Thanks! I often have trouble remembering all 5. I'll usually get 4 of them, but struggle with the last one, and it's not always the same one. Most often it's Huron.
Cascadia is named after the Cascade Mountains, which go from Canada into Northern California, and cut Washington State & Oregon into two parts. While the Front Range is named after the Front (Mountain) Range of the Rocky Mountains that are just west of Denver. So many of these are named after large natural features that aren't always very well known by name, even within the US. (The natural feature that is the Atlantic Piedmont would take a bit to explain, so I'm not going to do that here.)
Piedmont doesn't have to be complicated. In French píed is foot, mont is mountain. The Piedmont is the area of low rolling clay and dirt foothills between the flat sandy coastal plains and the true mountains of the Appalachian range
Yes, his pronunciation gave me a WTF moment.. this is my home region or atleast I'm right on the edge in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains.... which are backed up to the east side of the smokey mountains..... both of which make up the southern portion of the Appalachians .... as in Appa-la-chains ( no shhhh sounds) sorry for the soapbox 😂
The narrator has it wrong with Cascadia, this mega region lies between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Mountains. And, yes, there is a Northern Cascades National Park outside of Seattle, not to be confused with Arcadia National Park in Maine on the Atlantic Ocean.
Cascadia is between the Pacific Ocean and Cascade mountains. Geography by Geoff recently did a video on the entire Cascadia/Pacific Northwest region that explains it pretty well
Cascadia as mentioned is for the mountain range with Mt Rainier being the crowned jewel. The national parked in this area is called the same…Mt Rainier National park. In all of the Cascadia region there are 20 National Parks.. so much to see and so beautiful
Mount Baker is near the US/Canada border in Washington state. With Glacier Peak a bit further south. Mount Rainier, Mt. Adams and Mt St. Helens are in south central Washington and Mt. Hood is in northern Oregon. Mt Shasta in in Northern California forming the major peaks of Cascadia.
Cascadia means that the Cascade Mountain Range is dominant throughout the area. This mountain range forms the backdrop and barrier that defines the region.
And they. Are. Big. Gotta Love the Lake Effect Snow. Usually not just extra inches but feet of Snow. ❄️ The Great Salt Lake is another lake you can see from space. But. 1. It's Way over in Utah. Lol 2. Not sure exactly how true this is but. My parents used to say it had sooo much salt in it, you float while swimming in it. Next to it is the Bonneville Salt Flats. Where they do all the Land Speed Records. 1997 record set at 763 mph. The first land vehicle to beat the sound barrier.
I am stuck right in the middle of the Northeast megaregion (South Jersey). The cool thing about it is that I am only 15 miles from Philadelphia which is roughly halfway between NYC and Baltimore. Both are within less than 2hrs by car. Because of it's location between NYC and Philadelphia, New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the country. It probably has a population a little bit larger (deliberate understatement) than the friendly, little island it was named for😁
I've spent my life in 5 of them. Northeast(New Jersey), Great lakes (St. Louis, MO), Piedmont (Atlanta, GA, Huntsville AL, coastal NC), and Gulf Coast/Texas Triangle (Houston, TX).
James is definitely thinking of Arcadia National Park which is on the opposite side of the country in Maine. There is however a Cascadia STATE Park in Oregon.
The Cascade mountains runs north/south through central Washington and Oregon, going east there is then an expanse of somewhat flat land along the Columbia River valley, before you get to the Sawtooth Range of the Rocky Mountains in Idaho and Montana, very little of the population of Washington state lives in this eastern part of the state, which only gets a fraction of the amount of rainfall as the coastal region gets due to being in the rain shadow of the Cascades. I a side note I drove across a pass in the cascades on the last day of July about 35 years ago, and it snowed as we were crossing the pass.
Actually, the Cascades don't go through Central Oregon and Washington, they separate those regions from the Willamette Valley on the West side in Oregon and Puget Sound on the West side of Washington, or what is considered the West side, though as you get close to the Pacific, you have the Coast Range and farther north into Washington, you have the Olympics. The division basically follows close to I-5 all the way south into California.
I've been at Paradise Inn on Mt. Rainier on Mid-Summer Day and been snowed in for two days, meaning it didn't stop snowing for two days. We were staying there for a week so it didn't matter.
Re. Cascadia, remember this is a video about regions, not states. Rather than the Cascadia Mtns., they're the Cascade Mtns., and the national park in that area is N. Cascades N.P. I believe you know from other videos that Lake Tahoe gets the accent on the 1st. syllable--TAH-hoe. I'm not absolutely sure how he pronounced Piedmont, but it's PEAD-mont; I think he said pea-ed-MOAN(T), indicating a French twist to it. When he said 'jig-uh-LOP-uh-liss', he meant to start with 'gig'. as in 'gigabyte'.
a little great lakes history, the reason that area has grown so large is partly due to the public land survey system that was implemented shortly after the Midwest region became part of the US. because a lot of the land is so flat without landmarks it was hard to know where 1 plot ended and the next began. so, they cut the entire area into 1-mile by 1-mile squares to make it easier to manage selling the land. you can actually see this on google earth check out any rural area in that region they should pop out. turns out already having roads every mile makes it pretty easy for cities to pop up.
The Florida one is interesting because almost all of the population is around the boundary of the region and connected by just a handful of roads that cross hundreds of miles of nearly empty terrain in between the cities. I feel like it's something of a stretch to consider them all linked in such a way, though there is currently infrastructure being constructed in the form of the Brightline high speed rail that will eventually connect from Miami up to Cocoa Beach then across through Orlando and Disney over to Tampa.
The "Piedmont Atlantic" is new to me, and I LIVE in the region. We've always called it the I-85 "Corridor", seeing how it is basically the entire area from Alabama, through Atlanta Ga, through Charlotte NC and up into the Raleigh NC all along Interstate 85. Which makes sense in a way, seeing how you are going through at least 2 or 3 state Capitols, one of the largest cities due to the "banking industry" having multiple "regional headquarters" in those cities, and multiple Universities AND transportation hubs. Taking all of that into account, you end up with a far larger "clump" of population than you would in other regions of the individual states.
I'm from Tacoma WA born and raised and I'm from Cascadia and I've never heard it called Cascadia lol but what he explained about Megaregions is so true about where I was raised
Surprised you haven't hear of it. You should google it. there have been suggestion/ideas to make Cascadia a State or even its own country. even has a flag. Blue on top, white in the middle and green on the bottom with a Douglas fir overlayed.
Why am I not surprised that the front range of the Rockies gets passed over quickly as normal? We are always flyover country it seems. Right now we are having a mega snowstorm that is very exemplifies how this region is tied together by the Rockies. He should have spent more time on it.
I really can’t see any border or state lines changing. Our zip code was changed two years ago. Google has never caught on to that fact. . That guy is operating on assumptions.
I'm in the thumb of Michigan's mitten and I can feel that connection to these populated areas around the waters edge and expanding out. While also knowing other mega regions are separated by an ocean of no progression
Cascadia is the bioregion between the Cascade Range (the north-south mountain range that divides the wet westerm side of the Pacific Northwest from the dry desert side east of the mountains) and the Pacific Ocean. It's the stereotypical wet and drizzly part of the Pacific Northwest, and extends north up through British Columbia. There is also a Cascadia Movement, which -- often in a tongue-and-cheek way, but sometimes more seriously -- promotes the idea of Cascadian independence from both the USA and Canada.
Tucson is a nice place....they have a gem mineral fossil show that takes over the whole town late January to early February....I live about 4 hours from there & about 4 hours from the Southern California Corridor....the Sun Corridor is hundreds of miles long & I've been to every big city they mentioned in it
Feel this map is more accurate than others. Especially for the Great Lakes region. I live in MN and 100% identify with being from Great Lakes region as opposed to being from the Midwest, or Heartland.
States gain or lose congressional districts based on the ten year census. So if an area grows real fast, eventually they'll get an extra Representative. For Senators, every state gets 2 no matter how much they grow.
Okay, I don't know about the other regions, but this is the first time I've heard them called Mega Regions. I'm from Cheyenne, Wyoming (the little white dot at the top). We call the Front Range an Urban Corridor because there is a geographical region of the same name and similar area. Many would argue that adding Cheyenne to this is pushing it. There is a lot of open land between northern towns in Colorado and Cheyenne (as in like for at least 30 minutes driving 75 mph... all you'll see is open space with an occassional house). However, a lot of people are now living in Cheyenne and Commuting to those northern cities like Loveland, Fort Collins, and Greeley. Sometimes even Longmont or Denver. The southern end only goes to Pueblo, Colorado, not Santa Fe, New Mexico. And Pueblo is pushing it. Many would argue it stops just past Colorado Springs. An interstate called I-25 runs the length and it goes through Santa Fe, but the urban corridor does not extend out of Colorado. His yellow map was more accurate and he left out most of the cities.
Most of the land in these megalopolises is farmland, swamp or forest. Just because you could drive from a house in the middle to a job in the city doesn't make it continuous urban development.
Some of these are or partly continuous urban development. But I think concept is more so cities that are culturally and economically connected as region. Like Front Range for example are isolated from other cities making these cities have regional ties regardless that it's not continuous. You just associated those cities together.
Drought will also change the prediction for the areas as well. The Colorado river is/was (haven’t checked the numbers recently) going dry due to over usage and droughts to the point the federal government told the states that utilizes it to figure it out or they will. Those states figured out a tentative deal but it’s a continuous thing. Those states are California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah then from there it flows into Mexico. From what I last heard the states separated into 2 different fractions the upper and lower basins and it’s a never ending battle both verbal and in court.
Millie was right. The Cascade mountains run from Canada through Washington and Oregon into Northern California and are the source of the name of the Cascadia region. What the narrator was saying is that part of the megalopolis runs east past the Cascades almost to the Rockies. He even showed many Cascade mountains in one of the maps discussing the region (Mt Baker, Mt Rainier, Mt St Helen’s, Crater Lake.) This guy has good info but don’t rely on him for pronunciation. He butchered Piedmont, Boise, and Spokane among others.
I'm somewhat mystified why they appeared to include St. Louis and Kansas City in the "Great Lakes" MegaRegion. If one drives from St. Louis to Chicago (the most direct route to any Great Lake, in this case Lake Michigan), it would take over five hours on an interstate highway, and you would see very little regarding any connecting infrastructure along the way. Kansas City is even more distant from the Great Lakes. I don't think they can properly be included in the Great Lakes MegaRegion.
Cascadia name probably comes from the Cascade Mountains in WA, OR, and BC Canada. Cascadia is not a commonly used term in The US. There is alot of open country between cities in these area especially outside of the North East.
Don't be mislead into thinking those areas are strictly "urban". They aren't. Most of the geographical area highlighted by these regions are actually rural. It's just that they are influenced by larger cities within them.
I don't remember ever learning about geopolitical areas, but I've been out of school forty years. This info is almost 15 years old. The extrapolations are going to be wrong because they didn't take climate change into account. The population is already beginning to shift because of climate, but also because of economic changes.
The cascade mountains are not the rockies. Those mountains are 400 miles apart. And they will never change the states because of population. The person that put this together is not correct on a bunch of stuff
If you're visiting NorCal, SoCal, and Texas 🔺️, I suggest visiting Ft. Worth. You should see an example of a relatively large, clean, safe city, not overrun by homeless and mental illness. Unfortunately there's a lot of the opposite in other big cities in these areas. Not all of course, some of the suburbs are objectively wonderful. But if you're going to Dallas, go check out Ft. Worth. The river walk in San Antonio is nice as well. Austin & Houston can be overwhelming and shocking, same as L.A., S.F. & Oakland, if you haven't experienced a legitimate crisis of nihilism, run amook, in the form of giant homeless encampments and homeless populations before. Just so you know, not all big American cities are in this condition.
Watching this from a North East/New England state that isn't included in the North East megalopolis makes me feel like I live beyond the wall in Game of Thrones. I'M A TRUE NORTH EASTERNER WE DON'T BEND THE KNEE lmao (Vermont is a tiny state with a total population of roughly 650,000 and our biggest "city" is only like 45,000 people -- so it makes sense why we aren't included for this.)
There is no such thing as the Texas Triangle like the first one that includes Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Oklahoma City and Tulsa are completely separated. The Texas Triangle is the triangle between Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston. Located completely within Texas that he shows secondly. OKC and Tulsa make up their own little population in the middle of plains and hills.
GOOD VIDEO, YOU-GUYS!! I find it funny, too - that ANYTIME I look at a US map: I STILL can see MIMAL!!! He just stands out like a "sore thumb" to me!! Do you know MIMAL?? They taught us his name in elementary / grade school! Starting at the north-most point with Minnesota (that's his hat)....Iowa is his head / face....Missouri is his shirt....Arkansas is his pants, and Louisiana is his boots! Didn't know if anyone had shared that with you, or not....but, it's a great way to remember the states in that area! Beware, though: it'll get stuck in your head as LONG as YOU LIVE!! 🤣🤣🤣 HUGS, YA'LL!
So she knew where Toronto is but didnt know where the Great Lakes are? 🤔 That is like knowing where Athens, Greece is but not where the Mediterranean Sea is. Lol
I would be in the Piedmont Atlantic beingnorthof Nashville, I can affirm that it is constantly growing with outdated infrastructure that they typically just ignore.
lol I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area....the Bay Area and LA/SD are definitely not connected as shown in that map though. There's about 380 miles of basically nothing between them. Bakersfield is about 100 miles from LA but it's not part of the Bay Area, it's in the middle of nowhere. The biggest city in that area is probably Fresno with 500k people, but again, middle of nowhere, 100 miles from Bakersfield and 175 miles from Oakland (which is part of the Bay Area). We did vote for HSR to link the two megaregions, but the plan was stupid from day 1 and they burned through a lot of their budget and want 100 billion to complete it. I proudly voted no...don't get me started on that stupid project lol. 🙂
It objectively is in so many ways-climate, scenery, food, culture (high and low), entrepreneurialism and inventiveness, and raw wealth-but expect people seduced by the the latest media narrative and motivated by conservative politics to throw brickbats.
States will never change. Disputed small pieces of land on borders are still causing problems as to which state own it so changing large borders will never come to an agreement of the populous never mind state legislatures which have trouble agreeing on important things.
These kind of maps will help Europeans understand why we don't use HSR out here. We use lots of trains WITHIN each of the regions, but not to go BETWEEN them....they are hundreds of miles apart from each other. 🙂
The “Cascadia” region is inaccurate. The mountain range which runs from southern Oregon into Washington are known as The Cascade Range. One city doesn’t run into the next unless you’re talking about the Seattle or Portland metro areas. There’s plenty of rural area where this content creator is talking about.
Lost me at 10:13. Dude clearly has no clue what he's talking about and this is a great example of someone who isn't American who thinks they know more about the US than they actually do. There will not be any serious discussion about "redrawing borders" because states are not administrative districts of the federal government. There are several political issues that make this a non starter. There are no serious discussions about it and there won't be in your lifetime.
They arn’t official names. He’s not making all of them up but he is just making a video according to him. I don’t like this guy because he just makes shit up for controversy.
I think he 10x better than geography by geoff, and the Something different is just straight up terrible. ...... They straight up pump out misinformation. This guy just mispronounce and doesn't explain some things.
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You're close, Millie. The Cascade mountain range in the Pacific Northwest. 😊
The Great Lakes can easily be remembered by HOMES, Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior.
I LOVE those "reminders'!! THEY'RE GREAT - thanks for SHARING that!! Do you remember MIMAL??
We have a Nort Cascade in Washington State. We don’t have an area called Cascadia.
I love mnemonics. They're so helpful.
I'm from Michigan, and I've never noticed that before, lol.
Thanks! I often have trouble remembering all 5. I'll usually get 4 of them, but struggle with the last one, and it's not always the same one. Most often it's Huron.
Cascadia is named after the Cascade Mountains, which go from Canada into Northern California, and cut Washington State & Oregon into two parts. While the Front Range is named after the Front (Mountain) Range of the Rocky Mountains that are just west of Denver. So many of these are named after large natural features that aren't always very well known by name, even within the US. (The natural feature that is the Atlantic Piedmont would take a bit to explain, so I'm not going to do that here.)
People always forget about the Sierra Nevada and Cascade ranges. The main focus is always the Appalachian and Rockies.
Love the Northwest…… lived in Cali for 15 years , miss it ! So many beautiful places, all over the 🌎
BTW, Mt. St. Helens is one of the many volcanoes in the Cascade Range.
Oregonian here, I can confirm the above comment is correct. Also the National Park is called North Cascades National Park. It is beautiful.
Piedmont doesn't have to be complicated. In French píed is foot, mont is mountain. The Piedmont is the area of low rolling clay and dirt foothills between the flat sandy coastal plains and the true mountains of the Appalachian range
Here in Michigan, you can start at the bottom of the state, drive North about 6 hours, and if you look to your left it’s still the same lake.
Driving from one corner of Michigan to the other takes over 13 hours.
We would pronounce "Piedmont" as peed-mont, not a French accented version.
It's the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest, not the Rockies.
Yes, his pronunciation gave me a WTF moment.. this is my home region or atleast I'm right on the edge in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains.... which are backed up to the east side of the smokey mountains..... both of which make up the southern portion of the Appalachians .... as in Appa-la-chains ( no shhhh sounds) sorry for the soapbox 😂
Also pronouncing Eugene, OR, as 'You-zheen'?
@@wwoods66 Given them a break. I've heard extremely cringy pronunciations from other Americans.
Did you catch how Tahoe was pronounced?
Millie, you're correct. It is the Cascade Ranges. All of these take their names from geographical areas.
The narrator has it wrong with Cascadia, this mega region lies between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Mountains. And, yes, there is a Northern Cascades National Park outside of Seattle, not to be confused with Arcadia National Park in Maine on the Atlantic Ocean.
Cascadia is between the Pacific Ocean and Cascade mountains. Geography by Geoff recently did a video on the entire Cascadia/Pacific Northwest region that explains it pretty well
Cascadia as mentioned is for the mountain range with Mt Rainier being the crowned jewel. The national parked in this area is called the same…Mt Rainier National park. In all of the Cascadia region there are 20 National Parks.. so much to see and so beautiful
Mount Baker is near the US/Canada border in Washington state. With Glacier Peak a bit further south. Mount Rainier, Mt. Adams and Mt St. Helens are in south central Washington and Mt. Hood is in northern Oregon. Mt Shasta in in Northern California forming the major peaks of Cascadia.
The Great Lakes are very large. In fact they contain 8 islands larger in size than Jersey, several of which are uninhabited.
Cascadia means that the Cascade Mountain Range is dominant throughout the area. This mountain range forms the backdrop and barrier that defines the region.
the great lakes are in upper midwest from Minnesota to New York . West to east Lake Superior , Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario
And they. Are. Big. Gotta Love the Lake Effect Snow. Usually not just extra inches but feet of Snow. ❄️
The Great Salt Lake is another lake you can see from space. But.
1. It's Way over in Utah. Lol
2. Not sure exactly how true this is but. My parents used to say it had sooo much salt in it, you float while swimming in it. Next to it is the Bonneville Salt Flats. Where they do all the Land Speed Records. 1997 record set at 763 mph. The first land vehicle to beat the sound barrier.
I am stuck right in the middle of the Northeast megaregion (South Jersey). The cool thing about it is that I am only 15 miles from Philadelphia which is roughly halfway between NYC and Baltimore. Both are within less than 2hrs by car. Because of it's location between NYC and Philadelphia, New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the country. It probably has a population a little bit larger (deliberate understatement) than the friendly, little island it was named for😁
Cascadia refers to the Cascade Mts. not the Rockies which are hundreds of miles away
I've spent my entire life in 4 megaregions...New York NY, Miami Florida, Phoenix Arizona, Los Angeles California. Love them all.
I've spent my life in 5 of them. Northeast(New Jersey), Great lakes (St. Louis, MO), Piedmont (Atlanta, GA, Huntsville AL, coastal NC), and Gulf Coast/Texas Triangle (Houston, TX).
James is definitely thinking of Arcadia National Park which is on the opposite side of the country in Maine. There is however a Cascadia STATE Park in Oregon.
The Cascade mountains runs north/south through central Washington and Oregon, going east there is then an expanse of somewhat flat land along the Columbia River valley, before you get to the Sawtooth Range of the Rocky Mountains in Idaho and Montana, very little of the population of Washington state lives in this eastern part of the state, which only gets a fraction of the amount of rainfall as the coastal region gets due to being in the rain shadow of the Cascades. I a side note I drove across a pass in the cascades on the last day of July about 35 years ago, and it snowed as we were crossing the pass.
Actually, the Cascades don't go through Central Oregon and Washington, they separate those regions from the Willamette Valley on the West side in Oregon and Puget Sound on the West side of Washington, or what is considered the West side, though as you get close to the Pacific, you have the Coast Range and farther north into Washington, you have the Olympics. The division basically follows close to I-5 all the way south into California.
I've been at Paradise Inn on Mt. Rainier on Mid-Summer Day and been snowed in for two days, meaning it didn't stop snowing for two days. We were staying there for a week so it didn't matter.
Somewhere between the Northeast and Great Lakes regions you cross the "soda" and "pop" line when refering to carbonated drinks.
The narrator should have reseached the proper American pronounciation of Piedmont, Tahoe, Spokane, etc.
Cascadia comes from the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon.
People in the Florida Panhandle sometimes refer to the region as "Lower Alabama."
Re. Cascadia, remember this is a video about regions, not states. Rather than the Cascadia Mtns., they're the Cascade Mtns., and the national park in that area is N. Cascades N.P.
I believe you know from other videos that Lake Tahoe gets the accent on the 1st. syllable--TAH-hoe.
I'm not absolutely sure how he pronounced Piedmont, but it's PEAD-mont; I think he said pea-ed-MOAN(T), indicating a French twist to it.
When he said 'jig-uh-LOP-uh-liss', he meant to start with 'gig'. as in 'gigabyte'.
Driving from one corner of Michigan to the other takes over 13 hours, which is also the same amount of time it takes to go across California.
I’m from just north of Boston in New England, love your videos! Cheers!
I grew up and lives in South Eastern MA, and now live in Tampa Florida. It was 81F today!
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@@DonMega888Lynn, Lynn the city of sin...😁
my town is literally on the border of the great lakes in PA. most underrated part of the country. i’m not biased. 😂
There are gaps between Santa Fe NM and Colorado Front Range ... Though I-25 connects both.
a little great lakes history, the reason that area has grown so large is partly due to the public land survey system that was implemented shortly after the Midwest region became part of the US. because a lot of the land is so flat without landmarks it was hard to know where 1 plot ended and the next began. so, they cut the entire area into 1-mile by 1-mile squares to make it easier to manage selling the land. you can actually see this on google earth check out any rural area in that region they should pop out. turns out already having roads every mile makes it pretty easy for cities to pop up.
The way he says Gigalopolis 😂
He’s watched Back To The Future a few too many times
People dont realize how much industrial infrastructure detroit has the area may have lost a lot of people but the production aint slowing down
I live on the P of Piedmont at the 9:56 mark. Directly between the two biggest cities in Alabama. (Huntsville and Birmingham) 45 minutes from both.
6:30 The "random bit" is Salt Lake City where the Great Salt Lake is in
The Florida one is interesting because almost all of the population is around the boundary of the region and connected by just a handful of roads that cross hundreds of miles of nearly empty terrain in between the cities. I feel like it's something of a stretch to consider them all linked in such a way, though there is currently infrastructure being constructed in the form of the Brightline high speed rail that will eventually connect from Miami up to Cocoa Beach then across through Orlando and Disney over to Tampa.
The "Piedmont Atlantic" is new to me, and I LIVE in the region. We've always called it the I-85 "Corridor", seeing how it is basically the entire area from Alabama, through Atlanta Ga, through Charlotte NC and up into the Raleigh NC all along Interstate 85.
Which makes sense in a way, seeing how you are going through at least 2 or 3 state Capitols, one of the largest cities due to the "banking industry" having multiple "regional headquarters" in those cities, and multiple Universities AND transportation hubs. Taking all of that into account, you end up with a far larger "clump" of population than you would in other regions of the individual states.
I'm from Tacoma WA born and raised and I'm from Cascadia and I've never heard it called Cascadia lol but what he explained about Megaregions is so true about where I was raised
Surprised you haven't hear of it. You should google it. there have been suggestion/ideas to make Cascadia a State or even its own country. even has a flag. Blue on top, white in the middle and green on the bottom with a Douglas fir overlayed.
Millie is correct. There are the Cascade mountains in the PNW.
Why am I not surprised that the front range of the Rockies gets passed over quickly as normal? We are always flyover country it seems. Right now we are having a mega snowstorm that is very exemplifies how this region is tied together by the Rockies. He should have spent more time on it.
I really can’t see any border or state lines changing. Our zip code was changed two years ago. Google has never caught on to that fact. . That guy is operating on assumptions.
Absolutely ZERO chance of state lines being re-drawn.
This guy in the video can't even pronounce everything correctly.
@@tosweet68if you listen really closely, he says some words the British way.
@@tosweet68 I fully agree with you.
I'm in the thumb of Michigan's mitten and I can feel that connection to these populated areas around the waters edge and expanding out. While also knowing other mega regions are separated by an ocean of no progression
Cascadia is the bioregion between the Cascade Range (the north-south mountain range that divides the wet westerm side of the Pacific Northwest from the dry desert side east of the mountains) and the Pacific Ocean. It's the stereotypical wet and drizzly part of the Pacific Northwest, and extends north up through British Columbia.
There is also a Cascadia Movement, which -- often in a tongue-and-cheek way, but sometimes more seriously -- promotes the idea of Cascadian independence from both the USA and Canada.
Tucson is a nice place....they have a gem mineral fossil show that takes over the whole town late January to early February....I live about 4 hours from there & about 4 hours from the Southern California Corridor....the Sun Corridor is hundreds of miles long & I've been to every big city they mentioned in it
The Pacific Northwest has the cascade mountains..😂
The great salt lake in Utah is a big salty lake, the Great Lakes are misnamed, they are really large freshwater inland seas. They are magnificent
Gee what's the Ta-Ho region like? I wonder if it's like Tahoe.
😂
Greetings from Atlanta, largest population center of the Piedmont/Atlantic megaregion!
Feel this map is more accurate than others. Especially for the Great Lakes region. I live in MN and 100% identify with being from Great Lakes region as opposed to being from the Midwest, or Heartland.
States gain or lose congressional districts based on the ten year census. So if an area grows real fast, eventually they'll get an extra Representative. For Senators, every state gets 2 no matter how much they grow.
to remember the great lakes; Homes = Huron, Onterio, Michigan, Erie and superior
Okay, I don't know about the other regions, but this is the first time I've heard them called Mega Regions. I'm from Cheyenne, Wyoming (the little white dot at the top). We call the Front Range an Urban Corridor because there is a geographical region of the same name and similar area. Many would argue that adding Cheyenne to this is pushing it. There is a lot of open land between northern towns in Colorado and Cheyenne (as in like for at least 30 minutes driving 75 mph... all you'll see is open space with an occassional house). However, a lot of people are now living in Cheyenne and Commuting to those northern cities like Loveland, Fort Collins, and Greeley. Sometimes even Longmont or Denver.
The southern end only goes to Pueblo, Colorado, not Santa Fe, New Mexico. And Pueblo is pushing it. Many would argue it stops just past Colorado Springs. An interstate called I-25 runs the length and it goes through Santa Fe, but the urban corridor does not extend out of Colorado. His yellow map was more accurate and he left out most of the cities.
North America has 3 Mountain Ranges, Cascadian, Rocky and Appalachian (going left to right)
Locals in the Florida panhandle, call it LOWER Alabama, or L.A. For short!
Aren’t they embarrassed?
I've never heard of "megaregion" before, the only "megacities" I know of are from Judge Dredd. :)
Most of the land in these megalopolises is farmland, swamp or forest. Just because you could drive from a house in the middle to a job in the city doesn't make it continuous urban development.
Some of these are or partly continuous urban development. But I think concept is more so cities that are culturally and economically connected as region. Like Front Range for example are isolated from other cities making these cities have regional ties regardless that it's not continuous. You just associated those cities together.
Drought will also change the prediction for the areas as well. The Colorado river is/was (haven’t checked the numbers recently) going dry due to over usage and droughts to the point the federal government told the states that utilizes it to figure it out or they will. Those states figured out a tentative deal but it’s a continuous thing.
Those states are California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah then from there it flows into Mexico. From what I last heard the states separated into 2 different fractions the upper and lower basins and it’s a never ending battle both verbal and in court.
I live in a Mega region in Northern Cali⭐️I’ve lived here my entire life🩷
The cascades are mountains in the northwest
Never heard of these Area Names before...
I'm in America..never seen this map before
Not towns, cities, or states, but the region or part of the country you'll find these towns, cities, and states.
Liking Left Seat Millie!
Warming up the Biscuits and Gravy for yalls visit...
PS: Archie steals the show..
Rick
Charleston SC
I grew up in Great Lakes and now live in BosWash.
I live in the giant orange Great Lakes megaregion. I have also lived in that Texas triangle. Have family that live in the North Eastern one.
Millie was right. The Cascade mountains run from Canada through Washington and Oregon into Northern California and are the source of the name of the Cascadia region. What the narrator was saying is that part of the megalopolis runs east past the Cascades almost to the Rockies. He even showed many Cascade mountains in one of the maps discussing the region (Mt Baker, Mt Rainier, Mt St Helen’s, Crater Lake.)
This guy has good info but don’t rely on him for pronunciation. He butchered Piedmont, Boise, and Spokane among others.
I'm somewhat mystified why they appeared to include St. Louis and Kansas City in the "Great Lakes" MegaRegion. If one drives from St. Louis to Chicago (the most direct route to any Great Lake, in this case Lake Michigan), it would take over five hours on an interstate highway, and you would see very little regarding any connecting infrastructure along the way. Kansas City is even more distant from the Great Lakes. I don't think they can properly be included in the Great Lakes MegaRegion.
Toledo here, right on Lake Erie south of Detroit and West of Cleveland. 🫡✋️ high five!
Not the Rockies. The Cascades in Washington. Rockys are in the middle of country. He is wrong.
Spokane is pronounced: spo (as in flow) - can (as in band)
Cascadia name probably comes from the Cascade Mountains in WA, OR, and BC Canada. Cascadia is not a commonly used term in The US. There is alot of open country between cities in these area especially outside of the North East.
Don't be mislead into thinking those areas are strictly "urban". They aren't. Most of the geographical area highlighted by these regions are actually rural. It's just that they are influenced by larger cities within them.
I don't remember ever learning about geopolitical areas, but I've been out of school forty years. This info is almost 15 years old. The extrapolations are going to be wrong because they didn't take climate change into account. The population is already beginning to shift because of climate, but also because of economic changes.
His pronunciation of Piedmont is off, it's a French word, but it is pronounced Peedmont in the US
The cascade mountains are not the rockies. Those mountains are 400 miles apart. And they will never change the states because of population. The person that put this together is not correct on a bunch of stuff
If you're visiting NorCal, SoCal, and Texas 🔺️, I suggest visiting Ft. Worth. You should see an example of a relatively large, clean, safe city, not overrun by homeless and mental illness. Unfortunately there's a lot of the opposite in other big cities in these areas. Not all of course, some of the suburbs are objectively wonderful. But if you're going to Dallas, go check out Ft. Worth. The river walk in San Antonio is nice as well. Austin & Houston can be overwhelming and shocking, same as L.A., S.F. & Oakland, if you haven't experienced a legitimate crisis of nihilism, run amook, in the form of giant homeless encampments and homeless populations before. Just so you know, not all big American cities are in this condition.
Go to Orlandooooo!!! I’m willing to give yall free tickets to Universal 💪🏽💪🏽
Watching this from a North East/New England state that isn't included in the North East megalopolis makes me feel like I live beyond the wall in Game of Thrones. I'M A TRUE NORTH EASTERNER WE DON'T BEND THE KNEE lmao
(Vermont is a tiny state with a total population of roughly 650,000 and our biggest "city" is only like 45,000 people -- so it makes sense why we aren't included for this.)
There is no such thing as the Texas Triangle like the first one that includes Oklahoma City and Tulsa.
Oklahoma City and Tulsa are completely separated. The Texas Triangle is the triangle between Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston. Located completely within Texas that he shows secondly.
OKC and Tulsa make up their own little population in the middle of plains and hills.
Be careful with the names of some of those places. This person doesn't sound like they are from the US, and they got many of the pronunciations wrong.
You two are fun ! Loved you tasting PB n J for first time too😊 yup US is pretty big , a fan from New York ❤
As an American, I've never heard of these and it's probably an over-simplification.
Metro-Plex: Boston to Washington D.C. includes NYC, Philly, and Baltimore.
GOOD VIDEO, YOU-GUYS!! I find it funny, too - that ANYTIME I look at a US map: I STILL can see MIMAL!!! He just stands out like a "sore thumb" to me!! Do you know MIMAL?? They taught us his name in elementary / grade school! Starting at the north-most point with Minnesota (that's his hat)....Iowa is his head / face....Missouri is his shirt....Arkansas is his pants, and Louisiana is his boots! Didn't know if anyone had shared that with you, or not....but, it's a great way to remember the states in that area! Beware, though: it'll get stuck in your head as LONG as YOU LIVE!! 🤣🤣🤣 HUGS, YA'LL!
Tascade mous are beautiful.
Lake Erie is barely fresh, not as clean as it used to be.
The Cascade Mountains are volcanic mountains on the coast of Washington and Oregon. The Rocky Mountains are inland and are not volcanic.
See cascadia. Think of Timbers Sounders and Whitecaps. Just better than the other regions really
So she knew where Toronto is but didnt know where the Great Lakes are? 🤔 That is like knowing where Athens, Greece is but not where the Mediterranean Sea is. Lol
Its Peed-monT. Not Peahmon.
James my dude your AI Voice Impression had me spit out water
I would be in the Piedmont Atlantic beingnorthof Nashville, I can affirm that it is constantly growing with outdated infrastructure that they typically just ignore.
18 secons early??? Omgaaa
With air travel and WiFi the US is on big city.
95% of the economy exits within the US, Canada and Mexico.
Think about that one.😮
lol I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area....the Bay Area and LA/SD are definitely not connected as shown in that map though. There's about 380 miles of basically nothing between them. Bakersfield is about 100 miles from LA but it's not part of the Bay Area, it's in the middle of nowhere.
The biggest city in that area is probably Fresno with 500k people, but again, middle of nowhere, 100 miles from Bakersfield and 175 miles from Oakland (which is part of the Bay Area).
We did vote for HSR to link the two megaregions, but the plan was stupid from day 1 and they burned through a lot of their budget and want 100 billion to complete it. I proudly voted no...don't get me started on that stupid project lol. 🙂
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. The best area of the US.
It objectively is in so many ways-climate, scenery, food, culture (high and low), entrepreneurialism and inventiveness, and raw wealth-but expect people seduced by the the latest media narrative and motivated by conservative politics to throw brickbats.
States will never change. Disputed small pieces of land on borders are still causing problems as to which state own it so changing large borders will never come to an agreement of the populous never mind state legislatures which have trouble agreeing on important things.
Im from the north, and i can tell you the south would 10000% go to war over changing state boarders 😅😂😂
These kind of maps will help Europeans understand why we don't use HSR out here. We use lots of trains WITHIN each of the regions, but not to go BETWEEN them....they are hundreds of miles apart from each other. 🙂
They won't become individual states. Our system doesn't work that way. Not to mention it would split states in two, it's just not realistic.
The “Cascadia” region is inaccurate. The mountain range which runs from southern Oregon into Washington are known as The Cascade Range. One city doesn’t run into the next unless you’re talking about the Seattle or Portland metro areas. There’s plenty of rural area where this content creator is talking about.
That's not entirely the meaning.....he mentions it's not all city when first describing the Florida region
Lost me at 10:13. Dude clearly has no clue what he's talking about and this is a great example of someone who isn't American who thinks they know more about the US than they actually do. There will not be any serious discussion about "redrawing borders" because states are not administrative districts of the federal government. There are several political issues that make this a non starter. There are no serious discussions about it and there won't be in your lifetime.
Beesley yeah lmao the narrator is a European, he doesn't understand the culture lmao
They arn’t official names. He’s not making all of them up but he is just making a video according to him. I don’t like this guy because he just makes shit up for controversy.
I think he 10x better than geography by geoff, and the Something different is just straight up terrible. ...... They straight up pump out misinformation. This guy just mispronounce and doesn't explain some things.