Flyover states is definitely a derogatory term for everything between the east coast states and the west coast states. Those of us from the “flyover states” have leaned into it though. Kind of like, “Yeah, if you’re going to disrespect us, then just fly on over. We’d rather not have you here.”
ehhhhh, in my experience its been far more of a self pity term for people living in the middle of the country. It certainly depends on perspective and circumstances. But often, it feels like a "why won't anyone pay attention to us?!" sort of vibe from some states in the middle of the country.
Well, I wouldn't jinx yourself, if you live in the middle lol. Cause the way its going now, the middle states will become populated a lot quicker, than anyone imagined.
@@robertk2007 Robert, I did not even suggest we would physically bar a-holes from entering our home states. I simply stated that if people don't want to respect us, we'd rather you stay away. That's called an "opinion." Three syllables, I know...sound it out. And the neat thing about opinions, is that we are guaranteed the freedom to have them and express them. It's not for you to supress. I'd go into the first amendment and the constitution, but that gets into four-syllable words, and I don't want to stress you out.
I'm from Oklahoma and I've never felt that it was a derogatory term. Though, when I travel people will ask some of the craziest questions. Example: Do you live in a teepee? and, Do the buffalo's just come up to your teepee so you can feed them? It took us getting an NBA team that's in downtown Oklahoma City for them to realized that it's not out of the ordinary. I love living here... I like that I can have my own property, not have neighbors right next to me... but I'm also a 10 minute drive into downtown. I can actually see one of the high rises from my house.
Yes sir..I was raised in a small town in Oklahoma called Guthrie, couldn't wait to leave. Went to college, married, had a good career..Wife and I took a vacation to SW Arkansas to do some dispersed camping outside of Mena.. Absolutely felt more at peace than I had in years, six months later we sold our home in NY and moved to a small farmhouse on ten acres just outside Mena...Now I want to give my kids the upbringing I had, I am far more likely to be caught in my steel toe boots and jeans than in a suit and tie, and I sold my sports car for a Pickup and Polaris.. We attend church weekly at the small sized white washed chapel, join in PTA meetings and community events.. It's truly heaven on earth..
For sure. I’m a private business owner. I lived in Europe for five years as a young man. I came home worked my way up to a senior manager for a very large bank. I flew and lived in large cities on a regular basis. The high life right? No. I could not wait to leave the farm. Years of deadlines and constant revenue goals got old. Yes. I made a very large income but through the years, something was missing. I went back home for an extended stay because of a funeral. As I got up in the morning and watched the sun come up over the fields and watched the deer in the fields...I became more and more relaxed each day. When it was time to leave I felt....numb. I was still not sure what I was thinking. I drove back in to my home town and yes, had people wave good morning, I went to the local diner and folks were so laid back and kind. One of the old boys said, “ Scott don’t make it so long next time before you visit. The owner also would not take my money when I went to pay, he said, your grandfather was a good man, this one is on me. I drove through the fields to the interstate, went to the regional airport about two hour drive. The whole time trying to understand my mood. I got to the airport took the bus to my gate etc etc. flew to Miami to a corporate meeting and would be following that up with a flight to Phoenix. I actually had to make an adjustment mentally for the traffic as I drove to the meeting. Waiting on lights, traffic, so many people, the noise. I had not noticed it before but it seemed to be louder than normal. It hit me....the gentle quiet, friendly peace was...gone. I wanted to have a cup of coffee on the back porch and watch the sun glow on the corn fields. It gave me an empty feeling inside. I knew at that very moment....I did not want this anymore. What happened to me, while visiting? I went through the meeting and gave the reports and updates on my region as requested. I pulled my boss aside and asked if I could have two minutes. I turned in my resignation on the spot without a care or regret. He said, are you talking to another company? What was the offer? I explained. He said, what are you going to do? I had no idea but I knew it had to be done. I never looked back. I started my own company after six months of contemplation. I bought forty six acres down the road from the old farm. I do not farm, I just wanted my own private piece of heaven. It took five years but I got it up and running. I generate enough revenue to properly pay my team and make as much as I did before
absolutely beautiful dude, so happy for you. I hate big cities, the noise, everyone in a rush, it's just too fast paced for my liking. Love getting out in the country and taking a deep breath of the fresh air and hearing the birds and being able to see the stars at night.
Being in the middle of nowhere in the states doesn't mean no people and no "pub". It's the exact opposite. It's just a selected area and group of people. I have lived all over this country. In small towns and big cities. Small towns will always have my heart.
This is the truth. My graduating class was 62 kids and I had two of the same teachers my father, who was 27 when I was born. You could go drinking on the back roads and the cops would drive up and either take you home or send you home with a phone call depending on the amount consumed. They knew the parents would provide proper punishment. Shoot I would rather sit with them a few hours behind bars if they didn’t tell. Ugh, chores for months after you picked a switch. I have always heard from my friends that visited with my from the military that they’re the nicest and most welcoming people as well. That’s what I’m most proud of.
Oh sorry, I went on a rant and forgot to mention that my town had 5 bars (pubs) and 3 churches. With graduation classes at 62 kids you could imagine how small the town was. It was about 3,000 people when I graduated back in 97.
@@matthewzimmerman5064 I can attest to this, was raised in a small town in Oklahoma. I had 45 in my graduating class, fights where quickly settled with a challenge and a fist fight by the creek, no guns no deaths... Drinking was often done in someone's family pasture, cops would indeed break it up and have those captured call home. I once had my father pick me up after drinking, he drove me home and gave me a lantern and a shovel. Picked a random spot in our pasture and had me dig a hole until around noon, when he then came out to inform me I lost driving privileges for eternity and that I was now to fill in the hole..Last time I ever thought to get behind a wheel even if I had a single beer...
People who've never driven across the U.S. or visited different states and seen the beauty and natural wonders of it, definitely don't know what they're missing.....
ain't that the truth. I went to college in North Dakota (lived in the bay area in California)..so I'd travel there taking different paths every time. Must say my favorite trip was going thru Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Every state was stunning. I live in the middle of Oregon now area called the high desert. Love it here..small town. Trust that I say..I never go to Portland, and would advise anybody to avoid it lol.
As a former locomotive engineer myself I can attest to the fact that I have seen more than my share of “it all”. It’s not a job for everyone and not everyone can do it well, but I was proud of what I did and wish I had never left. I tear up everytime he gets to that part.
There is one thing I love about country music and that is they don't use the boards to change their voices. If you can't sing then you will not make it in country music and so if someone asked a country singer to sing in the middle of a mall with no backup they can do it and do it good.
I understand that song, 100 percent. Where I live, there are no riots, noise and little to no crime. I can take a few days and go to the city and dine, go to a musical or whatever but I happily go home and I can’t hear anything but quiet. Until you have that peace and quiet...you don’t truly understand it. I get my fill from television. My family came from Scotland many generations ago and my uncle says, we have a natural love of the hills and fields in our blood. I am a mid western, Highlander. LOL. You can have my share of the traffic, noise and commotion. I will visit when I get the urge. By the way..finally going to Scotland next year. I can’t wait. My family came from fife. I will visit and try to locate the family’s old place. I will have a few pints and eat some Haggis. Mar sin leat
Some of the most beautiful country. As a truck driver I've seen alot of it. Mountains, plains, deserts. They are all uniquely beautiful. I think everyone needs to take a driving trip somewhere. Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, Colorado.
I love any Jason Aldean song❤️❤️❤️ A flyover state is the non-sexy state, if there is one. Midwest, with a lot of farmland, but beautiful in it’s own way
Not quite, the phrase "flyover states" is meant to be derogatory, as in, they have no value, just a bunch of red neck, broken down, worthless states, in between California, and New York, that's where the phrase "flyover states" originated. Which is hilarious, I have to admit, as those "flyover states" invented most (95%+) of the things we, no, the world, uses in every day life. The most famous thing to be invented in California is ice cream, in contrast, the most famous thing invented where I live was the airplane (and yes, I live in Ohio,lol).
Yeah, the reason country music attracts a certain audience is because the lyrics talk about people and places that get overlooked by most people. There's two ways you can look at this, negative or positive. You can pity them for their "sad" lives, or you can respect their will and determination to have fun and appreciate the beauty of their situation and surroundings. The only reason you would fly to my state (Arkansas) is to meet with corporate people from walmart or tyson, but other than that it's a flyover state I guess. There's really no other state I'd rather live in though (except maybe florida because I love water, doublewides, and gator) and I'll probably happily spend my whole life here.
Indianapolis, Indiana Population 2022 892,656 Not just corn! Indy 500 for one thing, Colts another. Couldn’t count the # of bars or restaurants and not the super high taxes. But please fly over if it’s not for you!
I’m from Indiana too. Like the subtle association he makes between basketball and Indiana in the music video. Grew up playing basketball with cornfields in the background. Would not have it anyway else.
@@major_parking me and my neighborhood buddies played ball darn near every day growing up, and we all had goals at our houses so we could play wherever we were closest 😅 lots of good memories
I live in on a farm in Kansas and definitely in a fly over, drive by, don’t blink you will miss type of place. However, I can’t begin to describe the peace and quiet, big blue skies, golden fields, shooting stars and beautiful kind people. You might enjoy visiting! Great reaction gentlemen! Very enjoyable watching and listening to your reviews.
The "flatbed cowboy stacking U.S. Steel on a 3 day haul" part always makes me think of my dad - who owns/operates his own trucking company. He used to take me on over-the-road trips as a kid and i loved it! Saw so much of this beautiful country and learned so much from being around him.
Funny story. In middle school(12yearsold) my math class got to get on the schools laptop like every other day. My math teachers didn’t like to teach. One day I saw my crush watching this music video in class. a few days later when we got on laptops, I “forgot” to plug my headphones in and played this song. I guess it worked out okay it got him to talk to me about music. I think we even “talked” for a couple months after.
@@WaterKingCrocodoan hahaha we are still friendly to each other. We didn’t last long but we stayed friends up until we graduated highschool. he’s engaged and very happy from what I can tell lol
This song always brings me to tears, even ten years later. I moved from my little hometown in Oklahoma to Alaska at 20 for the military. This song came out when I was up there and I still feel that ‘longing for home’ feeling when I hear it today, even though I’m now back in my hometown. Crazy to think that someone would miss this “flyover state” while they are in The Last Frontier with its mountains and vast, beautiful wilderness. There’s just something about my home that I wouldn’t trade for anywhere else the world ♥️ Thanks for sharing your reaction. Really brought up some memories of an incredible experience in my life.
React to “Dirt Road Anthem” by Jason Aldean Also more country that you might think it’s funny, Brad Paisley Ticks Alcohol Mud on the Tires You need a man around here I’m still a guy -one of my faves
Born and raised in Oklahoma and the sunsets are amazing because we have a lot of clouds and the sun will shine through them making the sky orange, red, and blue.
I know this is the narrative that people from that part of the country like to portray, but the term "flyover states" was literally just a coin termed to describe the middle part of the country that people "fly over" when traveling from coast to coast.
I'm from Oklahoma and I haven't met anyone yet that takes it derogatory. I think people on the coasts probably want it to be taken that way but hey I'll take my fly over state over others any day.
I'll never understand that. Like why do you want to live in a city that size, do you hate money or something? Lol the cost of living is astronomical and for what? To have a reduced level of peace of mind? I live at the end of a mile-long dead-end road. 600 acres of fields to the east and 200 acres of woods and a river valley to the west. The only people that I see are the people who are meant to be here, or people who are lost and wind up turning around, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Planting season right now, the road is pretty busy with tractors and trucks and what have you, but the corn is in!
@@djjazzyjeff1232 preach it brother! I love my small coal mine town here in Southern Illinois (an hour from the Kentucky border) i was born and raised on a 1200 acre farm and currently live on a 280 acre spread and wouldn’t trade it for anything...I don’t have anything against cities i love St Louis but can’t stand the “mind your business” mentality and the anxiety of people is through the roof I’ll take my small town any day! Lol
@@illinoisboy8577 Right on mate, I neglected to mention I’m in rural Minnesota just north of the Iowa border 10 miles. So I’m well away from all their downright nonsense they’re dealing with in the MSP area. You may not have anything against St Louis, but I DO have something against the Twin Cities lol. I thought they were dingy and shabby years ago, especially the downtown area, let alone what’s gone on there the last year or so.
As long as it isn't a suburb and is truly rural that sounds nice. But cities have their own charms like walk-ability, good food, and access to rare items. It's nice
@@greenmachine5600 Yeah it’s truly rural. 1 mile out of the city limits of a town of 3,500 people. And yeah sure cities have their charm, but it’s like Vegas or something where you visit, you don’t LIVE there.
I've only been through west Texas but just that is vast and flat like nothing I have ever seen. As someone who lives in the south east US it is so so different than the hills, mountains, and forests we have here. I can see why people would think it's a vast nothingness but it was truly breathtaking and exciting to me.
There is just something liberating about the vast open skies and awe inspiring about the spectacular sunrises and sunsets and massive storms (God's firework displays).
People who haven't lived in the middle of the country have a bizarrely bad impression of what it's like there. You've got a variety of geography that ranges from low to high, green to yellow, purple to gold, orange to red. You can live in a large city, or a larger city, or a small town, or a mid-size town, or anything in between. You can live, work, and play in a wide range of ways and places there. And even when you're out in the middle of nowhere you're not that far (by the standards of U.S. travel) from world-class medical care and technology. And speaking of Oklahoma (in the video), my parents live in a small town about 45 minutes outside the capital city in an area of slowly rolling hills covered by a variety of crop fields, acreages, grazing fields, and woods as they extend away from a river. Their house, sheds for four horses and equipment, a small cadre of cats, and a few dogs rests on the top of one of those hills, and among the most beautiful places I've ever been.
Not all of Oklahoma is a vast dusty plain. I'm in Northeast OK, or "Green Country" as they call it. Really the beginnings of the Ozark Mtns. It's beautiful right now in early spring. The redbud and dogwood trees are blooming and so are the daffodils.
“Who’d what to live down there in the middle of nowhere?” I DO I DO!! I actually do☺️ South central Oklahoma in a small town with only a blinking light. Wynnewood, Oklahoma. Born and raised. I’m in my garden on our homestead watching the sun set and our American Flag waving as we speak. Also getting attacked by the biggest mosquitoes (pterodactyls) 🙄. Southern girl and damn proud of it 😉🙏❤️
As an American from Tennessee, I’d love to live in a fly over state, jason Aldean speaks volume to me and I wanna be as big as he is in American country music, god willing
You want the best description of a country song? React to David Alan Coe “You Never Even Called Me By My Name” The writer told him it was the “perfect country song, but David thought it needed one more verse which he added. HILARIOUS
The term “mid-west” was because pioneers who traveled or migrated from the east coast (eg. NY, MA) to the west coast anticipated that midway to the west were areas like Illinois, Wisconsin, So. Dakota, that whole area is The Midwest. Even here on the west coast, we still call it the Midwest.
1:10 you're correct Dave. Despite our massive size, close to half of our population lives within a short distance of the east or west coast. There are some large cities in the middle of the country, most notably, my city of Chicago, which is the largest rail, air, and truck(lorry) hub in the World due to its strategic place in North America. There are a handful of other great cities in the middle of the country! Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Believeland, Cincy, Dallas, Houston, Denver, just to name a few! But yeah, as a whole...a huge portion of the middle of the country is basically just fields of corn, soy, soybeans, cows, pigs, or other forms of agriculture.
“Stacking US Steel on a 3 day haul” meaning a trucker driver has a 3 day drive, which can sometimes be overwhelming to think about Bc that’s a lot of time driving, I think England North to South is like a 12-13 hour drive? While almost all cross country trips can take 1-3 days driving in the US
I've been on an airplane once in my life. We were flying from Chicago to California and there was a kid and his parents in front of me who were clearly LA natives on the return flight home. We were out over Iowa when the kid looked out the window and asked his dad why there were large squares on the ground and the dad said it was just farm fields and there was nothing worthwhile to look at yet. I said yeah wait till we get to California and we can see clouds of pot smoke, the mom turned around to yell at me but shut up when she saw my FFA shirt and Wisconsin hat. Moral of the story, don't insult places you know nothing about because you never know who's listening
I live in a small town in the middle of corn fields and I gotta say it's not that great. The scenery is ugly unless you go to the few places where there's some elevation in the terrain. There's not much to do and I have to drive 2 hours to see a decent concert. It might be better if I liked the outdoors more, but even then it's cold almost half the year so you don't want to go outside anyway. Don't get me wrong, there's some positives about living in the middle of nowhere. There's barely any traffic, a relative lack of crime and a really low cost of living. I used to live near a small city in NC and I do miss having more things to do, especially more restaurants to eat at, shorter drives to events, and damn the scenery outside the cities is so much more pleasant. There's hills and not everything has been plowed under for farm land. On the other hand there's traffic, crime and a much higher cost of living.
This is my fav type of reaction. Just some guys listening to good tunes. Would recommend Long Hot Summer Days by The Turnpike Troubadours. Its a hell of a good song.
Every small town in america has a pub, a bank and a gas station (can be optional lol) I use to live in North Dakota for college years. It was automatic to have a bar in every town lol.
I live in northern indiana all my life. What I notice about the both coast is if we're just fly over country and not important but where do those people specially on the west coast think most of the people in entertainment come from. The west coast doesn't have that many talent people raised there. People in fly over country should look up famous people from their state they would be shocked. I love how cheap houses and apartments are here. For what we play for a monthly mortgage on a 3 bdrm 2 bth house with a yard is only half of what apartment rent is in New York.
There are thousands of cities and towns in every state. Only tourist come to New York and LA. , Florida. You have no clue what you're missing by not visiting flyover states. A real American experience.
You haven't lived until you've sat in Jason Aldean's bar and night club in Nashville. And, there is a stretch of highway in Montana where you won't see a person for half the day. And there is no cell service for a hundred miles. You're on your own.
As someone who was born in Stillwater water Oklahoma but had to move to Pennsylvania at a young age because my mother remarried there’s not a day goes by I miss my fly over state one day I’ll be back there for good my heart was born in Oklahoma and that’s were I want my last breath to be
Flyover states aren't all sparsely populated. Don't get that idea. Some cities in flyover states are Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, New Orleans, Atlanta, Cleveland, St. Louis, Chicago, etc.
I live outside the city limits of a rural farmtown in Minnesota, and I wouldn't want it any other way. I'm 20 minutes away from a Walmart in 3 directions and an hour away from 2 decently sized proper cities in 2 directions, so it's not like I'm so far from anything it's inconvenient. Especially with things like Amazon and 2-day Delivery, plus all the absolute bullshit you see on the news lately, outside of maybe family, I can't understand why anyone would live in a city over the size of 200,000 people, I just can't.
A country singer you may not be familiar with, an old style country singer, Hoyt Axton "Della and the Dealer", or "Wild Bull Rider", or "Evangelina".....a cowboy/southwest/Spanish influence.....different than the southern music...
"Flyover states" is not a geographic description so much as a political/cultural description. Coastal, liberal "elites" look down on "flyover states" and their people because in "flyover states", Americans still believe in God and country and hold traditional values and views about America and its history. Coastal, liberal "elites" loathe "flyover states". In return, we loathe them back. The term itself first started popping up in political discussions a decade or two ago and this was very much its usage. They were generally republican states and rural areas in between the coasts and the borders. Democrats voter base in generally on the coasts and in large cities.
flyover states tend to value "virtues" like God, Guns, and country (and honesty), more than the "big bucks" which is what the flyover people equate with the Northeast and west coast
Dave...I could take you to a pub. It’s almost one acre under roof. It’s out near the fields. It’s packed from miles around on weekends. Hard working country folks, oil well workers etc. yep...pick up trucks all over. More than a hundred trucks sitting out there on Saturday. Great music.....you want Guinness? We got it for you lad. American beer years ago...not very good. Now. Excellent. Great Lakes, Sam Adams...you name it. Best steaks for miles around. A big farm near by and a big family, the McCorts a name you would find similar to home. Let me tell you something… If you can find anything prettier than a country girl in tight jeans and cowboy boots… With long pretty hair. Let me know. You could still have your pub and your beer. Most of all… Lots of great people people. You would be at home..away from home. You have visited the wrong places in America my friend.
C'mon Office Blokes do yourself and your viewers a favor and react to Tim McGraw: Humble & Kind (Official Video Only). It's a message we all need at this time! The video is beautiful and has over four million views!
Flyover states is definitely a derogatory term for everything between the east coast states and the west coast states. Those of us from the “flyover states” have leaned into it though. Kind of like, “Yeah, if you’re going to disrespect us, then just fly on over. We’d rather not have you here.”
ehhhhh, in my experience its been far more of a self pity term for people living in the middle of the country. It certainly depends on perspective and circumstances. But often, it feels like a "why won't anyone pay attention to us?!" sort of vibe from some states in the middle of the country.
Well, I wouldn't jinx yourself, if you live in the middle lol. Cause the way its going now, the middle states will become populated a lot quicker, than anyone imagined.
Have you here? That’s not for you to decide
@@robertk2007 Robert, I did not even suggest we would physically bar a-holes from entering our home states. I simply stated that if people don't want to respect us, we'd rather you stay away. That's called an "opinion." Three syllables, I know...sound it out. And the neat thing about opinions, is that we are guaranteed the freedom to have them and express them. It's not for you to supress. I'd go into the first amendment and the constitution, but that gets into four-syllable words, and I don't want to stress you out.
I'm from Oklahoma and I've never felt that it was a derogatory term. Though, when I travel people will ask some of the craziest questions. Example: Do you live in a teepee? and, Do the buffalo's just come up to your teepee so you can feed them? It took us getting an NBA team that's in downtown Oklahoma City for them to realized that it's not out of the ordinary. I love living here... I like that I can have my own property, not have neighbors right next to me... but I'm also a 10 minute drive into downtown. I can actually see one of the high rises from my house.
You gotta be born and raised in one of those "fly over states" to truly understand the real beauty and value of this song.
Yes sir..I was raised in a small town in Oklahoma called Guthrie, couldn't wait to leave. Went to college, married, had a good career..Wife and I took a vacation to SW Arkansas to do some dispersed camping outside of Mena.. Absolutely felt more at peace than I had in years, six months later we sold our home in NY and moved to a small farmhouse on ten acres just outside Mena...Now I want to give my kids the upbringing I had, I am far more likely to be caught in my steel toe boots and jeans than in a suit and tie, and I sold my sports car for a Pickup and Polaris.. We attend church weekly at the small sized white washed chapel, join in PTA meetings and community events.. It's truly heaven on earth..
Yes ma'am
@@colinkillian9265 Ayyy OK native here. Been around the world with the Air Force, and still think Oklahoma is the best place on Earth
For sure. I’m a private business owner. I lived in Europe for five years as a young man. I came home worked my way up to a senior manager for a very large bank. I flew and lived in large cities on a regular basis. The high life right? No. I could not wait to leave the farm. Years of deadlines and constant revenue goals got old. Yes. I made a very large income but through the years, something was missing. I went back home for an extended stay because of a funeral. As I got up in the morning and watched the sun come up over the fields and watched the deer in the fields...I became more and more relaxed each day. When it was time to leave I felt....numb. I was still not sure what I was thinking. I drove back in to my home town and yes, had people wave good morning, I went to the local diner and folks were so laid back and kind. One of the old boys said, “ Scott don’t make it so long next time before you visit. The owner also would not take my money when I went to pay, he said, your grandfather was a good man, this one is on me. I drove through the fields to the interstate, went to the regional airport about two hour drive. The whole time trying to understand my mood. I got to the airport took the bus to my gate etc etc. flew to Miami to a corporate meeting and would be following that up with a flight to Phoenix. I actually had to make an adjustment mentally for the traffic as I drove to the meeting. Waiting on lights, traffic, so many people, the noise. I had not noticed it before but it seemed to be louder than normal. It hit me....the gentle quiet, friendly peace was...gone. I wanted to have a cup of coffee on the back porch and watch the sun glow on the corn fields. It gave me an empty feeling inside. I knew at that very moment....I did not want this anymore. What happened to me, while visiting? I went through the meeting and gave the reports and updates on my region as requested. I pulled my boss aside and asked if I could have two minutes. I turned in my resignation on the spot without a care or regret. He said, are you talking to another company? What was the offer? I explained. He said, what are you going to do? I had no idea but I knew it had to be done. I never looked back. I started my own company after six months of contemplation. I bought forty six acres down the road from the old farm. I do not farm, I just wanted my own private piece of heaven. It took five years but I got it up and running. I generate enough revenue to properly pay my team and make as much as I did before
absolutely beautiful dude, so happy for you. I hate big cities, the noise, everyone in a rush, it's just too fast paced for my liking. Love getting out in the country and taking a deep breath of the fresh air and hearing the birds and being able to see the stars at night.
Congratulations!!!
thanks for sharing. I'm happy you found home.
Being in the middle of nowhere in the states doesn't mean no people and no "pub". It's the exact opposite. It's just a selected area and group of people. I have lived all over this country. In small towns and big cities. Small towns will always have my heart.
I used to live deep in the country in Southern Ohio, now I live 40 min from LA in the deep suburbia of California. I’d rather go back to the country.
This is the truth. My graduating class was 62 kids and I had two of the same teachers my father, who was 27 when I was born. You could go drinking on the back roads and the cops would drive up and either take you home or send you home with a phone call depending on the amount consumed. They knew the parents would provide proper punishment. Shoot I would rather sit with them a few hours behind bars if they didn’t tell. Ugh, chores for months after you picked a switch. I have always heard from my friends that visited with my from the military that they’re the nicest and most welcoming people as well. That’s what I’m most proud of.
Oh sorry, I went on a rant and forgot to mention that my town had 5 bars (pubs) and 3 churches. With graduation classes at 62 kids you could imagine how small the town was. It was about 3,000 people when I graduated back in 97.
@@matthewzimmerman5064 I can attest to this, was raised in a small town in Oklahoma. I had 45 in my graduating class, fights where quickly settled with a challenge and a fist fight by the creek, no guns no deaths... Drinking was often done in someone's family pasture, cops would indeed break it up and have those captured call home. I once had my father pick me up after drinking, he drove me home and gave me a lantern and a shovel. Picked a random spot in our pasture and had me dig a hole until around noon, when he then came out to inform me I lost driving privileges for eternity and that I was now to fill in the hole..Last time I ever thought to get behind a wheel even if I had a single beer...
People who've never driven across the U.S. or visited different states and seen the beauty and natural wonders of it, definitely don't know what they're missing.....
ain't that the truth. I went to college in North Dakota (lived in the bay area in California)..so I'd travel there taking different paths every time. Must say my favorite trip was going thru Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Every state was stunning. I live in the middle of Oregon now area called the high desert. Love it here..small town. Trust that I say..I never go to Portland, and would advise anybody to avoid it lol.
Especially being on a motorcycle where you are more immersed in the surroundings. It’s incredibly peaceful.
As a kid from Indiana, this song felt good because it shouted out not only us but the heart of the midwest. Nobody had done that before
As a former locomotive engineer myself I can attest to the fact that I have seen more than my share of “it all”. It’s not a job for everyone and not everyone can do it well, but I was proud of what I did and wish I had never left. I tear up everytime he gets to that part.
Love the country reactions
There is one thing I love about country music and that is they don't use the boards to change their voices. If you can't sing then you will not make it in country music and so if someone asked a country singer to sing in the middle of a mall with no backup they can do it and do it good.
I understand that song, 100 percent. Where I live, there are no riots, noise and little to no crime. I can take a few days and go to the city and dine, go to a musical or whatever but I happily go home and I can’t hear anything but quiet. Until you have that peace and quiet...you don’t truly understand it. I get my fill from television. My family came from Scotland many generations ago and my uncle says, we have a natural love of the hills and fields in our blood. I am a mid western, Highlander. LOL. You can have my share of the traffic, noise and commotion. I will visit when I get the urge. By the way..finally going to Scotland next year. I can’t wait. My family came from fife. I will visit and try to locate the family’s old place. I will have a few pints and eat some Haggis. Mar sin leat
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Some of the most beautiful country. As a truck driver I've seen alot of it. Mountains, plains, deserts. They are all uniquely beautiful. I think everyone needs to take a driving trip somewhere. Oklahoma, Kansas, Utah, Colorado.
I love any Jason Aldean song❤️❤️❤️
A flyover state is the non-sexy state, if there is one. Midwest, with a lot of farmland, but beautiful in it’s own way
Not quite, the phrase "flyover states" is meant to be derogatory, as in, they have no value, just a bunch of red neck, broken down, worthless states, in between California, and New York, that's where the phrase "flyover states" originated. Which is hilarious, I have to admit, as those "flyover states" invented most (95%+) of the things we, no, the world, uses in every day life. The most famous thing to be invented in California is ice cream, in contrast, the most famous thing invented where I live was the airplane (and yes, I live in Ohio,lol).
@@godiswatching9501 i dunno about you but I feel we just watched Jason Aldean make the term into something we all fly over states people are proud of.
Much love from the US. Love watching you guys
Keep the country music reactions coming. Loving it!
Agree!!!
Yeah, the reason country music attracts a certain audience is because the lyrics talk about people and places that get overlooked by most people. There's two ways you can look at this, negative or positive. You can pity them for their "sad" lives, or you can respect their will and determination to have fun and appreciate the beauty of their situation and surroundings. The only reason you would fly to my state (Arkansas) is to meet with corporate people from walmart or tyson, but other than that it's a flyover state I guess. There's really no other state I'd rather live in though (except maybe florida because I love water, doublewides, and gator) and I'll probably happily spend my whole life here.
Always loved this song, especially since it mentions my homestate of Indiana. There's more than corn in Indiana! Proud Hoosier right here.
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Not just corn! Indy 500 for one thing, Colts another. Couldn’t count the # of bars or restaurants and not the super high taxes. But please fly over if it’s not for you!
I’m from Indiana too. Like the subtle association he makes between basketball and Indiana in the music video. Grew up playing basketball with cornfields in the background. Would not have it anyway else.
@@major_parking me and my neighborhood buddies played ball darn near every day growing up, and we all had goals at our houses so we could play wherever we were closest 😅 lots of good memories
I live in on a farm in Kansas and definitely in a fly over, drive by, don’t blink you will miss type of place. However, I can’t begin to describe the peace and quiet, big blue skies, golden fields, shooting stars and beautiful kind people. You might enjoy visiting! Great reaction gentlemen! Very enjoyable watching and listening to your reviews.
The "flatbed cowboy stacking U.S. Steel on a 3 day haul" part always makes me think of my dad - who owns/operates his own trucking company. He used to take me on over-the-road trips as a kid and i loved it! Saw so much of this beautiful country and learned so much from being around him.
Funny story.
In middle school(12yearsold) my math class got to get on the schools laptop like every other day. My math teachers didn’t like to teach.
One day I saw my crush watching this music video in class. a few days later when we got on laptops, I “forgot” to plug my headphones in and played this song. I guess it worked out okay it got him to talk to me about music. I think we even “talked” for a couple months after.
How’s it going now? That’s a beautiful connection you guys have there now, hopefully you guys are doing amazing right now 🙌❤️
@@WaterKingCrocodoan hahaha we are still friendly to each other. We didn’t last long but we stayed friends up until we graduated highschool. he’s engaged and very happy from what I can tell lol
I think Dave hit the nail on the head when he asked "Do you have to squint to be a country singer" Brilliant Dave.
I live in a flyover the state of Oklahoma. This song always make me proud of my state .
This song always brings me to tears, even ten years later. I moved from my little hometown in Oklahoma to Alaska at 20 for the military. This song came out when I was up there and I still feel that ‘longing for home’ feeling when I hear it today, even though I’m now back in my hometown. Crazy to think that someone would miss this “flyover state” while they are in The Last Frontier with its mountains and vast, beautiful wilderness.
There’s just something about my home that I wouldn’t trade for anywhere else the world ♥️
Thanks for sharing your reaction. Really brought up some memories of an incredible experience in my life.
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As a proud kansan I love living in a flyover state keeps the people closer and the ones that dont like it move away
“Flyover country” is a long time descriptive term supplied to us by the “bi-coastal” set.
Living in one of those flyover states, Indiana, i can say its much more worth living here than flying over them.
Much love from Lawton Oklahoma!!!!
React to “Dirt Road Anthem” by Jason Aldean
Also more country that you might think it’s funny,
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I’m still a guy -one of my faves
The last one is best.😉
Brantley Gilbert wrote that shitty dirt road song
@@smdftb8495 Writing shitty songs is his specialty.
Please don’t react to dirt road anthem. Lmao
"One of them hats???" Those are Cowboy Hats! LOL
Born and raised in Oklahoma and the sunsets are amazing because we have a lot of clouds and the sun will shine through them making the sky orange, red, and blue.
"Flyover states" is a derogatory term for the midwestern farm country.
No it isn't
I know this is the narrative that people from that part of the country like to portray, but the term "flyover states" was literally just a coin termed to describe the middle part of the country that people "fly over" when traveling from coast to coast.
I'm from Oklahoma and I haven't met anyone yet that takes it derogatory. I think people on the coasts probably want it to be taken that way but hey I'll take my fly over state over others any day.
Amarillo Sky is one of my favorites I'm not even that into country.
I love this song so much im SICK of the idea that everyone that doesn’t live in a major city doesn’t matter
I'll never understand that. Like why do you want to live in a city that size, do you hate money or something? Lol the cost of living is astronomical and for what? To have a reduced level of peace of mind? I live at the end of a mile-long dead-end road. 600 acres of fields to the east and 200 acres of woods and a river valley to the west. The only people that I see are the people who are meant to be here, or people who are lost and wind up turning around, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Planting season right now, the road is pretty busy with tractors and trucks and what have you, but the corn is in!
@@djjazzyjeff1232 preach it brother! I love my small coal mine town here in Southern Illinois (an hour from the Kentucky border) i was born and raised on a 1200 acre farm and currently live on a 280 acre spread and wouldn’t trade it for anything...I don’t have anything against cities i love St Louis but can’t stand the “mind your business” mentality and the anxiety of people is through the roof I’ll take my small town any day! Lol
@@illinoisboy8577 Right on mate, I neglected to mention I’m in rural Minnesota just north of the Iowa border 10 miles. So I’m well away from all their downright nonsense they’re dealing with in the MSP area. You may not have anything against St Louis, but I DO have something against the Twin Cities lol. I thought they were dingy and shabby years ago, especially the downtown area, let alone what’s gone on there the last year or so.
As long as it isn't a suburb and is truly rural that sounds nice. But cities have their own charms like walk-ability, good food, and access to rare items. It's nice
@@greenmachine5600 Yeah it’s truly rural. 1 mile out of the city limits of a town of 3,500 people. And yeah sure cities have their charm, but it’s like Vegas or something where you visit, you don’t LIVE there.
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“feathered indians” and “whitehouse road” are good ones
There are over 200 million people in the middle of America looking curiously at the loud people on the coasts who claim to speak for the country.
I've only been through west Texas but just that is vast and flat like nothing I have ever seen. As someone who lives in the south east US it is so so different than the hills, mountains, and forests we have here. I can see why people would think it's a vast nothingness but it was truly breathtaking and exciting to me.
There is just something liberating about the vast open skies and awe inspiring about the spectacular sunrises and sunsets and massive storms (God's firework displays).
I love this song. brings a tear to my eye.
Yes, you got it correct the first time. It means all the states in the midwest like kansas, oklahoma, etc. Just small towns like Aldean said.
I live in Indiana, we love people flying over. Stop and say hi and keep moving. I love my small town.
People who haven't lived in the middle of the country have a bizarrely bad impression of what it's like there. You've got a variety of geography that ranges from low to high, green to yellow, purple to gold, orange to red. You can live in a large city, or a larger city, or a small town, or a mid-size town, or anything in between. You can live, work, and play in a wide range of ways and places there. And even when you're out in the middle of nowhere you're not that far (by the standards of U.S. travel) from world-class medical care and technology. And speaking of Oklahoma (in the video), my parents live in a small town about 45 minutes outside the capital city in an area of slowly rolling hills covered by a variety of crop fields, acreages, grazing fields, and woods as they extend away from a river. Their house, sheds for four horses and equipment, a small cadre of cats, and a few dogs rests on the top of one of those hills, and among the most beautiful places I've ever been.
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Love and respect from Illinois!
Love from Kansas y'all will always be welcome here in this "flyover state"
having been to tons of fly over states the people are amazing and the food oh man!!!
This is off his album, My Kind of Party, that’s the title track.....and WELL worth the listen!
Not all of Oklahoma is a vast dusty plain. I'm in Northeast OK, or "Green Country" as they call it. Really the beginnings of the Ozark Mtns. It's beautiful right now in early spring. The redbud and dogwood trees are blooming and so are the daffodils.
“Who’d what to live down there in the middle of nowhere?” I DO I DO!! I actually do☺️ South central Oklahoma in a small town with only a blinking light. Wynnewood, Oklahoma. Born and raised. I’m in my garden on our homestead watching the sun set and our American Flag waving as we speak. Also getting attacked by the biggest mosquitoes (pterodactyls) 🙄. Southern girl and damn proud of it 😉🙏❤️
“Plant your steaks” hahaha not seeds🤣♥️
His best tune in my opinion!
I can't explain it but that steel guitar captivates me every time. So beautiful
I think you have to be born in the open prairies of Oklahoma and Kansas to really appreciate the land....
I love the office blokes. Found out about you guys during gbb like the beatbboxing.
Good song blokes
As an American from Tennessee, I’d love to live in a fly over state, jason Aldean speaks volume to me and I wanna be as big as he is in American country music, god willing
You want the best description of a country song? React to David Alan Coe “You Never Even Called Me By My Name” The writer told him it was the “perfect country song, but David thought it needed one more verse which he added. HILARIOUS
Been watching you guys for awhile now. From Indiana too. Love this song. Had this CD when it came out. Good request.
my second favorite country artist. love you guys. keep up the good vids
When you play country music backwards. The man gets back his home. His dog and his wife.
Indiana gang here 🙋♂️
Love that steel guitar so much.
(I think it goes "you might wanna plant your stakes")
Love the channel, please do more Stapleton! 😁
The term “mid-west” was because pioneers who traveled or migrated from the east coast (eg. NY, MA) to the west coast anticipated that midway to the west were areas like Illinois, Wisconsin, So. Dakota, that whole area is The Midwest.
Even here on the west coast, we still call it the Midwest.
Flyover states have pubs, we call them "road houses", "honkey tonks" but you'd feel at home.
1:10 you're correct Dave. Despite our massive size, close to half of our population lives within a short distance of the east or west coast. There are some large cities in the middle of the country, most notably, my city of Chicago, which is the largest rail, air, and truck(lorry) hub in the World due to its strategic place in North America. There are a handful of other great cities in the middle of the country! Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Believeland, Cincy, Dallas, Houston, Denver, just to name a few! But yeah, as a whole...a huge portion of the middle of the country is basically just fields of corn, soy, soybeans, cows, pigs, or other forms of agriculture.
indiana represent!
We still have our pubs even in the small towns.
“Stacking US Steel on a 3 day haul” meaning a trucker driver has a 3 day drive, which can sometimes be overwhelming to think about Bc that’s a lot of time driving, I think England North to South is like a 12-13 hour drive? While almost all cross country trips can take 1-3 days driving in the US
I've been on an airplane once in my life. We were flying from Chicago to California and there was a kid and his parents in front of me who were clearly LA natives on the return flight home. We were out over Iowa when the kid looked out the window and asked his dad why there were large squares on the ground and the dad said it was just farm fields and there was nothing worthwhile to look at yet. I said yeah wait till we get to California and we can see clouds of pot smoke, the mom turned around to yell at me but shut up when she saw my FFA shirt and Wisconsin hat. Moral of the story, don't insult places you know nothing about because you never know who's listening
I live in a small town in the middle of corn fields and I gotta say it's not that great. The scenery is ugly unless you go to the few places where there's some elevation in the terrain. There's not much to do and I have to drive 2 hours to see a decent concert. It might be better if I liked the outdoors more, but even then it's cold almost half the year so you don't want to go outside anyway. Don't get me wrong, there's some positives about living in the middle of nowhere. There's barely any traffic, a relative lack of crime and a really low cost of living. I used to live near a small city in NC and I do miss having more things to do, especially more restaurants to eat at, shorter drives to events, and damn the scenery outside the cities is so much more pleasant. There's hills and not everything has been plowed under for farm land. On the other hand there's traffic, crime and a much higher cost of living.
This is my fav type of reaction. Just some guys listening to good tunes. Would recommend Long Hot Summer Days by The Turnpike Troubadours. Its a hell of a good song.
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Every small town in america has a pub, a bank and a gas station (can be optional lol) I use to live in North Dakota for college years. It was automatic to have a bar in every town lol.
I’m from Michigan and we are both an industrial powerhouse as well as an agricultural powerhouse.
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Yaaaay this is one of my all-time favorite songs by him and no one ever reacts to it! Thanks so much for reacting to it!
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I was born and raised in California, I have lived in Oklahoma 20 years and will proudly say I would never go back to California.
I live in northern indiana all my life. What I notice about the both coast is if we're just fly over country and not important but where do those people specially on the west coast think most of the people in entertainment come from. The west coast doesn't have that many talent people raised there.
People in fly over country should look up famous people from their state they would be shocked.
I love how cheap houses and apartments are here. For what we play for a monthly mortgage on a 3 bdrm 2 bth house with a yard is only half of what apartment rent is in New York.
Basically about how everyone from coastal big cities look down on the middle states, where most of their food comes from and they ignore that.
There are thousands of cities and towns in every state. Only tourist come to New York and LA. , Florida. You have no clue what you're missing by not visiting flyover states. A real American experience.
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You haven't lived until you've sat in Jason Aldean's bar and night club in Nashville. And, there is a stretch of highway in Montana where you won't see a person for half the day. And there is no cell service for a hundred miles. You're on your own.
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As someone who was born in Stillwater water Oklahoma but had to move to Pennsylvania at a young age because my mother remarried there’s not a day goes by I miss my fly over state one day I’ll be back there for good my heart was born in Oklahoma and that’s were I want my last breath to be
This makes me want to go back OTR so badly😢
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Pickup Man by Joe Diffie
Flyover states aren't all sparsely populated. Don't get that idea. Some cities in flyover states are Houston, Dallas, Phoenix, New Orleans, Atlanta, Cleveland, St. Louis, Chicago, etc.
I live outside the city limits of a rural farmtown in Minnesota, and I wouldn't want it any other way. I'm 20 minutes away from a Walmart in 3 directions and an hour away from 2 decently sized proper cities in 2 directions, so it's not like I'm so far from anything it's inconvenient. Especially with things like Amazon and 2-day Delivery, plus all the absolute bullshit you see on the news lately, outside of maybe family, I can't understand why anyone would live in a city over the size of 200,000 people, I just can't.
Born and raised in a flyover State wouldn't have it any other way
Jason Aldean definitely isn't the typical country singer mold. Which contributes to why a decent amount of people don't like him. Lol
The squint is due to sun! The coastline states have a lot of fog.
Australia has the real middle of knowhere
plant your stakes...not seeds...haha
check out " Burning it Down" by Jason Aldean - and Tonight Looks Good On You by Jason as well - good stuff
A country singer you may not be familiar with, an old style country singer, Hoyt Axton "Della and the Dealer", or "Wild Bull Rider", or "Evangelina".....a cowboy/southwest/Spanish influence.....different than the southern music...
Do David Allen come never even called me by my name .checks every box for the perfect country song .pickups,drunk,heart break,ect,ect.
"Flyover states" is not a geographic description so much as a political/cultural description. Coastal, liberal "elites" look down on "flyover states" and their people because in "flyover states", Americans still believe in God and country and hold traditional values and views about America and its history. Coastal, liberal "elites" loathe "flyover states". In return, we loathe them back. The term itself first started popping up in political discussions a decade or two ago and this was very much its usage. They were generally republican states and rural areas in between the coasts and the borders. Democrats voter base in generally on the coasts and in large cities.
flyover states tend to value "virtues" like God, Guns, and country (and honesty), more than the "big bucks" which is what the flyover people equate with the Northeast and west coast
Holy shit. Turn off fox news and instead focus your time on learning 3rd grade grammar. Yikes.
@@jeffburdick869 Thank you for reminding me, and civility might be valued more in flyover land
@@oldmachinist9236 1) I wasn't replying to you 2) I live in the midwest
Dave...I could take you to a pub. It’s almost one acre under roof. It’s out near the fields. It’s packed from miles around on weekends. Hard working country folks, oil well workers etc. yep...pick up trucks all over. More than a hundred trucks sitting out there on Saturday. Great music.....you want Guinness? We got it for you lad. American beer years ago...not very good. Now. Excellent. Great Lakes, Sam Adams...you name it. Best steaks for miles around. A big farm near by and a big family, the McCorts a name you would find similar to home. Let me tell you something… If you can find anything prettier than a country girl in tight jeans and cowboy boots… With long pretty hair. Let me know. You could still have your pub and your beer. Most of all… Lots of great people people. You would be at home..away from home. You have visited the wrong places in America my friend.
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C'mon Office Blokes do yourself and your viewers a favor and react to Tim McGraw: Humble & Kind (Official Video Only). It's a message we all need at this time! The video is beautiful and has over four million views!
Indiana born and raised.