Incredible Maps of the US that will Change the Way You See the Country...

[@saminskip3281]

Those weird straight watersheds in Australia are in the Simpson Desert, which is a massive area of sand dunes which run NNW to SSE for 100s of kilometres. So all those straight watersheds are rivers which flow between these linear sand dunes when it rains

[@Rancid-Jane]

Ah yes, that would explain it. Thank you.

[@susanfrombflo8368]

Ty!

[@grasshoppergeography]

Very well said! :) Same weird lines can be found in the deserts of the Middle-East: www.grasshoppergeography.com/River-Maps/i-bnnFm34

[@bobhope4288]

The Simpson Desert? DOH! Should have known.

[@jerinbateman4871]

That's so cool and crazy! wow

[@dkroll92]

the actual percentage of English ancestry is much higher than reported, and is likely the most common in the US. For some reason, in the mid 20th century people stopped reporting English ancestry on the Census, leading to sharp declines that could only otherwise be explained through mass emigration or a literal die off. Since as far as we know, there was no secret Holocaust of English-Americans in the 1960s-80s, it's far more likely that people just chose to ignore their English ancestry in favor of other backgrounds where present. i.e., someone that was 1/4 German and 3/4 English might just put German

[@haroldwilkes6608]

True, I know a number of people who reported "Native American" (if you're 2nd generation or more, you're native) just for spite. And then there was Elizabeth Warren who did it for minority points and votes. Also the DNA fad caught on and regardless of their physical origin, some chose their blood origin. And others chose their origin to be exotic. People are weird.

[@mikesaunders4775]

As the great migrations of the 19th century unfolded many of English origin would eventually have been absorbed into other North European Protestant groups.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@conker bad day It figures, they have a long history together, part of why there was some difficulty in the world wars. There were royal inter-marriages for many years.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@conker bad day We let bygones be bygones here but in Wisconsin not long ago, it wasn't unusual to go to an auction and find a Nazi flag for sale or a picture of Hitler. I bought hundreds of German WWII Hitler stamps at an auction. It was common in other areas too I've been told. Cultural allegiances die hard. In away, it's not hard to understand, most German immigrants into the midwest were not royalty, they were farmers and workmen and many felt cheated after WWI was settled. They were proud of their country and wanted it to be great again. So goes life.

[@charlesbrown4483]

@@haroldwilkes6608 Makes you wonder why white people would want to report as something else, considering the purported privileges inherent to the white race.

[@DrGeorgePBurdell-USN1701]

Note that many of the "Irish" in the Appalachians are not actually Irish, but Scots-Irish, also known as Ulster Scots. Ethnic Scots, lived in Northern Ireland for many decades, moved to colonial America.

[@Original50]

Because there's the Irish and then there's the... bog-irish! Got Banbridge blood in my veins😚

[@mattwalter5184]

Appreciate your clearing this up. I noticed that when speaking about elections, he stated that states flip every year which I found odd given that the federal election he was discussing only happens every four years.

[@gavinsheridan4680]

So they moved from colonial Ireland to colonial America.

[@For_The-namesakesnake]

Thank you

[@revolutionaryliberation9250]

Remember That When Rhe Majority Of These "Irish" Emigrated, The Entirety Of Ireland Was Under British Rule, & This Rule Effected How The "Great Potato Famine" Effected The Irish! Many Boroughs & Townships In Appalachia Pennsylvania Are Named After Places In Present Day Northern Ireland!!

[@bobbidunn8512]

That Irish county in Montana is home to Butte, Montana, 25% Irish immigrant miners in 1900. On St. Patricks Day, some streets literally run green (so I've been told).

[@firstcynic92]

They started immigrating into the area in the late 1840s, during the potato famine. The work they mostly got into was copper mining. In fact there were immigrants flocking into that area from all over the world. The Irish were the largest portion, but still only a plurality.

[@jimbobjones5972]

Yup. Silver Bow County. "Butte America" is and was a major mining town, once the home of the world's largest open pit mine. In fact, a century and more ago, safety signs in the mines had to be made in like seven different languages.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

During Oktobefest in Wisconsin, a number of streets run green-ish...Paddy's day too (green beer, you know).

[@montanamountainmen6104]

I live in Butte, I agree.

[@ktucker4717]

@@montanamountainmen6104 Same here!

[@akaviral5476]

Cook county here, it's crazy how packed the New England area is, yet how close to nature they can be. It's such a fascinating interaction

[@haroldwilkes6608]

I'd love to see a map that showed the relationship of people to trees in variations of green. Arizona would be 1 tree per million people, Maine would 1 person per million trees.

[@harrison85]

I’m from cook as well. Chicago is quite the city imo.

[@danepongos706]

The suburbs of Chicago are pretty green too!

[@ForzaMonkey]

@harold wilkes funny you say that. If you go up to the northern half of Arizona, there are tons of trees.

[@smokeydapot]

Crook County* I got you bro

[@mdjans35]

The two Dutch counties in Iowa are Sioux, which is home to Orange City, and Marion, which is Pella. Both towns have springtime festivals celebrating Dutch heritage and culture. The Tulip Festival for Orange City and Tulip Time for Pella respectively.

[@johnmccormick8159]

The "Irish" in the South are actually Scots-Irish. These were Scots who lived in the north of Ireland for a few generations before moving to the colonies. These are the people who produced a great number of US presidents and gave us the St. Patrick's Day tradition in the US. Catholic or native Irish had their biggest presence in the cities of the North after the famine (1849).

[@hammondjones]

pretty significant oversight, that

[@lgomezmiami]

I was looking for the Scottish flag in the south but didn't find it. So I know this is BS.

[@marifromky]

Ulster Scots.

[@zuffin1864]

Thing is, i am from a region where english, german and scots-irish all kinda meet, and that is my heritage, as well as other european stuff. I like learning about the average immigrant from those times as well as early settlers because it's cool to know that is history i am fairly well connected to. I have ancestors that fought in both the union and confederate sides of the civil war. Really cool.

[@marifromky]

@@zuffin1864 the best thing to do is to seek out the best original sources that you can. and that goes for anything, really. not just heritage.

[@RareVBlue]

The watersheds in that section of Australia are in the Simpson Desert. The Simpson Desert is a sand sea (erg) that contains the world's longest parallel sand dunes. So the water follows the sand dunes lowest points before evaporating.

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

I live in one of the highlighted counties. Oregon is a REALLY good example of how rural the country can be. Portland metro is roughly 50% of the state's population.

[@jack8580]

That's wild, living in Northern Virginia just outside of DC myself, we have a large portion of the state's population if you took away Virginia Beach area which is a decent competitor in terms of population

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

@@jack8580 Yea, it leads to all the far right idiots whining about a red state voting blue, completely unable to understand most people live in urban cities. Portland is an extreme version of this. Oregon's population is 4.246 million. Portland metro's population is 2,753,168 million. 180k of those are in Vancouver, Washington but you get the point.

[@trentspears9118]

The ancestry map was interesting to be sure, but it's something that's very difficult to color-code. For example, there are tons of people in central and south Texas with Czech and Slavic descent that are completely unrepresented on the map but have a very noticeable impact on the local cultures.

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

Native maps too because I'm probably related to some in a big way. I know many were killed by other tribes and displaced. Those who found the horses the Spanish left came back for revenge. How can they ever show that? Would they show the last land holder the US recognizes? Some people aren't even native because the government considers their mother and father and his brother native. From something as silly as his name not being on the list that family line cannot be native in some cases, yet his brother's family line is.

[@rcwhite364]

The unique "Irish" county in Montana is Silver Bow County, organized alongside the city of Butte. It has a long history of mining, and the Irish were one group that gravitated toward mining. Butte also has a history of labor unrest, often attributed to those early Irish immigrants.

[@lostbehindanoaktree5134]

Great map video! I found it pretty amazing that on your last map that of all the places you could have randomly scrolled over, you just happened to scroll over and highlight my hometown of Logan, OH. At the 10:20 mark you scrolled over and highlighted Hocking County, OH. All the maps were very interesting! I never noticed until seeing this map how similar the Mississippi River watershed looks like the Louisiana Purchase. Well done.

[@ethicaletherealethicsenter5645]

I’m here, a Polish descent from Luzerne County

[@miliba]

are you also part swiss?

[@jmcd2053]

wilkes-barre?

[@412hwc]

pa?

[@MinecraftMasterNo1]

@@miliba Swiss isn't a real ethnicity...

[@leeroyjenkins8317]

I'm here in Central Pa as well, Cree Native American & Scandinavian

[@JXY2019]

I was born in a gray county and live in a different gray county.

[@aserher215]

@Luis Trevino He said "county" not "country" he's talking about map 4:18 lol

[@YSLRD]

Hah! Not so rare. The 40, 000 people in my county voted 80% R. Democrats don't bother to run.

[@peanutbutter4968]

@@YSLRD There are 50,000 people in my 5 mile radius town. 40,000 in a whole county sounds like the middle of nowhere to me. makes sense why its R

[@Cillana]

I've lived in 5 different gray counties. Never in a blue. Highest pop county I've lived in was 440,000. Lowest (and current) pop county is 22,000.

[@rickshearer]

Fantastic work! ...a great educational video with a variety of subject matter , all under 20 minutes!

[@Kevy_G]

I cant tell you what the root cause is for the Australia weirdness, but you can clearly see ridges in the desert that would confine the watersheds at: -24.801756680514337, 136.971094792741

[@JimmiAlli]

I think that is where Uluru is.

[@yt.damian]

They are sand ridges and can extend significant distances

[@ignemuton5500]

that is the simpson desert, it's made up of many extremely long and tall sand dunes

[@grasshoppergeography]

@@JimmiAlli Those lines are in the Simpson Desert. The occasional water streams would just follow the parallel sand dunes.

[@robthetraveler1099]

@@JimmiAlli No, Uluru is well to the west of there. It is a very strange area, though.

[@guillermosenties.848]

I don't know why youtube algorithm brought me to your channel but I'm enjoying it and learning so much. Great content.

[@roadtoad7704]

On the population angle: LA county, 10 million strong, has more population than 42 states. Kinda scary.

[@majortomwilkinson]

I lived in LA county for 50 years. Moved to Clark County Nevada, which is now a suburb of Los Angeles (and growing, 2 million people in 2021)

[@VLA1234-t2t]

@@majortomwilkinson las vegas and reno are the only 2 areas of Nevada growing lol. All thx to California

[@MinecraftMasterNo1]

@@VLA1234-t2t Going from the highest income tax in the country to none has got to be satisfying lol

[@haroldwilkes6608]

I'm kind of betting on the San Andreas to remedy that problem...

[@prajwalpampa]

no wonder why CA has never ending droughts.

[@alejandrocan9]

I live in the most southern part of Texas. The blue county is called Hidalgo county. 4:06

[@amydiazhollis6642]

Galveston county here

[@cbrucesbiz]

What a great job with this video. Have followed several of you video and they have been most helpful. Keep it us as I guess you will, for the love of it all.

[@user-yy4ux9zf4r]

I looked into the reason for the straight lines in Australia, “Located within the driest region of the Australian continent, the Munga-Thirri-Simpson Desert Conservation Park is in the centre of the Simpson Desert, one of the world's best examples of parallel dunal desert.” This doesnt explain everything, but I think parallel dunal desert is as good as we r going to get.

[@grasshoppergeography]

Exactly, those lines represent the occasional water streams that would follow the parallel dunes.

[@worryfreetrip1695]

I would love it if you make a video about every state that has a mountain range and talk about how it's different from all the other states not only talk about the mountains but like the surrounding land and also a video about the different islands and Island. Edit: I meant all the different Island change that the US has control over territories or States.

[@juangonzalez-qg6eh]

Another very interesting video 😉thank you😊

[@fortusvictus8297]

Swedish is an interesting omission from the ancestry map. At one point there were more swedes around Chicago than in Stockholm, and they settled around modern-day WI and MI. My own family settled in MO, with several towns of Swedish immigrants in that area between St Louis and Kansas City. I wonder if the dataset just included Swedish into the numbers of German.

[@sergeant_chris6209]

Maybe so. Or maybe, because of the nature of US immigration and settling, many of the ancestries that are the majority in a region, might even be less than 30%, but because of the existence of so many of them, such a small percentage can1 create a majority. This is especially true in urban areas with diverse backgrounds. Many ethnic groups might fall victim to this statistical inadequacy. For example, greek americans have a significant presence in the Boston-New York area, however they aren't shown in this map because other groups overshadow them.

[@InlandEmpiresoccer909]

Cool thanks! With the native land map I found the native peoples of my mom called the huicholes in Mexico. I don’t know much about them other than name and where they are from but now I can go on the rabbit hole to find out more about my ancestors!

[@lewislindsey1946]

Comment # 104, March 13, 2021, 5:50 pm , ET, USA. Very, very impressive. I subscribed with notifications. Well done is an understatement!

[@Cyancat123]

7:05 that’s the county where butte is, home of the Berkeley Pit. When Irish immigrants came to America during the late 1800s mining was one of the easiest jobs to get into, so they went to Butte.

[@j.s.7335]

I found watershed maps fascinating. I wish you had spent more time on the Africa one. From what little you did show, I found it interesting that the Nile and the Congo watersheds abut each other.

[@grasshoppergeography]

Glad you like our maps :)

[@ThatIsInterestingTII]

@Grasshopper Geography - Your maps are excellent! I am glad I was able to introduce some other people to them through this video.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Ditto the Brazil one. They look like maps of human blood vessels.

[@rosaamarillo2110]

I saw another map that showed a great migration of Irish from the New York area, across the Midwest, and sweeping south into Arkansas, Tennessee. Alabama , etc, and this map shows where the Irish ended up in the mid south... makes sense..

[@IsaacDozier1]

2:00 Here's a crazy fact. That little pink watershed in the northern most part of Washington Sate is the 3rd largest river on the west coast, after the Columbia and Sacramento. Why? North Cascades. This is where the world snow fall record was recorded.

[@akaviral5476]

Even though a lot of us originate from Germany, I find that, since I'm able to speak German as a second language, it's hard to really use it in public since it's so rare to hear/use, even in Chicago

[@dkroll92]

it's a social conditioning thing... my grandpa was born in the US to German immigrants, and while he was initially taught only German, once he was in school and had to learn English, he was taught to only use English whenever possible. Eventually he lost a lot of his original ability, and was unable to pass it on to his kids. (ironically, my family later lived in Germany, where he did get to practice some of his old skills)

[@frigginjerk]

Most immigrant groups lose their native language within a two or three generations. If you plunked down your life savings to come over here on a ship, you probably weren't taking a vacation back to the old country, ever. You might never learn English, but your kids will. And their kids probably won't know the home-country language. ...The most common exception to this rule is borderland immigrants. By the way, die Deutsche Sprache macht Spaß, nicht war? Ziemlich schön, auch.

[@naughtiusmaximus1811]

There was also the unfair stigma from the two world wars, many of German ancestry changed or modified their names due to harassment.

[@frigginjerk]

@@naughtiusmaximus1811 One of the more distinct skyscrapers in my city is called the Liberty Building, after its main occupant, the Liberty National Bank. Prior to the 1920s, that company was called the German American Bank.

[@joycehaines34]

Lots of videos will encourage zooming now, grow you languages it a great skill, w

[@Ricardopapa-fw7yo]

I love maps! Great channel. Good stuff.

[@wiesejay]

@8:12 That’s Osceola county, primarily because Disney heavily recruited in Puerto Rico for hospitality workers for their resorts

[@CyPorter]

Thanks for a great video!

[@Dreadnought586]

Great Video

[@roadtripmitch]

Thank you pretty cool! I do night photography so I'm constantly looking at Dark Sky Maps. Safe & wonderful travels!

[@derekhajos3555]

I was born in north Alabama. At the time of European colonization, the area had Cherokee. But before them, the land was Seminole lands. When Europeans showed up, other native Americans had already beaten the Seminoles all the way down into southern Florida.

[@CityGeek]

I love these map videos!

[@tudorjason]

4:26 - This map is reminiscent to a Democratic/Republican map, with usually more urban counties voting as a Donkey and rural areas voting as an Elephant. I live in one of the blue-highlighted counties.

[@oliverclothesoff5397]

I live in Hartford county, one of the blue ones. It's mind blowing to see that map. I love geography!

[@pghrpg4065]

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania--the only blue one in western Pennsylvania.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Sort of like the Maytag man...

[@jeanpabon2948]

I currently live in Champaign county (not highlighted on the map) but am originally from Cook country (highlighted on map). So cool!

[@ai11eleven]

I really enjoy these long videos! 💯

[@Owlsick]

the best series you have ever made is back!

[@jcortese3300]

I remember seeing the ancestry map a while back and it becoming extremely clear to me why there are so few of my kind elsewhere. I'm 100% Italian-American and was born near Philadelphia, and holy crap, we are literally nowhere else in this country in any quantity whatsoever. We're so incredibly common here, and it was a real culture shock when I moved away and discovered how tightly concentrated we are in that one spot, and how tiny a minority we are elsewhere.

[@kaln6973]

@conker bad day the census says it German

[@kaln6973]

What about New York City Italians are plenty

[@jcortese3300]

@@kaln6973 Agreed -- beyond that "NY-to-Baltimore" strip, we're negligible.

[@kenneth9874]

@@jcortese3300 there are quite a few Italian Americans in New Orleans

[@rickbob6100]

@@jcortese3300 never been to michigan or Florida I see

[@GoogleAccount-pi9ct]

Incredible

[@allon33]

The lines on Australia are the Cooper's Plains, it is dry most of the year, yet in the Wet season large amounts of rain in the north flow south for a few weeks.

[@grasshoppergeography]

And the rainwater would just follow the parallel sand dunes, as it doesn't really have another option :)

[@allon33]

@@grasshoppergeography They are creek beds, dry creeks. Not so many sand dunes in this area; yet the surrounding land is mostly sand or savanna.

[@grasshoppergeography]

@@allon33 I don't know about the Cooper's Plains, thought that should be near, but those lines align nicely with the sand dunes in the Simpson Desert, where the occasional large amounts of rain flow through the area, just as you said. If you check satellite view on gmaps, you'll see what I mean :)

[@atlaskinzel6560]

The reason there are such spotty (blue and red mix) changes from 2016 on the nytimes map is because a LOT of the voting precinct areas were changed since the last election. It's hard to explain but that's the gist. If you zoom out of the map, you can see the county results, which is at least a better picture of trends in hard-to-understand areas.

[@dr.kevorkian7535]

Hartford County, Connecticut. One of the highlighted areas for dense population. I want out.

[@j.s.7335]

I grew up in one of the few gray counties in the Northeast corridor of the US, and I now live in one of the blue counties in Texas. There feels like a lot more open space living in a blue county surrounded by gray ones than there did in a gray county surrounded by blue ones. I want to live closer to the people I left behind, but not in the urban corridor again.

[@75OldsNinetyEight]

Jay and Mark approve of this video in the approviest way possible

[@barebones2001]

I live in one of the highlighted counties on the 3rd map. Harris County, aka Houston Texas. Massive sprawling city, not surprised that its highlighted on the map.

[@JustAceBro6068]

3:39. My best guess would be. At some point Australia had a glacier on the mountain to the north west of the straight lines. It looks like a glacier slide to me.

[@sarveshpatil453]

This guy is obsessed with maps & geography. 🙌🏻

[@Ty91681]

Really dig your channel!

[@Ultramarine37]

That one county in Montana is called butte-silverbow county with its biggest city being butte in the early 1900s and late 1800s lots of Irish immagrints moved there and worked on the railroads forming the towns irish culture. My family history comes from a variety of relatives moving to Montana the earliest in 1900 from Michigan/Wisconsin and the others coming from Finland and other Great Lake states. Edit: no Irish relatives that moved to Montana but did have 1 set of great great grandparents move from Ireland to Rhode Island

[@pegflorida9700]

New sub! Thanks for this video!

[@lawrencegcolemaniii7474]

I live in MidCity Los Angeles! Loved this video. 💙

[@iagrams9100]

Oh, my! These are so interesting!

[@juanrincon777]

great vid

[@cileft011]

your blue donut phenomenon is pretty interesting. i'm thinking that might be older millennials moving from the cities out into the suburbs, turning them more blue.

[@Zenas521]

Butte is the county in Montana where the Irish settled. This has to do with Marcus Daily the Copper King. EDIT: Here is a funny story for ya. A bunch of Italians moved out to Butte to get work in the mines, but Mr. Daily decided to open a mine directly under the Italian ghetto, so the Italians moved out of Butte. The mine is now known as the Berkeley Pit.

[@johnchristie9904]

Butte gang

[@ristube3319]

Well done vid!

[@stephenskinner4857]

Your work is amazing. This presentation of visual communication is opposite of so much of TODAY's communication with wordsmithing & film/video. A picture is worth a 1000 words. Keep up the great presentations. - Stephen Skinner

[@jamesfarrell8339]

Fascinating video I love it Great job I did not know most of the information on your video

[@EthanNeal]

5:00 Surprisingly, I've only lived in one of those blue counties for about a year (El Paso County, CO and Cobb County, GA), both of which were back to back and when I was very young. Though to be fair, I've lived in a fairly populous grey county for nearly 4 years (Denton County, TX) and suburban-but-kinda-not Paulding County, GA for 17 years.

[@dogfacedpony_soldier3554]

thomas francis meagher, after leading the irish brigade in the civil war, became governor of the then territory of montana and sought to start a "new ireland" and tried to attract many displaced irish immigrants to montana for the project before he was killed. thst may be a factor for the dense irish descendant population in the county in montana

[@FunningRast]

I like how we call them native/indigenous but in most cases they were really only the most recent inhabitants before contact was made with Europeans.

[@RdCrestdBreegull]

That’s the point. The indigenous population before colonization. Nobody is going to know the very first humans to have settled an area in the history of all humanity.

[@justinobuscape7031]

Their ancestors crossed the land and ice bridge between Asia and North America - called 'Beringia' over somewhat between 26.000 to 14.000 - 15.000 years ago. They have then colonized their continent in the same way we colonizedvEurope not longer before. So yes, you can call them "native" because they had been living in this continent for over 15.000 years, or over 600 generations before Leif Erikson decided to set his foot in Canada.

[@ashtron11]

Yay new vid

[@topplacetoLive]

Wow! These maps reshaped my view of the US. Important for my retirement plan. Great insights!

[@coltonrichman]

7:24 I'm glad you talked about forced migration, but you missed one that explains how the mostly English Mormons ended ul in the West. The Church originally had headquarters in upper New York, then Ohio, then Illinois with settlements spilling into Missouri. Tensions escated between local goverments and the Mormons in those areas, and political leaders feared they would lose influence to the Mormon northerners. The Missouri Governor even gave an extermination order that forced Mormons out and allowed for their execution if they did not comply. They were forced out of their homes and jobs, and their bussineses, farms, and holy temple were burned. Due to the high persecution and escalating tension, they decided to emigrate to what was then Mexico because they believed they couldn't freely practice their religion in the US. Most Mormons at the time were from the Northeast or emigrated from England, hence the large presence of English ancestry.

[@TiagoH1710]

Funnily enough, the Mexican government didn’t allow non-catholic immigrants, and they only crossed the border because the government’s control in the region was close to nonexistent and overall weak

[@neco4114]

I absolutely love maps!

[@michaellarsen6462]

Can you make a list of the longest states measured longest corner to furthest corner. The list will have many interesting surprises, once you pass Alaska, Texas, and Montana. Many in the top ten are so close, I don't have the tools to know the correct order.

[@DCRNLV]

The dunes are not the source of or cause for the watersheds; they merely overlie uplifted (into mountains), tilted, faulted (hence parallel lines) & eroded (source of the sand) pre-Cambrian cratonic basement rock, which channel water into individual watershed basins along those fault lines.

[@marilynringel9228]

Checking this out just popped up Ok Carter I will subscribe snd like -looks interesting

[@MrAlexSan00]

I'm here, representing Santa Clara County!

[@thetitanofwallstreet7839]

Ayyyy

[@SkepticalZack]

I’m in Butte County, I’ll be the only one. We are small.

[@cussmustard4748]

I love how Lancaster county, pa is known for being rural & home to the Amish, yet it’s a blue highlighted county on the population density map. I assume it’s close proximity to Philadelphia has something to do with that.

[@tanbanz9184]

Yeah my county is the tip of Texas this area is becoming less farmland and more city we only have 5% of vegetation and trees that use thrive hear. And it doesn’t help that we live close to another country.

[@michaelbailey6980]

The original country?

[@tanbanz9184]

Traffic is becoming so bad that we have to build more highways and climate changes has made this oasis to a dry arid land. There is barely any room for ocelots to move that they basically live in a island of vegetation

[@mgratk]

@@michaelbailey6980 Mexico was not always Mexico

[@HearturMind]

Geography is the way to understand everything! Subbed

[@JGerbase]

The county in Montana you were curious about is called Silver Bow County it's county seat is Butte, Montana. It was once the biggest city in Montana with over 200,000 people at the turn of the last century. It was the first city and county to elect a communist government. The town prospered due to the huge copper mine in Butte. The town suffered under repeated strikes from the unions and gradually the mines closed and the people moved away. Now the town of Butte has about 34,000 people. The people who settled the town were from all over the world but the Irish and Italian hard rock miners predominated. It was a true melting pot. It's interesting going to their prodigious chemistry and seeing all the countries who came. This is the town that Charlie Chaplin came to. He saw his first movies in Butte and decided he was going to move to Hollywood to become an actor.

[@JoshO423]

And Evil Knievel was from there. (I’m a Helena local!)

[@RandomRetallingsofRiggins]

your back

[@gene-van]

Great job, many thanks!

[@davidlarson9125]

The US immigration map doesn't distinguish people who came from Sweden. This is a major omission in the upper Midwest.

[@dkroll92]

that's because it's not the most common ancestry in any county. I'm sure a map of "second most common ancestry" would show a lot of Swedes.

[@davidlarson9125]

You're right, in fact it's not even second place, it's fourth place. I'm stunned it's only like 10% of the ancestry.

[@mikesaunders4775]

That surprises me, as Scandinavian surnames are so prevalent in that region.

[@brandondavis7777]

@conker bad day UK isn't an ethnicity, kiddo.

[@TalasDD]

abouth the autralia watershead question. the shown region is a huge floodplain that floods ever view years but ends up being an evaporation zone. depending on where the rain falls this floodplain floods from diferent directions so its imposible for this map to show accuratly.

[@grasshoppergeography]

The lines represent the occasional water streams that would follow the parallel sand dunes of the Simpson desert.

[@coryhobbs5386]

Great maps, like a fellow map nerd. I live interior Alaska we don’t count people there

[@kchal0]

The county map is really mindblowing. I'm one of the many in williamson here in texas that you highlighted.

[@skyrien]

Very interesting ways to re-visualize the US! Posting from King County, WA

[@sickofthissh]

I live in Duval county, FL, in Riverside. I am liking your channel!

[@trixOsix]

This video needs a million views

[@trixOsix]

I also live in a grey county but located between a bunch of blue ones😂

[@kavin4542]

Great vid! - Alameda County, ~1M Pop.

[@BryanChance]

Maps are just maps to me but I now see it's much more interesting than a tool. -:/) Great content!!

[@thereignofthezero225]

Just found this channel. Subscribed 👍

[@razony]

I find topographical maps the most interesting. When I look at those maps, I can see the area in 3D. The elevations, saddles, depressions...

[@melissajohnson2935]

The French speaking parishes in Louisiana actually speak creole French. It's similar to the French language but it is a language of It's own...🙃

[@EricEscander]

Creole is French mixed with African and it is not spoken by a majority of Louisiana French thoughmany do speak it. What I think you meant is Cajun French and its a more archaic form of the French language. It was inherited by French Canadians who moved to the region after the Seven years war.

[@mr.macintosh8559]

The county with a high Irish population is Silver Bow county. This is home to Butte, a once huge mining town. Because of the huge presence of manual labor jobs, many Irish immigrants moved there to mine. Now the city still retains a lot of Irish pride. They host a huge folk music festival and many Montanans will visit the city on St. Patrick’s day. It is even a common in-joke to ask redheads if they’re from Butte.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

5:12 As a Virginian transplanted to Wisconsin, all I can do is repeat what General McAuliffe said in WWII when surrounded by Germans, "Nuts".

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@conker bad day I'm told DNA doesn't lie. My lineage is largely English but 'wilk' in German translates to wolf so who knows. People in Germany have Germanic ancestry, but not everyone with Germanic DNA is German. People from more a handful of countries could find that their heritage can be traced back to the Germanic peoples who settled their region many centuries ago.

[@FreshwaterNautical]

I live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and cant go very far without seeing a Finnish flag or a bumper sticker saying FIN

[@frigginjerk]

If I visited there, I would be asked to leave for making too many "You gonna Finnish that" puns.

[@FreshwaterNautical]

@@frigginjerk haha

[@varkr2066]

The native map is extremely incorrect. It shows "general areas" of roaming but the actual populated areas were extremely small. They may have roamed in that area but they didn't dominate the whole area in the sense of modern nations.

[@CommieCat]

Yeah, welcome to revisionist history.

[@TheJayBee1990]

Well first it says 'territory' as far as I know the word territory stands for a space of land; well thats what the map is showing. Points to that. Second as you mentioned they roamed the area. Most of them had removable tents bcs they where nomadic for most of their existence. You cant draw big population centres on a map when those populations move a lot. Ponts to that. The map isnt incorrect, its just pretty vague due to informations being vague about this topic. Or do you think there is a database where you can look up at what point what natives have resided in a particular database. With date and time, members list etc? I guess not. The could have made it in different layers to see overlapping territories better or make dots where certain important spots were

[@CommieCat]

@@TheJayBee1990 completely ignoring that territory is what western nations call their sovereign land.

[@jonny-b4954]

Let alone it appears to be missing TONS.

[@urmom-pk6jr]

the map is clearly showing areas inhabited by versions indigenous ethnic groups prior to colonization. it displays what it claims to accurately, the indigenous cultures of north america just had different ways of thinking about land rights and usage pre-colonization. that’s why so many of the ethnic groups overlap on the map, because it doesn’t display sovereignty it displays human geography.

[@pablonh]

6:12 "such majority indigenous counties" This is NOT a map of majorities (there would be few of those). It's a map of pluralities. (This error is repeated many times.)

[@buffalosoldier7360]

Good stuff, thanks…

[@FoxxAddamz1]

That map in the thumbnail looks like a Coogi sweater.