Exploring The Deep South's Worst Ghettos

[@NickJohnson]

Here's the entire Deep South Playlist from my travels: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqiVYnuOr7J1aNU

[@CMoore8539]

Thank you Nick! I’ll definitely check them out.

[@nkithan8858]

I'm a new subscriber I like your vlogs

[@MelvinJ64]

Did the "why files" channel copy your mascot idea, right down to his mascot fish having ex wives just like mappy 😆

[@blackmaster999]

America looks worse than third-world countries.

[@Milkchakra]

Poverty porn.

[@johnmule9419]

I'm from New Orleans and you nailed your closing comments about the city. You can talk about pride all you want but actually showing it is a much tougher thing to do. This crisis did not originate with Katrina (2005) it's been decades in the making.

[@boogitybear2283]

It’s the worst city I ever been to. I religiously go to the Mississippi Coast and knowing NOLA is so close, I refuse to go there. It’s too dangerous.

[@wisenfunny]

Fact!!!!

[@jpriest2491]

Yea stolen money by politions

[@naomievlahogeorge7958]

It’s awful everywhere when resources are extremely limited on this planet - Louisiana is the poster child for immensely rich state/poor population. 😔

[@naomievlahogeorge7958]

@@jpriest2491and corporations. When it’s cheaper to pay fines than follow the law for the good of the populace as a whole, you get Louisiana…

[@davemckee4907]

Just because you are poor,that dosen't mean you can't be neat and clean.

[@MsLionofJuda]

I agree with you 100%. There is no excuse for it; you can keep the place clean and not allow things to fall in disrepair.

[@ReadTheBible33]

Right!!

[@michaelguest8480]

Not to Mention, Clean and SOBER!

[@joannaazar7396]

💯

[@nunyadambusiness3530]

cleaning products cost money. EVERYTHING COSTS MONEY. how about make public health cleaning products free, birthcontrol and abortion free, and taxes low and wages high. america wouldn't be such garbage. can't help im in a wheelchair and disabled. UNLESS YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE THE CLEANING PRODUCT. SHUT YOUR MOUTH ABOUT POOR PEOPLE HYGIENE. all our money goes to shelter and food.

[@ladytrucker5116]

Love your videos. I don't miss any of them. TY for showing us the real America. New Orleans has never recovered. You are taking your life in your hands there.

[@KCFromTheIE]

Wow this is amazing! Can’t believe how much you get into the depths of America!

[@martinjdesmond]

My spouse purchased an abandoned 100 year old home near Eunice, LA for less than $25,000 although we live in Oregon. The house had no exterior doors and much of the interior house had been stripped. While the people are warm and friendly, there are large numbers who lack initiative which is one of the reasons why there are so many derelict homes in Louisiana.

[@CharleneOrtizTraining]

Exactly because the government wants them dependent on welfare so they can control them and get votes. It's sad and takes away their motivation and they have no sense of personal responsibility.

[@trentdawg2832]

How is the rehab process on that home going??

[@winstonjames2583]

Same question

[@leehines1260]

As a Mississippi native. Jackson is a reflection of the state of Mississippi just sad. The mayor, city council, & the governor are responsible for this mess.

[@christeequilter6143]

Democrats run that city.

[@Woketard]

So are the voters. The voters ALLOWED this to occur.

[@seanmcdirmid]

@@Woketard It is also a consequence of Jim Crow. Segregation and then white flight, and yes, lots of corruption on both sides of the aisle, made Jackson and much of Mississippi what is today. The voters that could care voted with their feet already.

[@billturner8377]

The voters in Mississippi vote for the wrong and same leaders all the time😮 thats why nothing ever changes. Mississippi is such a joke. Mississippi will always be one of the worst states 😰😰 😢😢😢

[@jongallardo8006]

And who voted them in ?? You vote for that crap , guess what ? You get to swim in it and hopefully learn your lesson next time around

[@ronaldnaves2452]

Nick there was a time when I had reservations about you overall. Let me be the first to say that I was dead wrong. Thank you for exposing these god awful conditions in the United States of America

[@SoCalian]

Took me a couple videos of his to appreciate his sarcasm 👍🇺🇲

[@LeoDerix]

@@SoCalian facts same with me..

[@besoamy1]

Looks like Buffalo NY..

[@nrwyatt1]

You should also visit the Mississippi Delta. The first time I visited, I had to choke back the tears. I was shocked to see drug dealers standing at gas stations or outside places of entertainment - not even trying to hide what they’re doing. Large companies have come and gone in the area because they can’t get a work force that won’t steal on the job. Plus, any employers only pay minimum wage, but the prices for everyday items are just as high there as they are in neighboring states. The government is very corrupt on a multitude of levels. The only way to survive is to sell drugs. Crime is INSANELY high. Upon arrival, the oppression and depression there are palpable. The only families that have money are the farmers, but they’re likely mortgaged to death. There are serious problems in the US. I pray for all of us. It’s all heartbreaking.

[@yaiburanakul8505]

May things start making a turnaround very soon.

[@NickJohnson]

I did!

[@martinel2450]

It’s by design. Hollowing out our manufacturing sectors and those opportunities that we were supposedly going to be had after doing that are being offshored to “diversify” the workforce and provide opportunities to developing nations. There’s are tons of accounting and IT jobs that were good paying jobs here years ago just like you hear about blue collar jobs that have been lost. Now all offshore for cheap labor with poor quality. Democrats republicans unions have all ruined this country.

[@jacobriggs7483]

Clarksdale is horrible. Home of the blues indeed

[@waltonsmith7210]

"steal on the job?" Yeah right.

[@Gamesso1slOo0l]

one of the main problems is corporate and individual slum lords, they don't take care of properties, and renters are not expected to spend their money doing what property owners should.

[@ryanihm2051]

Who would have thought allowing capitalism so rampant it becomes feudalism would be a bad idea?

[@scwaty180]

Always a good day when Nick uploads a new video😊 Hope you had a good Thanksgiving, stay safe out there on the road

[@bbsara0146]

all of my friends who went to new orleans thinking it would be this cool southern french / cajun inspired fun-town were utterly dissapointed by how dirty and crime ridden it was.. it wasn't a fun crime ridden like miami is. it was just like depressing crime ridden

[@blakesleyk.7166]

Yep. Utterly depressing.

[@TheMariemarie16]

I go there all of the time. My experience is opposite from your friends but I'm from the South so maybe poverty doesn't shock me. It's poor and infrastructure is old but New Orleans is also cool, cultural and vibrant. Of course if you go to the most impoverished areas you will see bad areas

[@Dangic23]

So true. NOLA looks depressing no matter where you go. Even the vegetation is sad looking. Miami is full of crime, but it’s full of bright lights and palm trees.

[@stevejaubert2892]

@@TheMariemarie16 I tell people when they come to New Orleans go with someone you know. You can go 2-3 blocks one way or another off the tourist and a lot of local routes and you are in a potential hate war zone.

[@TheMariemarie16]

@@stevejaubert2892 I agree, especially applies to people that are maybe not used to poverty, or the South or maybe they are from a small town. I think that if you are from Texas, Mississippi,Alabama, Georgia or parts of Florida that the crime and poverty in New Orleans is really not shockingly different because we all have areas just like that. Can't speak on living in NO but for a visit the good far outweighs the bad. I've never had a bad time. You can easily see where the tourist areas are. If you want to be so safe and away from bad areas just stay in the tourist area.

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

we need fathers, but fathers who are stable and safe, not abusive or otherwise setting bad examples like many of them are, just as many mothers are like that as well; not a good influence.

[@Harley08]

Maybe humans need to get themselves together before they get married or reproduce children.

[@charrua59]

The humidity moisture makes everything rotten much faster

[@chrismoody1342]

You summed it up, standing around not doing a thing. That includes picking the trash in you own yard. I worked repairing an apartment complex full of trash people. Nobody was coming or going leaving for work at 7, 8, 9 in the morning. You’d think the place was a ghost town except for the cars in the parking lot, they were all there. I swear it wasn’t until the end of my workday at 4:00 or so did life appear. I have little sympathy for people who make zero attempt to do anything productive with their life or the time lost in idleness. Why is it my responsibility to support and subsidize this laziness. Standing around doing nothing but waiting for a handout. Man I’ve been broke before just scratching by, but I’d get up everyday a participate in life like GOD expects.

[@72dodge340]

This is probably the best video I've watched in all of '23. Thank you.

[@spencercorby4571]

You should do a rust belt tour, Rockford, Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, etc and Clinton Iowa.

[@NickJohnson]

I did

[@janicestewart6116]

Because of your hard work NICK your subscribers keep ticking up! Thanks for showing us just what is going on in our country. Appreciate you!

[@rapier1954]

Guy wants prison reform okay well how about people just quit going around stealing other people's stuff and doing these sorts of crimes since when is it okay to rip off other people? People need some character reform and to start living by the golden rule again.

[@Cenlalowell]

People will always try to justify bad behavior

[@jasonvoorhees7288]

Bingo 🎯

[@krillin876]

Nick's videos make me feel better about living with parents on expensive Long Island!

[@NickJohnson]

Aww hang in there! ❤️❤️

[@MisterBill593]

Another good eye-opening video. Thanks! You are right, it IS coming to a town near you... and you... and you!

[@205rlg6]

25:57 Jefferson County went bankrupt, but the city of Birmingham has NEVER been bankrupt. I blame all of the communities forming their own cities for the county going into bankruptcy.

[@arnoldfrackenmeyer8157]

I could do the same in Hawaii. There is poverty and trashy neighborhoods in Hawaii. I seriously thought about showing the side of Hawaii nobody ever sees, but decided not to ruin everyone's image of that beautiful state and its glamorous resorts and spectacular scenery.

[@jpriest2491]

Please show the drk side of Hawaii n all the other places. It's important.

[@jpriest2491]

We need to know .

[@arnoldfrackenmeyer8157]

I moved back to the mainland. But if I ever go back I will do it. @@jpriest2491

[@BounceBackBlaze]

The dog bounty hunter used to show the Hawaii hoods . It was pretty interesting.

[@jeffsmith-ze6wb]

As a trucker of 24 years in New Orleans just before the crack of dawn I’ve had them thugs shooting at my truck in a residential area it’s nuts down there!!!

[@brianmatthews4149]

And I thought Oakland was bad.dam it.

[@misterhipster9509]

In the mid 90s had business in New Orleans, had a free afternoon, took a road trip SE of the metro area, found a narrow country lane to follow, encountered what appeared to be a Oriental settlement from history, pie plate hats, folks carrying two containers supported by a stick slung across the shoulder, others tending to flooded rice fields. Always been surprises touring America. Damn shame the government treachery and come to the present level of evil.

[@michaellawrence5492]

Nick, there are many reasons to thank you for your time vested creating these views with narrative for time will pass and all this will become captured markers to compare to another and later American presence of existence as time passes. Some roads will disappear while maybe new ones might appear but you have marked well the one of now for the people in them now will be gone the places time will tell, Thanks Friend !

[@NickJohnson]

Ok Mike!

[@TheGeoY]

This is one of the heaviest, most informative videos.

[@loboblue5441]

Honestly, no one needs the govt to come in, to tell the residence of a community, to clean up and pick😅ng up trash. But, what the man from Mississippi, is saying, is very true. City councils, are so corrupt, in many states.

[@GK-ku3zv]

Are you aware that outsiders come in and dump trash in poorer communites? It takes money to keep deterioration of property at bay. Poor areas have large crackes in sidewalks and potholes in roads needing repair. Do you think the neighborhood is responsible for overseeing that while others go about their day without a thought of what is needed because their needs are being met by proper funding.

[@asullivan72]

​@blackcherry6877 is the system working for you? Bout the only one. The system works for those rich elites and corporate oligarchs who don't care 2 shits about you. Dirty dealings by worthless politicians who also don't give 2 shits about you either. Democrats or Republicans don't give 2 shits. It's up to the people because The System is broke and doesn't give 2 shits about ANY of us. Roll your blind eyes all you want. Tell me how The System is working for you? You got money or what? 🤔🙄

[@ddylla85]

​@@GK-ku3zvdon't litter, cut your grass, edge the sidewalks and curb.

[@roxrollson]

@@ddylla85 Agreed about litter... but I'm fairly certain most of these people don't own lawn mowers and edgers. I certainly didn't when I was renting...

[@ddylla85]

@@roxrollson if you live in a home that has a yard...

[@bixbysnyder-00]

I appreciate your channel for pointing out the failures of both political parties.

[@CharlesAnsman]

Babies-----If you can't feed them, don't breed them !

[@HerrVonStinky]

Forced eugenics

[@kittenlips44]

Another outstanding video ,Nick . Great footage/ every shot . Thank you

[@NickJohnson]

Ok ❤️

[@ericanddella]

Thanks Nick! Your videos are so insightful. I’m so glad I stumbled upon your channel.

[@NickJohnson]

Glad you like them Erica!

[@kariskogstadlita8085]

Hello Nick ,i like your channel because you are telling it like it is .I learned a lot ,thanks Nick .

[@joannunemaker6332]

Eye-opening, but sad places. A well documented video.😊❤

[@angershark88]

This country is a world class disgrace.

[@brianmatthews4149]

End of days.young folks should start to learn mandarin as a second language.

[@Calvin5150VH]

Ukraine is the priority.

[@kipponi]

​@@Calvin5150VHAnd make China the devil with propaganda cause otherwise they will be World biggest economy by some years. I think U.S. and like our country 🇫🇮 don't care its own citizens anymore.

[@superfisher4379]

​@@Calvin5150VHIt's pretty baffling isn't it? We have parts of America that are like third world counties and we send billions overseas. No wonder people are so disenfranchised.

[@Calvin5150VH]

​@@superfisher4379vote them out.

[@gwynnmccallan8856]

Did your Democrat President send Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to help your community? No. He sent it to Ukraine. Why? Because the Military Industrial Complex needs to keep supporting War in order to keep making money. Who has major investments in those companies? Your President and Congress.

[@patjones5723]

Bingo 💯 💯 💯 😢 🤨

[@erikazauzig6111]

Didn't you hear Nick explain how Republican governors return Federal funds sent to them to help the residents? Republicans hate Americans who need help.

[@BrothaJim01]

@@erikazauzig6111 Bingo.

[@peterinoz4502]

How did 🇺🇸 get to this?, can’t believe it, here in Australia, I can only hope we’re not heading in the same direction 😱

[@jeremyweems4916]

When places fall apart here, no one fixes them. They just move somewhere else and destroy it. It's an endless cycle. Any place that's nice now, will be destroyed within 30 years.

[@peterinoz4502]

@@jeremyweems4916 we have the odd shop here and there that’s boarded up but nothing like a deserted downtown….very sad

[@GoldGloveDruid]

Huge lack of accountability and incompetence. If you don't know why or what is happening and your only solution is more funding, then perhaps these city and county officials should find another job.

[@martinel2450]

They always repeat “we need more resources”. I doubt half of the people using that phrase even know what that means - higher taxes from everyone moving through the same broken systems that can’t properly manage anything right now. Stop voting for the same corrupt crooks and start investigations should be the 1st things they say. After that I think we’d all be more receptive to talks about more resources

[@jasonvoorhees7288]

Facts. There seems to be an accountability issue in this community.

[@heatheregger8808]

"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country". John F. Kennedy

[@namdelovoi]

That John is long gone, so has the country.

[@billwilliamson9842]

I think what you want to really quote is LBJ's famous words "I'll have those ni66ers votin democrat for 200 years", all he had to do was appease them with some freebies, typical democrap tactic.

[@tasmaniandevil7610]

The new norm is can I have a job and will I have to work??

[@HIAHomelessInAmerica]

Thanks for sharing this 👍🙏

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Awesome Clip Show video! It really builds an accurate perspective of what The Deep South's Worst Ghettos are like compared to each other!

[@johnlocke6506]

The land might be fertile but planting & maintenance obviously take too much effort. And I assume that as soon as anything was ready to harvest it would get nicked!

[@jacquelineperry8515]

The young people that lived there need to be giving skills in home building and landscaping to fix these communities up.

[@AbstractTraitorHero]

Most of them don't own the homes & are forced under slumlords who don't fix anything & charge a lot. Most people are born in these places & then trapped economically.

[@stevenproetz5336]

Good show as usual. TY,please keep it up! We need to make Americans open their eyes.

[@D.L.W.]

If something is broken, and no one knows how to fix it, then logically it remains broken forever.

[@atmosrepair]

It remains sealed until it is unlocked, but it won't be forever.

[@Materialworld4]

Hello Nick, I need to thank you for your video expose of America. I lived in riverside, California from 1984 till 1994, and 2 years later I moved out of California for good. For those ten years though we were almost neighbors, I lived in the La Sierra Hills. I moved to a great part of Phoenix because even in the 1990s the handwriting was on the wall for much of So. Cal. My ancestors moved to California in 1845, were in the Bear Flag Revolt of 1845, the Gold rush of 1848-1850, and owned a lot at Kearney and Vallejo Street on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Last time I went to that location in San Francisco was 2006, and I am not going back. Nick, the first time I went to the Old south was June 1959, Interlachen, Florida. Talk about an eye opener at age 5, wow. To go from Silicon Valley to Florida in 1959 was a massive cultural shock even at age 5. Take Care Nick, You do one hell of a good job covering this country, and my hats off to you.

[@billwilliamson9842]

@@rayb.6537 yep just another cali run out thats gonna vote for more of the same wherever they go.

[@DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE123]

Hello Nick, I'm addicted to your channel 😅

[@ES-mc3cc]

This is one of your best videos IMO.

[@dennynisevic7848]

Yes , me toooo

[@NickJohnson]

Hey everyone!

[@endlessnameless8181]

By the way, got a new subscriber here. Look forward to bingeing out your channel after this video.

[@NickJohnson]

Welcome aboard! ❤️❤️❤️

[@JaimeHopkins-d6y]

WOW!! I live in the New River Valley close to Virginia Tech, Go OSU Buckeyes. Love your showing of America.

[@rgpark69]

I'm originally from Bellevue Washington. I have lived in Jackson Mississippi 96 to 98. I installed car accessories. Most of the customers were from out of state. It took me a year to save enough for a u-haul and gas money to get out. All I did was work 6 days a week and chores on Sunday. The people were good but opportunity didn't exist.

[@dathip]

did you mean opportunity?

[@rgpark69]

@@dathip fixed it.

[@jasonvoorhees7288]

Fellow washingtonian here 👋🏻

[@ColdStoneRacing]

Love you Nick!

[@ressljs]

As far as, "Is it only America that we abandon things when they're broke?" I can't honestly give you an absolute, "Yes, it's just us!" But traveling in other countries (mostly Europe and the far east), I did notice I wasn't seeing a lot of areas of all new construction, but I do frequently see where they are in the process of gutting old buildings and rebuilding them from the inside out. So you get a building that feels new from the inside, but still has the old traditional style from the outside.

[@samkangal8428]

We don’t have space to leave houses empty in Europe .

[@charybdis8113]

You can't do that with American cardboard houses

[@billwilliamson9842]

@@charybdis8113 we also get a lot nastier weather that tears a lot of old places up.

[@miketackabery7521]

Try Japan. No modern house outlasts a family. They're all built to tear down.

[@CarolLustgarten]

Great job nick. Enjoy your videos. Lived in a variety of cities. Was a v.i.s.t.a volunteer. Volunteer in service to America in 1978 to 1979 in Houston. A very different time back then. But being a social worker after in Houston saw lots of poverty. 😔 sad. I imagine it is worse today.😢😢😢😢

[@LivvyAlexW]

It’s so sad to see these beautiful towns burned down. I can see past the trash and burnt houses. I can only imagine how beautiful and thriving it would have been in the 40’s and 50’s

[@profe3330]

I'm glad you mentioned NAFTA - and the outsourcing of industry generally. You can't expect cities and towns to prosper when there's nowhere to work. You can't expect people to keep up their homes and be good citizens if there's no way to make an honest living, and it's obvious that nobody you've elected to office gives a single shit about you. America SHOULD have seen this coming, but of course nobody cared - if "free trade" and 'globalization" are good for billionaires, we're supposed to pretend they're good for everybody. And this is what you get.

[@patjones5723]

Bingo 💯 💯 💯 👏👏👏👏👍

[@DUMPSTERDIVINGADELAIDE123]

Thanks for the video, Cheers from Australia 🐨

[@kt6332]

So sad, our government just isn’t working for our people. Need something new!

[@clearsailing7993]

It's amazing these people are so poor, yet still have money for expensive guns and ammo.

[@billwilliamson9842]

and rims, stereo systems, designer clothes, drugs, club money etc etc etc oh they do very well milkin the system.

[@QYgod]

I'm with you, but you have no idea how they got these weapons, probably stole them, just saying

[@clearsailing7993]

@@QYgod I think you are right!

[@loboblue5441]

There's that word "resources". Thats a democrat battle cry, We need resources! Throw money at a problem, that's how they think. We all know the "one thing" why our country is in this position . Keep voting for the mayors that are allowing this

[@user-wy1dl2me2p]

Democrats need to pay our society back and leave

[@loisaustin6200]

It's not just the mayors, stop voting for anything with a (D) next to their name. That goes for City Council, Governors, Judges, Mayors, and POTUS's.

[@knucklehoagies]

Most of these poor towns are republican.

[@knucklehoagies]

@@mmmd3429 they don't exist. People like to over simplify reasons places are poor. It has nothing to do with democrat vs republican.

[@jasonvoorhees7288]

​​@@knucklehoagiesBS. Democratic politicians have absolutely ruined many cities in just a matter of a few years. Democratic policies like (soft on crime, cutting American independence on oil ECT.) are dissolving the moral fabric that is America. I live in a blue state and our governor allowed Chaz to happen.

[@carinarilk89]

Hi Nick, that's so bad for America. No jobs! No money for food, for a warm home, for electricity. It's a shame what the Democrats Gouvermants are doing. They spend your money everywhere, but not for the own people in America. The same happened in Europe too. We must stand up and change the politicy. Please don't forget the poor people. It's Thanksgiving time.❤

[@hoppes9658]

Work for grey iron foundry up north. Lots of hours and money. Land value is premium. It’s location man.

[@AdamKrukowski]

sory but where in Europe? Im from Europe and I dont see anything like this.

[@mouseodious393]

The south is run by republicans for 50 years but ok

[@Davism38]

Democrats governments?

[@jasonvoorhees7288]

Spot on. The democratic politicians' ideology completely ruins entire places.

[@MSAPtube]

They love living in their hell and want to keep living in their hell. If this is how they want it, nothing will change.

[@nicholehernandez8213]

Their hell? Which one of those people said that they loved their living hell?

[@Gity444]

Always somebody else's fault, never the culture or parents!

[@diodelvino3048]

Its always "the left" , "the blacks" , "the younger generation" , always someone else to blame besides the actual people that run everything and actually have power, what kind of backwards education are people getting.

[@blakesleyk.7166]

Exactly.

[@miwdiva]

Several factors at the same time, I think.

[@IIIII...]

It's always cultural unless the poor area is Hwhyte.

[@sadiewagstaff890]

​@@IIIII...That's because they don't know our culture so, anything f'd up is our culture. But you're right. He showed an all white "hood" and it was shitty but no one says "the culture" is the cause.

[@maryqitecontrary9164]

You're a good guy Nick people need to see these things

[@ameliarhodes5000]

Here's an idea. Don't do "petty crimes" over the course of years and decades. I bet dollars to donuts if you don't commit crimes and violence you won't be in prison for months and years. Also don't have unprotected sex and/or kids when you can't even support yourself without breaking the law! I bet those thugs haven't tried that simple logic. Nothing wrong with guns or the justice system. It's time to demand personal responsibility and accountability to the community, theirs and ours.

[@buckshot6481]

Check crime in Kennesaw GA Nick where gun ownership was mandatory. Lowest in GA. Nick.

[@ameliarhodes5000]

@@Reviewer-qr5gr That's no excuse. My dad died when I was three years old. I never broke the law. Later as an adult I was "disowned" after I became a post op transsexual, I have no family, no community, I am not considered human for the most part. Yet I have never broken the law. Maybe I should?

[@YoungSxvxge]

Not that easy for some but ok. You don’t know the story behind it.

[@ameliarhodes5000]

@@YoungSxvxge Ya it be dat easy, cos.

[@ameliarhodes5000]

@@YoungSxvxge I done be poor. I done be homeless. I ain't never bees breakin me no laws. Word.

[@huntr1998]

I'm so down bad that I literally watch these for potential ghettos I can live in.

[@annabelleb.8096]

The aldermen in my city just voted themselves a huge raise....over 200% increase. LOTs of people objected but they didn't listen. The same thing goes on statewide. .and of course nationally our politicians are not listening either. It's called a representative government-not.

[@nycklander]

It is a false illusion called "democracy." People vote for a caste that believes itself to be superior, a caste of lying politicians, who only want to maintain and expand their privileges. They charge you taxes, which they do not return in services for citizens. Failed and corrupt state. The worst thing is that people continue to vote for them.

[@miwdiva]

Aldermen seems like a corrupted lot, even more so in places like Chicago.

[@michaelcesco2970]

I never understood what the hell an alderman does. How does he collect his salery? But don't complain, just don't vote for him again. ONE TERM AND OUT !

[@annabelleb.8096]

@@michaelcesco2970 There were a couple of aldermen who voted against it. Mine was one after he was pressured by another alderman! I asked for a list of their duties but of course had not heard back. So they will get enough money to survive on without a job. The problem is these are the kind of people running for those offices and there is no way any politician should be able to vote himself a raise.

[@stevesyverson8625]

Nick. I would love to see video of Plant City, Florida. I lived there in the 1950s and 1960s. My Granny filled a boxcar with her belongings and cattle. Ivory Forbes was toughest person and most loving. Forbes Road is named for my grandfather and grandmother. My family moved there with a 1956 Ford station wagon towing a 35’ trailer from Orange County California. It took three days to cross Texas because the Interstate Highway System was being built. So many detours and delays because of construction. I loved central Florida as a city boy that became country. The swamps, snakes, skeeters and everything that could cause pain were there. I forgot to mention that Mr. Plant brought the railroad to central Florida to open it up.

[@ajf5823]

This video looks like the post apocalyptic dystopian video games my son used to play. It’s fascinating and horrifying. Ross Perot talked about the giant sucking sound of lost jobs due to NAFTA. He was right but it started back in the ‘80s when we started shipping our manufacturing base overseas in order to keep the corporations happy.

[@lavapix]

Pasco reminds me of the Puna district on the Big Island of Hawaii. Every now and then the volcano erupts and cleans up any messes. The last guy was so right about what he was saying.

[@nbrown5907]

Impossible to compare a big city with rural, you have so many people in a city even if many are poor there is always money somewhere to use. When you go rural and look at a few thousand or hundred you may truly be seeing no money. The city will still have basic services usually rural will have nothing.

[@chancepaladin]

like they're completely forgotten about, yet still have to pay taxes for some reason.

[@Woketard]

The majority of the population lives in cities.

[@justjokinntokin5474]

❤️ the video! 😃 keep more poverty videos in the south

[@auraterry3548]

Bible Belt 😢

[@cristinamason6593]

I call BS on the fathers in the home. My ex husband decided that he was “tired of being married and having kids”, he was “done sharing my money and home”. My girls and I moved out and started over. They are much happier and feel more secure now with one happy and healthy mom. Bullshit, some men aren’t worth shit and it’s better if they leave.

[@richardeidemiller6739]

Exactly. It depends on the father in question. If he's spending his time in the streets, knocking up one woman after another and not taking care of any of them then he's a sperm donor not a father nor husband material. Sadly many women ( unlike yourself or me) accept this treatment so the cycle is never-ending.Vicki

[@brianmatthews4149]

You go girl!

[@jessehamilton4223]

Yet you chose to procreate with him more than once

[@billwilliamson9842]

@@jessehamilton4223 yep he upgraded and she mad lol

[@jasonvoorhees7288]

Nah, father's are 100% important. I just separated from my husband because of domestic abuse but having 2 parents in the home is 100% better than just having 1 for the majority of families. It is difficult being a single parent and it just adds extra stress.

[@tanzychatman6272]

Thank you for sharing your videos

[@ellensmith5349]

An absolute disgrace. All these rundown homes. And the piles of rubbish is huge. Who is accountable for this mess?

[@patjones5723]

Everybody 😢😢😢

[@davesthrowawayacc1162]

If you told me these towns were the towns on the frontlines in Ukraine after years of fighting and shelling I wouldn't have doubted you

[@carmenmonoxide7459]

I REALLY appreciate the time and research on this video. It's also nice to know your opinions about the conditions of what you've learned about each area. I think with all the footage you've gathered, this could easily be a two hour video. NGL, I still believe that you have a side hustle with Google Maps. 😆 TTFN and keep grinding cuz my cripple azz will keep watching! 💛🧡💚💜

[@NickJohnson]

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 ❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸

[@carmenmonoxide7459]

@@NickJohnson Thank you! There's so much to be thankful for.

[@chelechillen7848]

Getting father's back into the home. Child Support reform? What 😂. That means the parent has been long gone. Taking someone off child support won't make them go back. They decided to leave that home already. It's black culture that needs to change.

[@minixtvbox]

Same UK

[@user-wy1dl2me2p]

Yes they breed them ? They should feed them. Or go to jail .

[@phxrt3608]

The wrong people are having children.

[@IIII......]

Such a pinkie comment. Blk culure needs to change, but wyte culture is fine?

[@chelechillen7848]

@@IIII...... this isn't whataboutism. Nice try strawman

[@RobsNeighbor]

Thank you Nick! New Glarus Wisconsin here!

[@stevewilson9638]

Hooray Nick!!!!!

[@nickywood3573]

Sometimes people create their conditions and are not willing to do anything to change it.

[@jasonvoorhees7288]

🎯

[@philliphall5198]

Son like father and daughter like mother They seem to be facts

[@virtualselfie6899]

The One JP ~~ I'd vote for him! Corruption in government is everywhere. Great Show, Nick.

[@trentdawg2832]

He should actually run….he seems like a honest dude that knows what has to happen!!

[@stevesyverson8625]

When hurricane Katrina hit, the media focused on New Orleans. Because the flooding was a great video. However, Mississippi was dealt a great blow that was so violent.

[@dh2profit]

South Africa, New Orleans, Detroit. What do these high crime areas all have in common?

[@Jericho396]

A high concentration of melanin.

[@linwoodavenue4300]

Move to Ukraine. It’s all yt people there so you should be nice and safe.

[@dathip]

​@linwoodavenue4300 lol true 😂 You can go to the poorest parts of russia and see this. Heck even serbia. Saw graffiti all over the wall, pissed drunks, etc.

[@IIII......]

Speaking of high crime, did you know Hwhyte ppl commit the most crime in the U.S.? I'll be waitin for yo response, PinKee.

[@namdelovoi]

@@dathipyou are plain lying. No shit places like this in Russia.

[@MrSanJose420]

Great post thank you

[@traceybanks3525]

A common theme in all these area's that no one wants to say out loud, sadly

[@MarcPlaysDrums]

That part right there…”We may have come here on different ships but we’re all in the same boat”…is a bar. Whether it’s the Mayflower, the ships going to Ellis Island, the ships bringing Chinese immigrants to San Francisco or the slave ships…this is ALL our America and we’re ALL in it together. Something has to change.

[@BillyT886]

But did you really have to call it a “bar”. Just say it’s a good saying

[@billwilson-es5yn]

It's changing thru attrition. The deadbeats and losers aren't having children plus are dying off at a younger age due to drugs, violence and poor eating habits.

[@LynnS-gd8wq]

One thing that's amazing about Florida is despite all the tourism dollars they bring in all the dirt roads that are still there. I was amazed at the dirt roads there when I visited as a kid, I recently went back and they were still dirt. Even in Alabama we have paved roads.

[@brianmatthews4149]

We have dirt in San bernadino ca.yes it amazes me how some poor states have more paved roads.

[@richardatmacks1]

I love your work. Please do more. I'm in Omaha Nebraska. Seems like we're doing good here. Nice small town/city. We got issues.everyplace does. But, we been there done that and welcome everybody. Honestly, I think it's a cool place.

[@rickn501s]

TheOneJP has the answers. We need more like him. The middle class is almost gone. As it continues to disappear, more at the bottom end have to live on the street or in poverty as Nick has shown. The rich live in isolation, separated by gated communities and in some cases, geography. Study history. If we do not learn from history we are doomed to repeat it.

[@illiilliilliill]

Anyone else hear that burst of automatic gun fire in the distance when he rolled down the window @34:16?

[@scottcarr5845]

I would rather our money that gets sent overseas be used to help invest in America. Rather than to start foreign wars.

[@billwilliamson9842]

it has been, over and over again in places like this and these same 13% of the population destroy it time and time again. some people you just can't help.

[@LKSX3]

Thank you for your content.

[@NickJohnson]

My pleasure!

[@MMAfighter38113]

Can’t help but feel pity for anyone having to live like this. Crime in Memphis has really gotten out of control. In 2022, around 2,420 violent crimes per 100,000 residents were reported in Memphis

[@OneSon744]

Thanks Barry Santos !

[@EMan-cu5zo]

The lady at first should realize the first and most important thing to do first is get crime under control. After that then people can safely go out and improve the place. Business would come in and hopefully grow from there.

[@-_-_-_-318]

Well, you can't blame the system AND the criminals. Lol... seriously though, personal responsibility has to become a factor for any improvement.

[@carlosgamez9521]

Very well organized Nick

[@Peter-MH]

Wonder if Amazon deliver to these places?!..

[@loisaustin6200]

Those folks are too poor to be able to afford computers and internet to order anything at all from Amazon or anywhere else for that matter.

[@bobbieabbott]

I use to live in Moon Lake, we had a nice piece of property with a fairly new doublewide on it the bad side was the road and all the pot holes.

[@loboblue5441]

You're hilarious if you think the mayor of NO, Latoya the destroyer, wants the goods, crime free😂😂😂

[@buckshot6481]

Keep voting for the Democrats ding dongs and keep the Groes on the Po side of life, just keep'em down and they'll vote Democrat 😂

[@willisjefferson5886]

Another Gem Nick