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Timestamps:
00:00 Maps Are The Best
00:27 Most Sold Vehicles By State
01:54 Biggest Energy Source In Each State
02:50 Concentration & Number Of African Immigrants
04:07 Patreon
05:04 Most Popular Attraction In Each State
06:35 Distribution / Location Of National Parks
07:31 Exaggerated Relief Map
07:59 Percentage Of Passport Ownership In Each State
08:47 Biggest Religious Group In Each County
09:34 State Borders Rearranged By Watershed Areas
10:49 Summary
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[@Unmannedperson]

3:35: False: the northeast US is closer to Africa than the southeast. The closest US state to Africa is actually Maine.

[@timothymartin3672]

Thanks for this tidbit of knowledge, just goes to show how a European centered map can be misleading

[@General.Knowledge]

Surprisingly (to me), this is true!

[@timsimmons5190]

It's not

[@Unmannedperson]

@@timsimmons5190 Compelling argument. If you measure the distances, Maine (eastmost part on ocean) to Morocco/Western Sahara is just under 3,200 miles. Massachusetts (Cape Cod) to Western Sahara is 3,300 miles. North Carolina (Cape Hatteras) to Western Sahara is just over 3,600 miles. And Florida (West Palm Beach) to Western Sahara is 3,950 miles. If we include Cabo Verde and the Canary Islands as part of "Africa", then the point still stands though the distances are smaller. What's your counterpoint?

[@flyingknee8845]

@@timsimmons5190lollll

[@LeonMire]

9:20 "Non-denominational" does not mean atheist in this context. It means "not belonging to any specific denomination of Christianity." There are plenty of Christians who do not identify as Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, etc. but simply as "Christian" and don't have ideological disagreements with other Christians who follow the basic message of the religion.

[@timeflysintheshop]

Thank you! I thought I was going to have to explain that! 🙏👍😁😎🙏

[@nathanielsemans]

“Non-Denominational” is a branch of Protestant Christianity that is very similar to baptist churches

[@claudelamoreux8543]

They are generally independent congregations.

[@nebulan]

Yup still christian. All of the categories are different types of christian. Interesting that Amish doesn't have a plurality anywhere in central PA. Learn something every day.

[@soonerproud]

A lot of Pentecostal and Charismatic non-denominational churches exist, which have some wildly differing doctrine when it comes to miracles, speaking in tongues, and even some are Unitarian, not Trinitarian. While most would be considered Evangelical, just as the Baptist are, they aren't similar to Baptist in many key areas.

[@General.Knowledge]

Didn't know this! Thanks

[@flyingknee8845]

No, well yes, most are like similar to baptist but they don’t need to be it just means they are an independent congregation.

[@dawg2067]

As a Northern Californian I approve this message. (Southern and Northern California are two different states)

[@octaviusmorlock]

Same with NY.

[@General.Knowledge]

Definitely different in many ways

[@ParkerVlogz]

yes very true i live in northern california 2 and i been all around the state and there are huge differences

[@dawg2067]

@@ParkerVlogz yeah Southern California has a LA and Hollywood and all that, and we have the Silicon Valley/Bay Area. So Cal has a huge desert area. Nor Cal has a huge forest area with Redwood trees. So Cal hardly gets any rain. Nor Cal has the Sierra Nevada mountains topped with snow.

[@CTJM_Middleton]

Same with Georgia.

[@schalitz1]

Fun fact, Maine not Florida is actually the closest US state to Africa.

[@cch6127]

Non-denominational does not mean atheist. It means the church is not affiliated with a mainline denomination ie: Roman Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, etc. Nondenominational churches are simply Christian churches with varying sets of foundational beliefs.

[@Hogtownboy1]

By African immigrants. It includes many Arab Americans from Egypt that moved to Detriot and the Twin cities

[@General.Knowledge]

Interesting! When I think African I usually think Sub-saharan, forgetting that North Africans of course also count for the term. I just tend to associate them more with the Arab ethnicity.

[@Hogtownboy1]

@@General.Knowledge yes but it not how US but its immigrantion categories. The census does do a deep dive into ethnic and race break down.

[@simibro1709]

I really like the last map who takes rivers into account. Sometimes in any parts of the world mistakes have been made not to think about ethnic groups or natural features.

[@davidburrow5895]

Pretty much nobody migrates by boat these days. All the places African immigrants came to have major international airports.

[@shannonpincombe8485]

Yeah it's like those who continue to spout this "Blacks don't have ID to use when voting" BS. That is complete and utter garbage but people believe it because they want to be offended for those "poor Blacks being affected" by something that doesn't actually affect them. Idiots. In most countries the people who breach their short stay visas and are undocumented have usually arrived by plane. In Australia for decades it was tourists from England who would visit family overstay their visa find work and make an application for dual citizenship. Because our governments have loved people with white skin more than those people with coloured skin we let these English have dual citizenship easily. However, now the major problem with people overstaying their visas is with students from India and China studying then not going home once their study is completed. They have children in Australia, who are considered Australian by birth, but their parents get in strife and some are sent home once it's discovered they've broken the visa rules. Usually we let one of the parents remain here and finally after years of stuffing around the entire family comes to live here and I don't just.kean the parents, I mean the entire family!! I just don't see the big deal. We've got an enormous country and loads of space for people to live and work. The old ways, the 'White Australia Policy" won't die until the generations responsible for it are dead. Sad to say. Then again, in a recent referendum asking Australians if "Aboriginal Australians, those who've been here for more than 80000 years as a civilisation should have rights in our constitution as the first custodians of this great land"?, a majority of 'New Australians' voted against the change to the constitution. To think, those people who have benefitted most from most recently becoming Australian, leaving awful countries filled with violence and conflicts, voted against the rights of the oldest Australians being recognized in our constitution. Bloody ridiculous.

[@ferretyluv]

I’m shocked Washington’s best selling vehicle wasn’t Subaru.

[@justinphillis9598]

Oregon too! Around Portland it’s more than 50% combined Subarus and Teslas. Less Teslas further from the city though.

[@wait-ing]

and fucking volkswagen

[@joeym5243]

Subaru is a brand, not the name of a specific vehicle

[@mesamaniegov]

Him:"A word from our sponsor," Me: booo Him:"You" Me: ooohhh

[@t.kersten7695]

it might be interesting having a video about the different types of attractions in a number of US-States - maybe divided into groups like theme parks, national parks, historical sides, museums and malls. and the most interesting thing would probably be having a short historical summary about those attractions.

[@JLAvey]

I would like to say that the coal-fire plants in Utah are also the oldest power plants, thus the first that will be replaced. Unfortunately, there isn't a river worthy of the name (well, the Colorado cuts through a less populated area) to provide hydroelectric, so they will probably get replaced with methane-burners.

[@mariajoaoferrazdeabreu150]

Great video!!

[@shannonpincombe8485]

Love your vid pal!!

[@natethebass-man2869]

as a Washingtonian with a Toyota I approve this message

[@General.Knowledge]

Which model is yours?

[@CaritasGothKaraoke]

I’m a Washington resident with a Scion. Same thing.

[@natethebass-man2869]

@@General.Knowledge a RAV4 lol

[@josephharrison5639]

9:27 nondenominational is a branch of Christianity similar to baptist in practices but aims for a more board religious appeal

[@grahambarton4394]

As a Chicagoan who has built a chronic counter strike addiction from nuclear energy I approve of this message 👍🏻🇺🇸

[@jeffm9770]

I've been to 5 of the attractions on the most popular attraction map (Independence National Historic Park, Atlantic City Boardwalk, Times Square, Broadway at the Beach, Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Walt Disney World)

[@MRSYSTEM96]

idea: a map of UK, Ireland or any European country under the same subheadings in the video

[@hollish196]

Loved the states' borders defined by rivers. That was really interesting.

[@juliemarkham4332]

Yes, a separate video on tourism attractions in each state, please! Awesome maps. Thank you. 😊

[@dattaxpony920]

I wonder how Pike Place Market numbers were calculated as locals also visit the market.

[@Gamepro2112]

That most popular tourist attraction is so out of date, the Jefferson expansion memorial in Missouri is now the gateway arch national park.

[@matthewwelsh294]

It was from 2009 lol

[@Wooeugene]

The best selling vehicle in the US is the ford f-150. That’s been the case for over 40 years and likely won’t change anytime soon

[@brianarbenz1329]

Re the Watershed maps -- if you knocked on doors in Cincinnati and told people there, "Congrats, you now live in Kentucky," and then did the same in Louisville to tell them, "You now live in Indiana," you would not survive.

[@kotaowens6978]

The river one is cool!

[@General.Knowledge]

Agreed! I love to see border redesigns based on natural divisions.

[@truejacksonveep]

I live two miles from Mall of America and grew up only a few minutes further away...needless to say, I knew there was a reason I avoided that mall like the plague regardless of how accurate those numbers are.

[@eileenercole9579]

Canada next please

[@KaijinD]

U.S. military personnel love the Toyota Tacoma, especially those who serve in the Navy or at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. It's kind of a social marker. My guess is that accounts for the popularity of that truck in Hawaii.

[@roxyrambo2944]

5:15 YES PLEASE ❤❤❤

[@LoneRanger869]

Uhhh, Maine is also a U.S. state, and they also are predominantly hydropower, so it's actually 5 states, or 10% of the U.S. which are mostly hydro powered.

[@MyFiddlePlayer]

That graph was ambiguous, it could have been referring to % of the population or % of the energy produced, not states as a % of the total number of states.

[@alloinalsafa8436]

@General Knowledge, please tell about the spread of martial arts throughout the world. Thanks before

[@darkbrightnorth]

As a Canadian I am offended by our provinces being ignored 😢

[@General.Knowledge]

Sorry! I'll make a dedicated video for you guys!

[@C.R.W]

Fun fact regarding the African immigration. The northeast is closer to Africa physically than the south is. And nobody is immigrating by boat.

[@futuretyrant]

danke

[@Donutello4]

The Utah/Nevada/Arizona part on the last map makes sense to me, mostly because St George doesn't feel like Utah and Las Vegas like the rest of Nevada. They feel like Arizona and Arizona respectively

[@NY-DC-LA]

The southeast is not physically closer to Africa, Maine is the closest state to Africa. Don't forget, the earth is round.

[@keepclimbing2015]

9:26 Non denominational basically means an independent Protestant church without any larger organizational structure outside the church. Denominations are branches of Protestantism (Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist etc). Definitely not atheist.

[@Quasarnova1]

1:05 You could have just looked up "Best selling cars in the United States" and seen that the Ford F-Series and Chevrolet Silverado and the 1st and 2nd best selling vehicles, respectively.

[@Quasarnova1]

Also, at 8:48, this map is wrong or outdated. Catholicism does not have a majority or even plurality in most of Florida (including Miami). Most places have a majority or plurality of some form of Protestantism, usually Baptists in North Florida and Non-Denominational in South Florida.

[@jamisonweaver3711]

Cool video. We'll have to agree to disagree on that interesting map at the end. I don't know if it's better than our current borders, but it is definitely not more logical. Unless we were still hunter/gatherers. That would make sense.

[@axepagode33626]

California and New York scream about green energy, but both of them run on natural gas.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Gee, you'd think they had lots of Republican governors in the last 30 years. (They did -- a whole state doesn't 'scream" for one thing or another. Both are huge and have complex political make ups.)

[@HahnJames]

Americans do love their pickup trucks. The Chevrolet (Chevy) Silverado and the GMC Sierra are both made by General Motors and are remarkably similar in body style and features. They are both made in the same plants using the same parts and their engines and transmissions are made in the same factories. They vary in trim packages available. The GMC variant is considered to be a more premium brand.

[@General.Knowledge]

I guess it makes sense that they are useful in such a large country where most things seem to be only reached by car.

[@HahnJames]

@@General.Knowledge That's a big part of it but, many pickups are sold to people who rarely or sometimes never even haul anything with it.

[@Snusnu2977]

1:30 I think I found out RLL's state

[@athorusen]

I've lived in Idaho since 1977 and I've never heard of "Silverwood Theme Park" as listed in "most popular US attractions by state", where do you get your info from??? EDIT: I looked it up, it's over 400 miles from me, Idaho's a very big State!!

[@escmadeira]

RAM ❤

[@McVoid-mcv]

lower 48 is smaller then brazil

[@YourWeirdUncle22]

Eh,not by much. More people tho

[@onyxraze]

Than* And because you can't spell a 2nd grade level word; I'm just going to assume that your wrong about anything else too. 👍🏻

[@YourWeirdUncle22]

@@onyxraze 🤓

[@axepagode33626]

It is interesting that more Alaskans have their passports than most other states. It makes sense as they only birder Canada and Americans need a passport to enter Canada now. People of other borders states have other places to drive that don't require a passport.

[@jeffm9770]

Kind of weird that the Ohio River wouldn't make up any borders.

[@christopherbolander2596]

Alaska's National parks are huge - most maps (including this one) represent Alaska at less than 20% of it's actual size!

[@General.Knowledge]

That's true! Alaska is always shown smaller than it is, while Hawaii's case is the opposite.

[@TheOhioNews]

We love Cedar Point ❤

[@Felinecross]

As a Puerto Rican I was surprised to not see El Yunque in the national parks map

[@nickskuza6036]

El Yunque is designated as a National Forest, not a national park.

[@averyuncancelled2035]

How is South Dakota's most prevalent energy source not hydroelectric? We have like four major dams along the Missouri River.

[@viewer-of-content]

We're also like the second most theoretically wind productive state in the Union, and we get over 80% of our electricity from renewable energy. South Dakota is more green than any European country besides Iceland.

[@jackmarshall3888]

I live in St Paul, the Twin City to Minneapolis. They have a large Somali population (and St Paul has a large Southeast Asian population) because of our reputation for being Minnesota Nice and the religious charities that help resettle refugees being based here. Most of us take great pride in having our refugee communities and do our best to make them feel welcome!

[@General.Knowledge]

Very interesting! Would you say there's any specific reason why it tends to be the case? Many more religious regions sometimes lean the opposite way.

[@teddyghioto]

@@General.Knowledge Because they have a bunch of weak white guilt people up there

[@pyeitme508]

Wow

[@axepagode33626]

The Southeast US is not closer to Africa than the Northeast US. I know it seems counter intuitive. However, if you use a globe and a piece of string you will find that Maine is the closet state to the African continent. The US Atlantic coastline has a southwest longitude

[@Patecraft.]

👍

[@xavierdomenico]

Correct, Washington DC has the largest ethiopian community called "little Ethiopia"

[@planetarystargazer]

What If each Mexican 🇲🇽 state became independent

[@brandontucker1898]

Probably all be even shittier

[@blark5]

​@@brandontucker1898some of them would start doing quite well

[@General.Knowledge]

Good iea!

[@jordancobb7553]

​@brandontucker1898 mexico city is beautiful besides the designated trash piles. The city does really well for real... it's bumping like NYC at all hours partying till 3 then immediately working at 4

[@isabellaereshki]

9:10 utterly shocked that it says Clearfield County Pennsylvania is plurality Catholic. Growing up I didn’t even realize there was a Catholic Church. I thought the Catholic Church was mainly only in Europe and very few places in the us and was dying out and didn’t know why so many people feared and were terrified of it. We did have a tv channel that was Catholic and everyone complained it wasn’t their faith/religion/denomination and many families watched it sometimes anyway bc it was a family channel unlike most tv in the 90s that was violent and trashy. They had their own school that merged with the public school system in high school and those students often had to play catch up with the rest because some subjects weren’t taught or taught as soon or the same way. I think their school was either dissolved or stopped at 8th grade/middle school after awhile bc they got better education in the public school system. But still the main churches in town were the Lutheran Church, Presbyterian Church, and two United Methodist Churches. The Catholic Church was considered to be 3rd 4th or 5th. Though apparently back in the 1800s or very early 1900s it was a different story as I’m told at one point it took all of the 3 to 4 prominent Protestant denominations to come close to equaling the Catholic Church congregation membership. This map portrays the USA as basically split between Catholics and Southern Baptists. I don’t understand, because it doesn’t show the huge church formed by the United Methodist church from the Methodist Church and United Brethren Church. It doesn’t show Methodism as a whole that also includes Free Methodist Church and African Methodist Episcopal and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches, it doesn’t show the Baptist Church that Methodist Churches are closely allied with or governed by i forget which now and it doesn’t mention that Southern Baptist are a fringe break away group that only became somewhat popular by mega churches and televangelism back in the 1970s or so. This map also doesn’t seem to show the Lutheran Church or Presbyterian Church or Episcopal Church at all. The us has been a mostly Protestant country for over 200 years most of the time according to all the history books and what I read heard and was taught growing up but this map has everything colored in purple for Catholicism with some colored in red for the southern baptists in one region of the country.

[@isabellaereshki]

10:20 if the USA was divided by major rivers/watersheds most of the country would fall into the combined Mississippi/Saint Lawrence Seaway Watershed and there would be a meeting of the United Nations held to determine if the bulk of the USA belongs to France, Denmark/Norway/Vikings, or Ireland.. by earliest discovery/claim it would be in Ireland favor since the Irish are purported to be the source of the maps and information the Vikings and others used to sail to North America, by land claim stone/surveying the Vikings have the strongest claim and Denmark owning Greenland and until fairly recently Iceland strengthens their claim, but by settlement/attempt at colonization it would go to France as the strongest claim..though that claim was partially abandoned when the Louisiana purchase happened between France and the 13 colonies/early USA, but not entirely as they didn’t abandon Quebec or the st Lawrence seaway or Newfoundland until much later and partly only sold the Louisiana purchase to keep Spain from gaining any further territory/influence.

[@kongkiiing]

«Should they come by boat»

[@robynkolozsvari]

2:10 uh... i think you meant five. you forgot about Maine which is, in fact, not a Canadian province

[@Joe___schmoe]

I've only seen like 4 wind turbines in Iowa and have lived here my entire life

[@General.Knowledge]

We have to remember there's definitely room for error in these! But I believe wind power tends to be concentrated in specific regions so it may be a situation of one either seeing most of them or almost none.

[@chelmrtz]

What happened to Rhode Island lol

[@justinphillis9598]

The Southeastern U.S. has a history of Africans arriving by boat… (slavery) Also, the higher percentage of people having passports may also be an indicator of immigration hubs who visit family back “home.” Finally nondenominational means not falling under the umbrella of any particular religious sect’s governing body.

[@MateoQuixote]

At 3:30 I'm just going to throw these two things out there: 1) Maine is actually the closest state to Africa so by proxy the north east is closer than the south east. 2) immigration by boat doesn't happen to the same extent in the US as it does in Europe and potentially other places. I can guarantee no African immigration to the US is happening by boat nowadays

[@chandelure102]

non-denominational means mega churches.

[@SonOfMuta]

3:39 "Since it's physically closer yo Afrika" No, it isn't. Maine is the closest US state to Afrika, bruv

[@hadiisaboss5307]

Africa* its not that hard to spell

[@2d_enjoyer]

Finding out my state is powered by nuclear energy wasnt something i thought id do today but here we are 😅

[@General.Knowledge]

Are you a supporter of nuclear or no?

[@2d_enjoyer]

@@General.Knowledge Admittedly, I lack the knowledge to say either way.

[@Logan0o]

Non denomination doesn not mean atheist 💀💀💀 atheist means atheist

[@code2030]

More USA maps

[@ParkerVlogz]

me living in california and seing 500 dams and wind turbines a day

[@General.Knowledge]

Is it really that common?

[@nebulan]

Coal isn't surprising for wv ky or wy at all

[@nebulan]

And wv and ky are poor so it makes sense that we don't travel much

[@General.Knowledge]

Do they have large coal deposits? Or is it just because the states have not so strong economies and coal is a cheaper source?

[@nebulan]

@@General.Knowledge yes large deposites and economy built around it. We don't have much else in WV and KY. I think we hold on too strong to coal and it's keeping us from moving forward :(

[@schs1977]

​@@nebulanSuch an ignorant, stereotypical statement. There are VERY wealthy in West Virginia.

[@UserName-ts3sp]

im kinda surprised ohio isn’t coal, with the proximity to both states and having a decent amount of coal in SE ohio

[@ronaldpippen8164]

North Carolina is definitely f150 and 1500 country and it's the south not east coast.

[@bhami]

Re: religions: I suspect that the "Catholic" states are largely explained by Hispanic ethnicity (Mexican in the west; Puerto Rican in NY; ...).

[@megarockman]

For California that works pretty well, but for the Northeast like New York it is more about historical immigration from Catholic European countries like Italy and Ireland.

[@General.Knowledge]

Southern and Western states - definitely! In the East I'd guess European migration is at play too.

[@jannetteberends8730]

Maybe the same happens as in the Netherlands. We used to be a Protestant country. But now Roman Catholics are in the majority. That’s because the Protestants left the church last decades. The Catholics are now also leaving, catching up, and have the fastest growing group of leavers. The largest group are actually the non believers.

[@Crooked60]

No way the mall of America is the most visited its just a mall

[@thavionhawkmkii4509]

Technically the North East is closer to Africa. Globes are fun that way.

[@ryanrmcgurl7539]

I find it crazy that pennsylvania uses natural gas more than coal

[@General.Knowledge]

How come? Do they have large coal deposits?

[@ryanrmcgurl7539]

@@General.Knowledge of what I know living in the area. The area I live in pennsylvania is literally called the coal region

[@ryanrmcgurl7539]

Maybe it's changed since coal was so widespread but the area has one of the world's largest deposits of Anthracite coal

[@AGENT-oi7qw]

2 mins

[@z0phi3l]

Americans don't travel because even in the best of times it's expensive, just cross country, let alone international, you're looking at a good 1k+ Unless you can drive to Canada or Mexico

[@General.Knowledge]

Yeah that's definitely a key factor. In Europe you can fly around from one side of the continent to the other for like 100 euros - it really helps.

[@UserName-ts3sp]

we can also go to almost any climate while remaining in the US. if you live in germany and want a warmer climate? you’re gonna have to learn another language and move to another country.

[@SonOfMuta]

10:39 It's laughable how a Portuguese thinks they can have any opinion on the Unites States state borders

[@nebulan]

You made it sound like mormonism spread to the other parts of the jello belt recently while that's not true. Most are descended from pioneer populations from the mid 1800s. If you look at old "Deseret" state suggestions you see that the mormon population was already outside Utah

[@General.Knowledge]

Didn't mean to suggest that! There's definitely an old process of implementation in the regions

[@nebulan]

@@General.Knowledge np thanks!

[@kotaowens6978]

Nondenominational isn’t atheist

[@pxn748]

First!

[@Evan_Butler]

🤓

[@giubob1862]

shall they come by boat... from Africa dude? by boat? into u.s.?

[@General.Knowledge]

Lol no! That's not what I meant ahah. I would just guess flights are more common to the closest point of entry OR to the biggest cities - not necessarily to what seems to be a somewhat random distribution among mid-sized centres.

[@RsgNoise]

One out of 2 videos is about hell, ciao

[@General.Knowledge]

Not a fan of the US, I take it?

[@MarijnRoorda]

Watching these maps, it is starting to make more and more sense why they are called "fly over states"...

[@zachv]

They’re called flyover states because elitist like you pretend they don’t care about them and then get mad whenever they don’t support your politics

[@General.Knowledge]

The ones in the middle?

[@MarijnRoorda]

@@General.Knowledge The ones where they still use coal to power their homes, where they drive the least fuel and aerodynamic efficient cars, and where the fewest Africans live. The ones which will all color red in November. Those ones.

[@Toastmaster_5000]

As has been pointed out by others, the northeast is the closest to Africa, but if I were an African, I don't know if I'd want to move to a region that wanted to enslave my kind, and a region where racism still prevails. Having said that, it's a little odd Virginia has such a high concentration, but that seems to be in the DC metro area so I guess that's a little different.

[@staceyp5738]

Clearly AI generated. I still appreciate real people producing videos😢