Fascinating Maps of the US that will Change the Way You See the Country...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- Maps can tell you a lot about the world we live in. In this video, I take a look at some of my favorite maps of the US and the world, and the things they can teach us.
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Links to all the maps I used are in the description!
5:54 That's not Orthodox, that's blue or Protestant. There is a borough that is Catholic and another that is Orthodox, but the rest are Protestant.
I don't see the most popular last name map in the description
My bad, here it is: www.netcredit.com/blog/most-common-name-country/
@@ThatIsInterestingTII No problem, wasn't too hard to find on my own, just thought I'd lyk
Just watched your older videos. YOUR A KID???!!! Holy crap dude your stuff is good dude.
PS: take my advice and stay away from politics, it's evil and attracts the most minipulative people I've ever met in my life.
One truly unique linguistic anomaly that exists in Minnesota: Duck Duck Grey Duck. Everywhere else, the children’s game is called Duck Duck Goose, except in Minnesota it’s Duck Duck Grey Duck. Go figure.
Hilary Major yet another form of grey-duckism. 🙄 shame!
THA'S IT MINNESOTA! You're off the team. Madness....absolute madness.....
This Louisiana-raised Texan never heard of either one!
Duck, Duck, Grey Duck just makes more sense! Think about it...
I agree with this statement. I’m a transplant to MN from NC and I can’t get over this 😂
I forgot how good and underrated this channel is
Not many kides are in to politics etc
@@brycegrounds476 i did in 2015 i was 13
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I live in Madison, WI and grew up in a rural area outside the city. The rural areas outside the city are still heavily influenced by Madison, as the University of Wisconsin system (based in Madison) is the state's largest employer. The area is also big on conservation and environmental sustainability, which tend to be "blue" issues. The areas of this map that aren't Madison proper but are also blue include suburbs as well, which are still blue pockets.
Also, Wisconsin calls it a bubbler because they were originally made by a Wisconsin-based company (Kohler) that gave the original model that name. Or so the Wisconsin urban legend goes.
I would add strong union tradition throughout that area of the state too - and probably a combo of the factors you stated why it remains blue while much of the rust belt shifted
Also the recent success of Epic doubled the size of Verona and has 23 year old software devs buying up any houses they can find within 20 miles (southwest of Madison).
Replying to support some fellow Badgers who have some great points.
Also uw’s ag program has done a lot for area farmers which could also have an impact
Fun fact: The term "bubbler" was coined in Kenosha Wisconsin, reportedly the first city with a public drinking fountain which was called a bubbler. The bubbler is still standing in a little park near Lake Michigan, and I've had the pleasure of drinking that cold, cold water. :)
Which park? Eichelman?
I’m from PA too! The name hoagie comes from the Navy Yard on Hog Island in Philly. Italian workers introduced sandwiches with meat, cheese, lettuce, etc. and they became known as Hog Island sandwiches and were later shortened to hoagies 😊
#Katherine
OH OH! I may have learned something. I'm scared...Hold me! :-)
Thank you. Try to learn something new everyday.
Cool!
Wow I’m from PA and I didn’t know that
In England it's named after
the Earl of SANDWHICH.
In Habana a Cuban.
In Italy a Pannini
In France a Baguette
In Spain a Torta
In New York a Hero or a Sub.
In Mass.a Wedge or a a Grinder .
In some places a Loaf sandwhich,
or In Naw Lins
a PoBoy.
Wow and now I want one!😎😄
Living in Madison right now.
The area west of Madison extending to the state border (and slightly into Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois) is known as the Driftless Area. This area is geographically distinct from the rest of the midwest; it was spared from glaciation and is distinctly hilly in a sea of flatness (hence it is without glacial drift -- driftless if you will.) It's a fascinating region for its geography alone.
The Driftless Area's left political lean has allot to do with Wisconsin's history in progressivism (the Republican party was founded in the Wisconsin back when it stood for abolition and environmental conservation), Nordic roots, and the fact that the driftless area is very isolated. There's a strong streak of environmental conservation in the area.
The Driftless Area is one of the most low key fascinating pockets of the US.
Never knew that, thanks!
I think it's just Epic. It's a similar situation in the counties where I am west of Detroit. University town surrounded by tech companies founded by grads for about 30 miles out.
Thanks for reminding me about the beauty of western WI! I lived in Madison for several years, and enjoyed drives to Mineral Point and surrounding areas. Not to mention shorter drives to New Glarus and Devil’s Lake.
I live in the Twin Cities now, which just can’t compare. Seriously, as soon as you cross the LaCroix River into WI (at any latitude,) the scenery immediately improves 😂
lol here I am leaving my little stupid comment and of course here comes some fuckin scientist with a much more informative comment, you know what Nicholas you can shove it.
@@geoffwitt4227 ^^ thats what I said in my comment. its a college town, plus theres more black and mexican residence than there's ever been if I'm not mistaken.
Your sandwich map had “other” over Louisiana. Here it’s called a Po-boy.
We call them that in NW Florida too.
Literally came to say the same thing.
PoBoys are the good Boys.
Your shrimp and oyster poboy sandwiches are the best 👌
@@sw3dishla8rat agreed! Roast beef ain’t bad either but the seafood po boys are special!
A Madisonian here, with an answer to a question you posed in your NYT 2016 presidential map breakdown about why "rural" counties around Madison are blue. The answer is that our version of blue suburbs extends far beyond the typical boundaries due to the cities industry. We are the state capital so we have lots of government as well as a large research institution, UW madison, and lack a lot of typical conservative industries. Having government and a UW Madison spawns other liberal kinds of organizations like Epic health systems, other biomedical research, and organizations that support the local government. This creates the blue suburbs in addition to the lack of other forms of business which are all based in Milwaukee, which has very red suburbs. Also, Madison is fairly small and still growing, therefore, the commuting is fairly quick and people can live even outside of the county and be considered in a suburb. This is why the blue sprawl is so large. Hope this helps
Being a Philadelphian I appreciate the last minute being dedicated to Pennsylvania. The WaWa/Sheetz divide is almost as strong as the Eagles/Steelers or Flyers/Penguins. And I never realized just how much of a island we were on with the hoagie thing, especially here in the Philly/South Jersey area.
I'm from the lower Northeast Philly and only knew of hoagies until I moved to Maryland in 1990.
It's actually funny, I've lived all my life here in Eastern Pennsylvania and I never even heard of Sheetz until this video. I legit had no idea there was a divide to be had. I also always just used sub and hoagie interchangeably and assumed it was the same in most places. Guess not.
@@Chillz_OG Yeah, my first Sheetz was in central Virginia on US 15 where US 17 splits off for I95, Opal, south of Warrenton. Rural crossroads, convenient spot to get gas...
@@Chillz_OG I'm from Erie and i had no clue Wawa existed either. Also I assumed hoagies were just a weird Pittsburgh thing but I guess Phili and Allentown have it the same.
I live in reading ... we got both sheetz and wawa, half a mile from each other . Didn't know there was such a divide between the two franchises lol . But there's definitely a lot more eagles and phillies fans
The Wawa/Sheetz map reminds me of something my brother said one time in reference to "Pennsyltucky", the common nickname for the mostly rural gap between the Philadelphia region (where we both grew up) and Pittsburgh region. His assessment is pretty much confirmed by the map.
"You know you've crossed into Pennsyltucky when the Wawas end and the Sheetz begin."
It was great because living on the west coast i have never heard of either! lol
@@bluepearlgirl-emelie I moved to PA from NY, and before that I hadn't heard of either
The difference between soda versus pop can be traced to the market penetration of woolworths over 100 years ago. In the Midwest the proliferation of true “soda fountains” meant that bottled beverages like coke or Pepsi were referred to as pop, while a drink made at the fountain containing carbonated water and a syrup in flavours like cherry, strawberry, chocolate was a soda. In areas where soda fountains had less market penetration bottled beverages were not seen as different compared to the drink that could be ordered at a Woolworth’s lunch counter.
I always thought pop was a Buffalo thing. Rarely hear it outside this area.
@@axe2grind244pop is a midwest thing.
@@CB-ke5xx Pacific Northwest says pop, too. Well, it used to before Californians invaded.
Living near Lincoln England, your maps tell me so much about the USA. Thankyou. I am still trying to make sense of the world after over 80 years!
A lot of rural areas have a history of farmer-labor progressive politics, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio. It is the populist economic message for union workers in factories, mining operations, and for government protection and subsidies for small farms which led the left wing movements from the 1890s-1970s, and is a reason why West Virginia was a Democratic state long after the rest of the south. Vermont is a very agrarian state, and we have adopted many of these agrarian values into our political system. Only recently has the Democratic party became focused on social liberalism over economic leftism, and is why many of these once progressive strongholds, as in northern Minnesota, western wisconisn, eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and Iowa, are now becoming solidly Republican. These remaining blue counties are remnants of what the Democratic (and Farmer-Labour and Progressive) parties represented to union workers and farmers.
@@erincarson8998 The GOP technically ended racism but like, party switch happened? The KKK and other white supremacist groups support Republicans now. And most anti-racist movements support the Democrats (though I agree the DNC don’t do shit about racism)
@@erincarson8998 lol please, you have no idea what you're talking about. Democrats supported gay marriage, equal rights, drug legalization, etc - things Republicans oppose.
Most libertarians vote... libertarian. I'm very socially liberal and a proud Democrat.
Elliot A! The Democrat party is the most hate-filled, sadistic, Anti-American entity ever to disgrace this great land ~ That's the TRUTH !!
@@erincarson8998 you're bringing up things from 50-150 years ago. Parties can change, and the Democratic and Republican parties both have.
And I'm 100% in favor of GND - it doesn't go far enough.
@@erincarson8998 lol
To answer your question at 4:53, I live in Stoughton, WI which is part of the Madison Metro area. Most people who live in these smaller cities 15-30 minutes from Madison proper also work in and travel to the city for things they can’t get in their small city. The top 10 most democratic cities in Wisconsin including my own, are all located in Dane County. People in urban cities vote blue because of exposure to other races, cultures, and religions in areas with a high variety of people, as opposed to one type of people dominating a smaller community. If people work and spend a lot of their time in the city, this phenomenon will most likely occur. This spreads through all of Dane County and into some of the surrounding counties, such as Columbia, Sauk, and Rock counties. Menominee county in NW Wisconsin is a Native American reservation with no incorporated towns, you mentioned how native Americans voted democratic, and this is the case where you have a pocket of blue surrounded by typical rural and more republican areas and towns
Him, a Pennsylvanian: “both of which are over the top convenience stores”
Me, a Texan: *laughs in buccees beaver nuggets*
Yeahhhhhh partner
Buccees got everything
You can do your Christmas shopping at Buccees
@@vibingopossum6898 I know at least 2 people who have done exactly that
Bucees is like a Walmart essentially. Just with overpriced clothes, gifts, etc. (Yes I'm Texan)
The west side of Madison, WI are people that commute into the city for their government or university jobs.
South of Madison, can confirm. The democratic votes extends about a 30 minute commute from Madison proper.
Don't forget the influence of Epic in Verona
Can confirm this as well. I used to live in Stoughton, WI (south of Madison), and many people commute from external cities such as Stoughton, Oregon, Fitchburg, Verona, Waunakee, Deforest, Sun Prairie, Cottage Grove, etc, which are located on all sides of Madison.
In a subsequent map he mentioned UW is the primary employer in Wisconsin. There ware 9 campuses spread around southern Wisconsin.
@@MichaelHampton-Whitney Right. Epic has about "9k" employees (wiki) but they employ boats of temporary contractors. They are very liberal and carry their families and community with them.
Bubbler was a company that made drinking fountains. in 1889, a man named Harlan Huckleby designed the very first bubbler. He Lived in Kholer WI. I think he had family in Road Island or Maine. Bubblers were also sold there, but the company went under, but the name brand stuck. (Just like people call adhesive medical strips band-aids.)
Definitely a great video on all different types of maps and how they convey info. Just took a cartographic design class and a lot of those maps were just awesome
As a swiss with relatives in PA I always thought that hoagie is a widely used term in the US 😂
It is used too. Hoage is often smaller than a sub, almost like a long roll.
Unless one lives in or near Louisiana where that type of sandwich is called a Po' Boy.
Re: the sandwich map.
Note how LA/So. MS almost fall into “other.” that’s almost certainly because of the muffaletta and the po’ boy - both are NOLA creations.
I was under the impression that most people from the deep south (with the exception of Florida (which may or may not be deep south)) tended to call them Po'boys. Is that just a Mississippi thing?
@@SlimThrull no
@@SlimThrull i'm from Alabama, and we call them subs. I only consider them po-boys if they are hot and contain seafood - fried being the most common for me. I'm sure there are more educated opinions than mine though.
@@SlimThrull I live in the area and we tend to call cold sandwiches like that subs. Po boys just happen to be very common so if you asked what we call an elongated sandwich and just gave a general description you are liable to get either answer depending on what people think of first, a hot sandwich or a cold one.
@@joyfuljaj my grandfather at one time informed me that a po-boy or poor boy was anything left over from last nights dinner. Thrown onto a length of French bread. his personal favorite was spaghetti. It's simply a coastal term so that's where the association with seafood came from. That's how I understand it.
As a New York native that migrated to, and stayed in, Ohio, this was very interesting. Thanks!
Great video. Much appreciated.
I have wonder about some of the topics you covered and wondered where to find the info. Thanks for the info and the links. Much appreciated. 🙂
Music and waves at the end: sublime.
Many thanks!
My boy Carter back to uploading consistently 😍😍😍😍💪🏻
Fascinating Video!!! Thank You!!
wow, i didnt know most of this existed. thanks! Will be checking these maps out in more detail soon!
I loved this video! Thank you for posting it. I have always been interested in geographical and linguistic oddities, funny borders, dialects and variations in speech as well as politics.
God, this is the kind of sap I am. Put all of us to a map, describe just a few details, as some gentle orchestral music plays, and I start crying.
Terrific. Thank you
I noticed a problem with the last names map. In Russia, the most common surname is listed as "Ivanovna," but that's not a surname. Ivanovna is a female patronym. Ivanovna essentially means "daughter of Ivan." The problem is that patronyms are basically middle names. An real name would be Sonya Ivanovna Tolstoy. Tolstoy being the surname, not Ivanovna.
Let’s not talk about R right now
Let's talk about anything we want. Feel free to move on if the subject causes internal strife.
Wouldn't it change to Tolstoya for females like Sonya?
I like how the name you picked means Sleepy Chubby Daughter of Ivan.
You earned my subscription! Fantastic video!
Hope there is a part 2 to this video/category. Well done!
Very interesting! Thank you
Thanks for all the great info! Excellent!
This is fantastically informative and I am ecstatic I ran across this creator and the content contained within. As an electrical engineer, maps and schematics endlessly fascinate me. I have dabbled in cartography and statistics on an amateur/hobby level for over 45 years of my professional career. Thank you for sharing this, it is appreciated.
I wish good health, happiness and all the best to you and yours!
Thank you loved all the maps. I was a truck driver and noticed many of these. Would you be able to make a map of geographic similarities of areas of US compared to different regions of the world? I noticed regions of northern California and Washington state and Iowa look a lot like the Netherlands.
OmG, that was interesting!! Thanks!
fantastic video. extremely illuminating
the employer map is actually the scariest.... Wall Mark is a monstrosity
At least they're private sector. The university domination is even scarier.
Try living in the "Walmart bubble" aka Northwest Arkansas
@@redleader7988 I work for a SUNY. I enjoy my work. I can offer the cheapest tuition and best education in the state. 15,900 beat it. Marist is a whopping 40,000. Vassar I won't even put it out there.
@@MeaghanTamara I worked for a university for 20 years and liked my job as well. The point is, government agencies do not generate net tax revenue and should not be the majority employer in any state.
@@redleader7988 how is an education that actually contributes to the country scary??
Huge props for the Wawa vs. Sheetz map
why do I love this channel ?
Well done sir. Great job with all your research as it’s obvious you have a passion for it as I do.
My folks grew up in Atlanta after WWII and they couldn't get Pepsi at all there, not for a long time. When they moved back to the Atlanta area when I was three (I was born in Asheville, NC) I remember Pepsi being somewhat available by then. But Southerners drank Coke instead of Pepsi as a matter of pride; Pepsi expanded more northhward, though it originated in eastern North Carolina, and was sometimes viewed as a "Northern Drink". Finally, Coca Cola held a lot of influence in the South and could sometimes force Pepsi out of the market entirely, especially in Atlanta and its suburbs. For the record, my maternal grandparents wouldn't allow me to drink Pepsi as they were lifelong Georgians. For them it was a matter of pride.
Notice on the sandwich map Long Island was the only place to call it a “hero.” Never realized nowhere else in the country called them that....
thank god your videos found me again, not gonna let you get away this time
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I love this channel!
Really liked the topics you chose to explore, a distinction between other map sites. Am in a NW Philly suburb with access to both Wawa and Sheetz. You are right on about the interstate rivalry. But beware of the outsider invasion from Maryland: Royal Farms. Quickly gaining a foothold and with the best convenience store fried chicken I have ever had.
Royal farms will never take over Wawa
Loved this video! I am from one of the areas that is blue in the rural areas by Madison, WI. In part, I can explain it that my hometown has a high influence from Chicago natives, as well as having a high LGBTQ+ population. So despite it being rural and white, we don't tend to vote conservative. I hope this distinction provides some perspective! Thanks for all you do!
That really was interesting, cool vid
This was far better than I expected good video
14:45 What's really interesting is you can kind of see the Illinois and Des Plaines rivers. This matches my growing up in a town on the Fox River, a tributary of the Illinois River close to Chicago. Most people said soda but you wouldn't think twice if someone said pop. My latest theory, and it's entirely conjecture, is that Chicagoland and the towns along the Illinois River were heavily industrialized in the first half of the 20th century and were regularly receiving people moving in from Milwaukee and St. Louis as it became more common for people to move within a few hours train ride or drive from their parents.
I grew up along the Illinois River and the term I always heard and use to this day is "soda pop". Must be a legacy of living along the border between soda country and pop country!
Since I live in NC, that burger map is in accurate.
Unless it’s super old, Cook Out would be all over the place.
Rowan County shows Jack in the Box... not a single Jack in the Box in this county (Rowan)
Alaska should be McDonalds or N/A depending on how granular they want to get. Seems like the data source for that map wasn't accurate.
Thank you!! Indeed, interesting.
Really interesting video. Thanks!
"'I guess in the South, a Pepsi is a kind of coke.'" Oh, you don't know the half of it. Not only is Pepsi a coke, 7 Up is a coke. It's madness I tell you, or so everyone who didn't grow up with tells me.
I was at a family reunion once, and a cousin asked me if I wanted something to drink, and I said, "yeah, a coke," and then they walked off without asking me which kind! When he came back with the Coke, I said I didn't want a Coke coke, I wanted a 7 Up, and he was _lost_.
you gotta ask what kinda coke you got?
I'm from New Orleans, but my first job was working food service at Disney. When I was on the register, I would ask people, "Do you want a coke or tea with your combo?" Good ole Southerners, horrified that the tea was "unsweat" would pick a coke. People from the Midwest and N.E. would get angry if they didn't want a coke and protest that they wanted Dr. Pepper or Sprite. People from the West Coast couldn't get used to the idea that we didn't sell Pepsi.
My brother once visited Minnesota (we are europeans) and after the first culture shock (they served hot dogs with potato chips instead of bread for breakfast) he was asked if he liked a pop. The only kind of "pop" that he knew about was "pop music" so he was a little confused and said: "No, i'd like something to drink." which for his hosts sounded like he wouldn't treat soft drinks as beverage in general.
Fun fact: In arab countries people prefer to drink Pepsi, because Coca Cola is "too american". I don't get this explanation either.
Hot dogs with bread??? That’s just as weird to Americans as it is to you guys! Haha.
I used to work at a theme park in Arkansas that only sold *Pepsi* products (the horrors!). Eventually I developed the habit of, after asking what they wanted to drink and hearing the guest say “Coke”, asking “Is Dr. Pepper ok?” All proper Southerners know the correct answer to “Is Pepsi ok?” Pepsi is never ok! Back when I *actually* tried to up sell the Pepsi, I usually got the response “Aw hell no! Pepsi is not ok! Do you have Dr. Pepper?” At least three times an hour during a shift.
Yeah. Not much love for Pepsi. I’m surprised that park still sells Pepsi to be honest, but then they have a long term contract with Pepsi.
i live in Pittsburgh but am from Johnstown originally. i even lived in Lancaster for a bit. PA is very different from east to west and the central area is a major blend. i speak a very weird Pittsburghese, and people wherever I've lived have noticedd
. excellent video
Thank you!
This is a fgreat video; thanks!
Nah. Louisiana’s largest private employer is a hospital
10:00 scary that WalMart is the largest employer in so many states.
End result of all those mom & pop shops getting edged out by big box stores. It's only natural the big box stores would end up employing more people than anyone else. Especially when a bunch of them start to go belly up, and business gets consolidated amongst the few that have managed to survive.
@@kuuryotwo5153 I used to paint new Walmart stores. Walmart would build those where local stores didn't have much to offer since their business districts had been dying for years. The new Walmart stores brought in traffic from all around so their business districts came back to life with new stores selling what Walmart didn't offer. Other businesses would build new locations near the Walmart which provided more job opportunities for the local residents. The small town governments liked Walmart since one store could bring in so many new businesses with all providing a substantial amount of sales and property tax revenue that was sorely needed.
@@billwilson3609 So says a MallWart public relations man!
Quality work
Great video! Thanks for doing this!
He delivers on his promise, that IS interesting
14:05 I live in the south and Dr Pepper is really big down here and Pepsi is almost non existent. It’s so weird when you go out of the south and they don’t have Dr Pepper at restaurants.
Yeah that pisses me off. “Do YoU wAnT a Dr PiBb InStEaD?”
where in south?
West texas
Where out of the south? I’ve never not been able to get a Dr. Pepper.
So cool. Thanks for sharing!
This video is very educational. Thank you for sharing with us.
Great channel, Cart(ographer)! I love maps and loved teaching map interpretations to my 5th and 6th graders😆.
I love cartography because of my 5th and 6th grade geography teacher! I'm turning 62 next week, so the love is a strong and lasting one! I hope you touched at least one of your students in a like manner. The irony. 😁
As someone from Central jersey (yes it exists I live there), the Wawa vs Sheetz map couldn't be more true. I always think Wawa is superior even though I've never stepped foot inside a Sheetz, and the opposite can be said for people who only go to Sheetz. My sister recently started at Penn State, which has no Wawa anywhere near them, and I felt betrayed when she went to a Sheetz for the first time. In the end though, it's just a silly rivalry that is fun to be a part of. I'm sure they are fundamentally the same, but the cultural differences make the rivalry between the two more interesting.
Though I now live in Maryland, I grew up in Central Jersey (Middlesex County) and didn’t even realize there was a debate about its existence until well into my adulthood. I mean, we have our own area code and everything! I vehemently reject any suggestion that I’m from either North or South Jersey. I worship at the altar of Wawa but Quick Chek is pretty good too; I went to the real Rutgers in New Brunswick, not those fake ones in Newark or Camden; I root for the Devils and the Mets; my school lunch menu said “pork roll,” not Taylor ham like those heathens up north; and I drink neither “co-aw-fee” nor “wooder,” damn it! 😆
I grew up really close to State College (Altoona) lol, Sheetz are everywhere!
@@IdliAmin_TheLastKingofSambar Now I’m curious: what is a “pork roll,” a.k.a. “Taylor ham”? Is is like a pulled pork BBQ sandwich?
@@goosebump801 Hi Goosebump! I can’t claim to be a connoisseur or anything, but basically, pork roll is a processed meat originally created in New Jersey back in the 19th century, and it’s basically the official food of the state. It kind of hard to describe, other than to say that it’s a type of processed pork product that comes packaged in a roll/cylinder shape. I guess I’d describe it as a weird cross between ham, bologna, Canadian bacon (aka back bacon), and regular bacon. You really won’t find it anywhere outside of NJ, other than maybe the occasional sighting around the Philly area and in parts of Delaware. Supposedly it’s made it to Maryland too, but I moved to Maryland last year and have yet to come across it. But I guess the geographies of pork roll and Wawa overlap pretty significantly.
Pork roll, egg, and cheese is New Jersey’s breakfast of champions, which is probably why we suffer from a lack of champions lol. When I went to Rutgers, I would get a sausage, egg, and cheese AND a pork roll, egg, and cheese, with alarming regularity. Both on rolls, both with home fries. Because while college kids aren’t known for making outstanding life choices, they are known for being able to eat Tupperware and be fine.
There are multiple brands now, but Taylor’s is the original. Apparently, it was first called Taylor’s Prepared Ham, but it didn’t meet the government’s definition of ham so they renamed it Taylor’s Pork Roll (since it’s made of pork, and comes in a roll, I suppose). South Jersey tends to call it pork roll, North Jersey tends to call it Taylor ham. In Central NJ, where I grew up, it seems to be 50-50, but on our school lunch menus, it was always listed as “pork roll,” where it was a weekly staple.
That was way longer of an answer than you probably wanted, but it’s a nostalgic thing for me, and it’s a unique and unifying piece of local culture in a state that doesn’t have many of them (notwithstanding disagreements over what to call it!). Thanks for asking! 🥪
When I'm in Central PA I usually find a Rutters so I don't have to go to Sheetz lol.
Very, Very Informative~~~Thanks for all the hard work preparing this video for us!
youse doing a a bang up job!
10:17 The largest employer in Colorado is Denver International Airport? Holy shit...
Have you seen the size of that Basterd , see it then you'll get it That F*cker is Vast , " .
@@bernardcalloway2205 more vast and mysterious than we will ever know.
Check out the graphically satanic artwork in that airport. Don't laugh - some people claim the airport was built on top of a hellmouth. If you see the artwork it makes some sense...
@@pegster6 I heard it was all replaced by posters mocking conspiracy theorists and with construction projects going on behind
@@DerHammerSpricht Hadn’t heard that. If so, it’s due to the public exposure from 2-3 years ago and public outrage!
👍🏼 As a Midwesterner who frequently travels to the East, I wondered where the Wawa-Sheetz Divide was! Many thanks! 😎
Very informative! Thank you
Blimey, this is REALLY interesting. I can just see my procrastination getting much worse now, as I play around with these maps.
Fascinating vid.
I have been looking at the political map for at least a year now. Can't wait for the 2020 version.
edit: map
Theresa May?
I'm originally from Western PA, live in Atlanta and I really miss Sheetz, lol! Thanks for mentioning!
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To your question about the rural areas around Madison, WI:
I worked a service job where I'd frequently go to properties and talk with customers from this area. A lot of them are retirees from careers in Madison, or its seamless satellite cities (e.g. Verona, Waunakee). Others are "misplaced Madisonians" who work in the area, but don't participate in the highly competitive real estate market in the city proper. There's about a twenty mile buffer around Madison that's rural, but still more progressive than similarly sized rural areas just a few counties over.
BTW. Love the channel !
Many fascinating maps. Makes me wish that more maps like these were made for Ireland because they're rare due to the country's tiny population. Great to see more regular videos again.
I feel your pain, i am from austria. Not that many maps either, although the national statistics bureau (statistik austria) provides some data, they just don't show many maps, just graphs and lists.
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At least you have it better than some people who their countries don’t appear on a map :-)
@@omaralkayal7598 That has to be every country with the amount of maps that have been made.
I live in the area that says pop but because my family is from California we still say soda and i never even really thought about it till now.
Truly fascinating.
just stumbled across this video and was excited to hear you’re from PA! loved the wawa v. sheetz map lol
You put a lot of work into these. They really are fantastic. Respect my bro.
I live in Northwest Wisconsin. Madison is one of the biggest liberal hubs in the state most likely because the University. The University in Madison, which the is same college where the Badgers call their home, tends to have a lot of students of different races and of course these areas often become more Liberal in the process. Also Madison has one of the largest economies in the state with lots of Insurance companies too and there was an influx of people who have moved from Chicago as well. Madison has a higher cost of living than many of the surrounding counties so many have moved out to the surrounding counties because of their affordability which still within a commute to their jobs. I would like to note that it's also very common for people to live in Madison and commute to Milwaukee for work and vice versa. It's a very fascinating culture down there. I have wanted to move down there although I have given up on that attempt. But I can shed a little bit of light on it. There are people down there who can probably give a better answer. I do have some relatives in a suburban city called Sauk City which is about 20 miles outside of Madison and my mom had an uncle who was a state patrol in Dane County which is home to Madison.
Such a great video!
I love that that was all very interesting and entertaining
Your just as good as every other learning channel like wendover or real life lore.
He did not just call West Virginia a midwest state, that is blasphemy
I’d consider Pittsburgh in the Midwest 😂😂 but perhaps West Virginia would rather be in the South or called the Appalachia region?? Genuinely curious what folks from West Virginia consider their region is!
Katherine we say we’re from the south for the most part but keep our pride as appalachians
I mean, you have "West" in the state name... ;)
@ Almost heaven is in western Virginia, not West Virginia. This is from a VA resident.
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Great video, should have more views.
I like maps! New sub
14:05 what is your generic term for a sweetened carbonated beverage?
Oklahomans: We do not speak of the beverage which has no name.
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This is the most interesting boring video I've seen this week. Thank you: Great work from a fellow cartographer.
Fascinating! It seems well researched. Thanks for citing your source materials. There is too much misinformation on the internet; I appreciate it when sources are given. I verify the facts the first couple of times I find a new TH-camr and, if I find the info in the presentation checks out, I begin to trust the source. I have come to trust your videos.
I love informational graphics, specially maps. Loved this video and even more when you said you were from PA. From 'da Burgh here.
Peace and thank you for the video.
Wawa and Sheetz have a unofficial agreement to respect each other's territory, according to the Wawa book I read years ago. This is why Wawa looked to Florida to expand a decade ago. Wawa has also re-expanded into North Jersey as they slowly move northeast... but that expansion is slow due to how crowded the property market is.
I won't opine here on which is better, Wawa or Sheetz, as I have an obvious bias living in NJ, but I have seen how profitable Wawa is for its size, so it just stomps Sheetz for profit. I can only imagine that at some point, Wawa is going to have to either expand into Sheetz territory or jump over it to Cali or the Midwest to continue growth.
@jagfruit 1 I was going to suggest that, but I suspect Wawa doesn't have quite the size to easily do that.
They could merge, but that seems like a branding nightmare, as both names carry a lot of loyalty. Personally, I don't care for the Hardee's/Carl's Jr. or Checkers/Rallys situations... ;-)
In northern VA we have commercials only for Wawa but only have Sheetz.
Sounds stupid, "wawa".
Here in Georgia, never had a "wawa", though I have seen them on road trips.
Quick Trip is the most popular gas station in Georgia.
@@willp.8120 Wawa dates back to 1890 as a dairy farm and 1803 as an iron foundry named after the town of Wawa, Pennsylvania dating back to the 1700s. "Wawa" is an Ojibwe word for "wild goose" because of the geese attracted locally, hence the goose as corporate mascot and geese on the signs and corporate motifs.
If it still sounds stupid, than I guess you are prejudiced against Native Americans and geese.
As for Quick Trip being the most popular gas station in Georgia... Might not be for long. Wawa just recently announced that they will be embarking on a massive expansion program of 900 stores mostly into the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama... and they have the cash to do it. Judging by the growth in Florida, you will likely have several Wawa options by 2030.
@@buckykattnj I doubt Wawa would be more popular than Quick Trip. Besides, we also now have Buc-ees, and it's the king of gas stations.
Ok, you got to me... I subscribed.
Great documentary and explanations
Love the interesting map video. Always enjoy them!