Rio Grande river in the 1800s. There is a cemetary near Ft Clark Springs/Brackettville Texas. Several of the scouts were awarded Medals of Honor.

I was born and raised as one of a southern family that goes back hundreds years . Left at 18 because living with that mentality was torture for any sane person. My memories are a lot of black people being abused by a bunch of white nose pickers. My parents were continually apologizing for what we saw around us, always pointing out that wasn’t how our family saw things and “ it’s a few bad apples “ . Mote like an orchard. Love your work

Thank you, Trae, for bringing Southern diversity into the light. As a fellow Southerner (Texas and Florida) I too see the stereotypes. They are sometimes amusing, but not accurate. We should embrace and enjoy our Southern diversity!

The Batman analogy was brilliant. 😊 Also, that cartoon villain in charge of Florida needs to be tied to watch this.

Well conceived and well executed! Thank you Mr. Crowder. Love you funnier stuff, but please give us more like this too. I'd love to hear your insights on the people who fought the coal mine wars for instance.

You're the best! History with humor. Love you like pecan pie.

Great one Trae!

What an important KZread channel!!! Trae Crowder ....You Rock!!! Explaining everything about the TRUTH of the South is truly needed. From the truth about coal mines and coal culture to the different slave tribes etc.....These histories are grossly overshadowed by Hollywood FAKE crap (Dukes of Hazard ...etc) and the country has a horrible stereotypical view of what the South is all about. Keep up the info and informing the country about what it REALLY is all about. You are much respected!!!!

this is great. i suspect most outsiders picture the ethnic diversity of, like, old western movies, or (nashville) country music videos when they think of the south

Thank you Trae. Your commentary is always welcome ❤

Great video about something nobody talks about. Plus Cubans were in Florida before Anglos like me showed up. Places here are named after them like Perico Island or Philippi Creek (after Felipe Bermudez).

Wow. One of these about my home. I remember encountering Gullah people in my life. The guy pumping gas, the neighbor's maid. Hell when I was pre-school I had a Gullah Nanny. Then to complete the circle, there was an old fort (Moultrie) over on Sullivan's Island where the Seminole Chief Osceola was held as a prisoner of war.

As always nice video, thanks for the info

Thank You, Trae... Just Thank You!

I grew up in Massachusetts, my husband grew up in Alabama. I did not know how little I knew about the south until I went down to visit family! Thanks for the further education

As a Jewish girl, one of the books I grew up reading was 3 for Mississippi and learned of the 2 Jewish boys/young men getting murdered along with a young black man working for voting rights in the 60s. Most people do not know this. I will pass on visiting the South.

This was great stuff and insight (from a marxist northwesterner).

Thanks for helping this Canadian learn some REAL American history.

I love the segment on the Seminole people.🙂

Trying to put a shine on a what is a basket case seems to be a southern thing.

Thank you so much for this. Love ya Trae!

Your program is refreshing evidence of diversity in the south. And yes Seminole history is a good example of never give up. Lots of people have moved there from elsewhere after air conditioning was available. What has been pretty constant is white leadership has been in control and the general white population resents other folks. The increasing diversity gives them more targets for their fear and distrust; voter suppression is in vogue again. Trump and others appeal to these sentiments. On a personal level southerners are warm, helpful, friendly, the history and politics - not so much.

I really enjoyed that good job thanks

To me, the South is the most delicious course of the melting pot that is the United States due to its diversity. To honor the South is to honor all of them. It’s not only the proper way, but it’s the only way

Thank you! This is priceless knowledge.

Support Your Local Suthrn Y'all 💯🌻😎💕

I love the analogy to having to show Batman’s parents getting killed I. Front of him to show why and how he became an emo bat! Strangely apt analogy to having to discuss slavery and how and why it’s central in America’s origin story.

Great video as always. Thanks, Trae. Shared.

Love you man. Thanks for this.

Awesome! Thank you!

As a full blooded Gullah Geechee native, I approve of this message

Brilliantly and expertly done.. BRAVO!! 👏👏

What an interesting and informative video!

Wow, I really learned a lot. Thank you, sincerely.

Thank you for doing this.

Cool! Thanks!

wow Trae! thanks for this!

Thanks for this.

Well done, Trae. Gulla makes a great shibboleth. "Tell me what the lady said". Sweet. A good way to detect those damn Yan.... Er, um, our friends from up Nawth.

You are a prince among men, Trae. Thanks so much for this. 'Only trouble is, your speech pattern is contagious. I'ma try git summa my trumplistic nimrod acquaint'nces to see this video by sharin'. Awright, then. (Mexican American L.A. native)

I first heard of the Gullah people when i visited Charleston. I love their baskets. It's a shame when cultures are lost. What the government did to Native Americans is atrocious.

Thanks Trae! I learned a few things.

Nice, watched it twice

Very well done! Thank you... 😎

Excellent video!

Excellent video

Another comment since I have now lived in Texas for 46 years is that I remember when the first Vietnamese came to Texas, one had a cross burned in his front yard. That is long passed as far as I know. However, I lived in very southeast Texas for a while, about 40 years ago. Extreme racism still existed there at that time. Not sure about now. I now live near Austin, one of the most diverse cities in Texas. I have actually worked with two Vietnamese refugees. One was taken out of Vietnam at the end of the war in Vietnam. The other escaped later.

Thanks. As a Brit, I learnt quite a lot from this.

Thank you !

Im an Aussie , yeh its in my handle I know, but I enjoy playing guitar and enjoy Blues/Jazz music and I always wondered about the blues standard Seminole blues. now I know a little more about the one true American art form, Thank you.

Fabulous vid Trae

I enjoy your footnoting of sources for your videos, and the CC license is a big win too. Good work, to whomever put the Tube of the U together. Doing it well does not meaning doing it the hard way. Only thing is I would like to see the version of the CC your are using to encapsulate your reuse policy, is it 3 or something else? You might have to add it to the comments as Google is somehow taken a standoffish position with respect to license references with the CC domain.

As a mixed man from rural Texas… I’ve always loved the South… but I had to grow into it.

Great work!

Very well done, sir.😊

Not nice to exclude Oklahoma. We are southern, at least the bottom half is. We cover all the ists, racist, sexist, ect. We have banned the Outsiders, the book! That wonderful, wonderful book, 😢 I love that book still. We're not far enough west to be in the west, and we're to far south to be midwest. And, texas is our biggest college football rival.

@jackkadaka9020

10 ай бұрын

SE Hinton is what inspired my reading as a 12-13yr old. Outsiders, Rumble Fish and my fave, That Was Then ,This Is Now.

@kreiner1

10 ай бұрын

@jackkadaka9020 I am 51 years old, and I can still recite the opening paragraph. And I got to talk to her 5th grade. I got picked to ask her a question, it was at school and in front of everybody I asked. Why did you write about boys so much? I know it's not a great question, but I was really young. It hurt my heart in a way that I still don't understand.

@thomthom6268

10 ай бұрын

All of Texas? That's a lotta schools! /s OK is MidSouth, ok? [And yerall's capital & grounds are gorgeous. People should go there.]

@kreiner1

10 ай бұрын

@thomthom6268 lol the longhorns have been playing OU since 1900. Thank you, Texas is wonderful, as long as it's not football, lol. Really Texas has some beautiful places.

When I think of America I think of the South. The one thing I don't understand is why some not nice groups have latched on to the Confederate battle flag.

Growing up in the North I had a prejudice about the South, a stereotype of KKK racists, barefoot hillbillies and small towns of backwards fat & lazy Bubbas. But I loved the music and food and once I worked in some Southern communities as a political organizer (for the Democrats) I realized there are millions of good people there, as educated and cultured, compassionate and progressive as in any city in the North or East. There are just less of them and what we see of the South in the media keeps reconfirming our prejudices. The difference between Massachusetts or New York and Georgia or North Carolina politics are just 5 or 10 % and as our generations grow old and pass on along with more people moving to Southern states, those differences get less and less. When voting rights get strengthened and the barriers to low-income voters get removed, the South will rise again in a different way than what the old rebel cry ever intended..

I really appreciate you.

Had to stop and comment "Emo, crime-fighting bat." LMFAOOOO

There are several brewers down in the German Texas that have documents that certify their brews dating back to the 1800 and 1900s,