Arkansas - The US Explained
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Here in Arkansas the swamps and bayous of the fertile Mississippi Delta meet the country’s largest cluster of mountains between the Rockies and Appalachians. A mostly rural state, it’s home to a number of small cities, some of which have become economically vibrant boomtowns. The Natural State is an all too often overlooked corner of the country, packing a beautiful landscape, important history, kind people, and some really fascinating cities and towns into the Lower 48’s smallest state completely west of the Mississippi.
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How could you not say a single word about our National Treasure The Buffalo National River
As an Ohio native, I’ve always been fascinated by Arkansas. I love nature and the wild so much that it’s always shocked me that Arkansas gets left out of the most beautiful natural geography states conversation a lot.
As someone who lives here.... we are beginning to wish it would stay that way 😂
@@goosenotmaverick1156 💀💀💀 why is that? Ppl swear Ohio has so much and I’m always like where lol
@SS4Luxray so the population in my area quits exploding. I live in NWA and it's insane how many people are flowing into here.
@@SS4Luxray Tbh the rest of Ameria is kind of insane. We'd rather not, thanks, you know?
@@goosenotmaverick1156 Same here, Fayetteville is not what it once was and neither are the housing prices sadly
I’ve been waiting FOREVER for this video. As an Arkansan, I approve. Well done, sir!
My best friend has lived in Arkansas since Middle School. I visited NWA and it’s so beautiful. If you see this Keiko, te quiero mucho mi amiga mejor ❤
NWA is not normal Arkansas.
Yeah NWA is like the NYC of New York state. NWA is very nice, but most of Arkansas is not like NWA. Most of Arkansas feels and smells like an armpit.
We have been to Arkansas many times and it is gorgeous. Especially driving up I-49 into NW Arkansas and the Ozarks.
Arkansas It definitely a hidden gem! I'm from Texas we show Arkansas a lot of love! Beautiful state!
Texas is basically like our big brother 😂
Gotta love the Texans. Without them Fayetteville would be a ghost town 😂
@@BobyChanMan Lol I've always said Fayetteville is a place for Texas refugees 😄
Thanks. But, I have to tell you. As an Arkansan I'm genetically required to make fun of Texas.
@@timesthree5757 Lol we used make fun of Arkansas just like we did Oklahoma but we love you guys at the end of the day
As an Arkansan, this video is fantastic. I've never seen another youtuber explain the state as accurately as you have.
Yep. Great job other than a couple of population errors (e.g. LR metro population is now close to 800k and includes Conway).
I watch a lot of Arkansas police pursuit videos and I think I've seen almost every corner of the state. It's beautiful with diverse landscapes. The mountains, hills, farmland, bottom land, rivers and lakes. It's much like Georgia, just with fewer people.
And I love your governor.
Definitely one of the best ones I’ve seen. I’m ready for someone from the state to do one so it can get to the nitty gritty of it all.
@@boroblueyes The Uncredible Huck 🤢 Yuck 🤮
@@boroblueyesyou’re one of few
"The creatively named island, #20" made me burst out laughing😅 I love that this is a series❤
That's near Dyersburg!
MICHIGAN is up next in The US Explained and I'm really excited! I've been there, but I still need some help! Michiganders, it's your time to shine! Please reply to fill me in on what I need to know about your home state, such as unique food, traditions, places, some fun facts and local dialects and pronunciations! I can't promise everything will make it into the video, but I will try my best, and I'm looking forward to getting started!
You gotta include how they call Liquor Stores “Party Stores”
FINALLY!!!! LOL
Detroit hosted a formula one grand prix from 1982-1988. Then CART(championship auto racing teams) took over the event, moving from downtown detroit to belle isle in 1992, where it stayed until 2001. It would return for two years in 2007 with the indycar series after it and champ car(successor of CART) merged. It returned again in 2012 as a double header until 2021, excluding the cancelled 2020 edition. It became a single race again in 2022, before returning downtown in 2023, where it is today.
@@Steveofthejungle8 and coney islands
Isn't Michigan the largest state by land area east of the Mississippi?
It may not be the best state but personally im proud of how much its grown recently, and i find this state absolutely beautiful. Fort Smith will always be my home.
Northside or Southside?
This videos is amazing. As an Arkansan it’s important to note that poverty is not as bad as it sounds when you find out Arkansas has the highest or second highest (depending on who you look) at buying power in the country
As someone that lives on the Ouachita River on the boarder of Louisiana and Arkansas, I have to give a big 👏👏👏 for pronouncing it correctly! A hard feat for most that are not from around here 😂
I'm from Huttig myself. Small world.
What i love about the US is just how geographically diverse and culturally diverse the country is. I love learning about the awesome places to visit in each state and the different cultural traditions that are prevalent in each state. Cant wait to learn about Michigan
I love your dedication traveling around North America to get first-hand knowledge and content for your videos.
don’t tell anybody about us!! As an Arkansan we are very territorial and want to keep the state as natural and just how it is now or better! We are scared of people from other states if they bring along the same energy from their previous one. Enjoy our natural state. Just PLEASE leave it natural and PLEASE don’t try to change the state we have tried to protect so much. And to those that move here soon or in the future, help us protect this sacred place from people with ill intentions and corporate America- signed concerned AR citizen
I second that.
Arkansas is the only state I have been to that can compete with the beauty of my native Washington.
It's my home state, and I recently moved back. While obviously it's not perfect, I'm glad to be here. Great video
No state is perfect. Each one has awesome aspects and negative aspects. I've always enjoyed Arkansas every time I've been there ✌️😃
Welcome back home,we missed ya🎉
New US Explained is always the best notification to come home to
Thank you for the respect of a thorough researched on Arkansas. Blessings to you and your brother.
Dude, my wife would do anything to live a life similar to yours! She wants to travel and camp all over the country and eventually the world. We've been to several states so far, including Arkansas last year! We went to the Quachita mountains area and it was really NICE. People are so kind there! If your from a city like me and my wife and daughter (New Orleans area) you really are taken aback by people being so kind to strangers but I found that I really liked the people there. And the landscapes and mountains were incredible! So much beauty thats hardly been touched by man. Anyways, im enjoying the presentations and I thank you for your hard work getting them out to us!
Crowley's ridge formed from the New Madrid fault line. An earthquake powerful enough to make a huge section of the Mississippi River stop, turn, and flow back against itself.
He forgot to mention Rodger Bumpass (voice actor of Squidward) Who was born in Little Rock and attended ASU in Jonesboro.
He is mentioned at 1:04:41
Crank the intro music louder moving forward. Too humble on this one. It's iconic. I live for the intro.
Oh hell yeah dropping everything for the next hour and nine minutes
Finally, HE’S BACK
I am really glad I came across this channel and video series it checks off all the boxes for a geography, history, and culture nerd but it really shows me how much I really don't know about my own country. Lol I honestly might visit all 50 states because of this video series 😂
born and work in fort smith i currently live in Oklahoma just a few min from fort smith. i love this area and its verry beautiful and fort smiths history is very interesting and fun to learn about!
I've been living in Arkansas my entire life, so the moment it gets mentioned I go nuts. Pretty much the entire video I was like "YES THAT'S SO TRUE FINALLY WE GET ATTENTION!". It was also very informative, as most the history stuff (specifically the Arkansas Post) I haven't been refreshed about since elementary school.
I'd like to mention the dry county part. Until watching this video, I *genuinely* didn't know that dry counties weren't a common thing. I thought it was like that in every state where every few counties are dry
My last school refresher about the original Capitol was in arkansas history in Jr High
@@goosenotmaverick1156 I remember taking Arkansas history in jr high too, I just don't remember almost the entirety of my jr high years
@aerodixx777 I know what you mean. 🤣
a stellar episode, very interesting. Thanks for the sneak peek on the upcoming episodes from all your travels. Great work 👍 keep it up.
You failed to mention the university of Arkansas pine bluff, UAPB, one of the great HBCUs in the country.
They got destroyed last night lol
I just retired in Dallas and I’m building a house in Arkansas. I can’t wait!
Lucky you ! You won’t be bored !!! Love it. I’d do something similar if I could !
Fantastic video! I visited Arkansas last year (I'm from Scotland) and would love to go again and see more of the state.
As a Kansan, we pronounce the Arkansas river like the state. But if you ask some older people from western Kansas you will indeed hear them call it Ar-Kansas. It seems as if it’s a dying dialect
Edit: Can’t wait for the Kansas video! Good luck finding something to talk about lol
I love that you went out and filmed these areas yourself for the most part it will be well worth the time taken for the video quality!
As a native Arkansan who lives in SE AR I’ve been patiently waiting for this video. I would also argue much of Arkansas is apart of the Deep South.
Enjoyed the video. Definitely too in the weeds for your video, but much of the delta was old growth forrest that got clearcut to make way for agriculture. This logging of the delta extended well into the 20th century
Thank-you for the kind words about my hometown, Hot Springs. I highly recommend growing up in a National Park. Good times for all because everyone benefited from tourism.
Love the series
Arkansas looks amazing. I'm from central and SE Ohio. This video alone has me wanting to seriously checkout moving down there.
Holy heck, gang! A new US explained just dropped!
I think it's great that you are archiving your journey through the united States. We can all live vicariously through your uploads. Keep up the great work!!
Oh thank Goodness I see your video pop up when I got back home.
Delaware just sitting in the corner with its arms crossed like "You only spent 14 minutes on me and what's so great about ARKanSAS?"
As a UDel grad who grew up in AR... It's all about the geography. There's not much to Delaware in comparison. Arkansas is one of the most geographically diverse states in the Union.
He could always do a reboot when he wraps up the series. I was thinking he could do a series follow up to this: The US Explained County Edition, a new video on each of the nations approx 3100 counties. In his Maine video, he did spend quite a bit of time on the most northern county in that state. That county deserves its own video.
I goto hot springs every year a couple times, i love the place... Its laid back and my child loves it
Talimena biway/drive should be made a national park like they did with skyline drive/Shenandoah in Virginia.
best series on YT
I'm so excited for this!
Wow !! This guy really did his research without making it boring !!! A lot I didn’t know. I’ve always been attracted to this state .. mainly wondering why housing is so cheap.
May as well go see for myself now that I know where to go !!!
Thanks for the video and great job !!! 💯👍
Very cool video! Love how in depth you go, you even mentioned the reason my aunt from Hawaii moved here with some of her family, tyson lol. I didn't know there were more than just her family, I should ask her and her mom about that next time I visit Hawaii. That detail felt so specific to me it was surreal hearing you talk about it in a video about where I'm from.
Great place to live if you like mountain biking and hiking! No state is perfect but there's enough wonderful qualities here for me. Calling it a hidden gem is quite poetic considering the relationship with diamonds.
Sam Walton started in Newport Arkansas running a 5 and 10 called a Ben Franklin before he went to Bentonville
And undercutting/circumventing his supply chain to make more money before he even came to Bentonville, the way I understand.
It's been the way it is from day 1. Everyone pretending like it wasn't just a bit shady to begin with has the local rose shaded lenses lol
@@goosenotmaverick1156 this in the 50s in tiny Newport Arkansas. Not sure he was circumventing the whatever back then bro 🙂
@@michaelhall7546 I meant the supply chain he was contractually obligated to use, per Ben Franklin. It wasn't about the local laws but the policies of the franchise he ran.
@@michaelhall7546 do your research before you try to tell me I'm wrong, bro.
Well done!!
I really enjoy your videos. I’m looking forward to seeing your original footage!
Beautiful job! Would love to see Utah and Idaho.
He will cover them eventually. It may be just a bit though 😂
The ozarks hold my heart.
you missed americas !st national river!!!! The buffalo river!!
very interesting. thanks so much!
Moffett is oklahoma. It's across the bridge in downtown fort smith
Arkansas got bullied by a single missouri man and lost a bit of its land.
Just a wealthy man that made the wrong choice if you ask me lol
Dude, Arkansas is the place to be. We got guns, we’re next to big bro Texas, we’re a strong people
I love these Ouachita mountains
10:25 and Case Oh is at least 200,000 of them
Correction from a native: I would DEFINITELY call the northern part „temperate“. subtropical does not get 14 degrees in winter nights.
Born in New Orleans 1960 moved to Mobile in 1962 now in 2024 trying to sell out and move to Arkansas a place I only been 3 times my daughter and grandaughter live there and my housw is falling down and I am too I am going to with the good lords help live my last chapter there ❤ please pray for me 😊
Godspeed Ronald, enjoy Arkansas, incredible place to live.
@@willrobvisuals thanks. Excited and also a little scared but looking forward to the next chapter in my life
My favorite geography fact about Arkansas is that you can theoretically travel directly south into every state it borders.
Your video is excellent, but for consistency, you should use the metro population figures for *all* the cities you compare. For instance, you applied metro area data to cities like Conway and those in Northwest Arkansas, but for Jonesboro, you cited only the city population. You mentioned that Jonesboro, including its suburbs, totals 73,000 people, which is inaccurate. Jonesboro alone has over 10,000 more people than that, and when including its surrounding suburbs, the population exceeds 135,000.
My great great uncle played fiddle, even got offered to travel with Bob Wills at one point, but stayed to take care of his family.
My family came over in the first decade of the 1900s and landed in arkansas within a decade or so.
Look him up if you're bored. Frankie Kelly.
You need a better audio setup - will turn away some folks. Not trying to be mean, great content hope you keep making videos. Have a nice day!
sooo excited for michigan. u should cover holland, michigan, and its history with the wizard of oz
Excellent video! Nice work.
a new US explained dropped woo!
As a life long Arkansas all i ask if you come to our state especially the buffalo please only take pictures and leave only footprints . God bless 😊
NEXT EPISODE: We're back to the Midwest!
Me, a native Texan, waitin’ patiently for a Texas: The US Explained video
Please stop moving to nwa it's way over crowded now our roads can't handle all the traffic
Oh agreed! Its become much less fantastic when everyone keeps coming!
It's honestly ruining the feel of NWA, isn't it...
@goosenotmaverick1156 Yep. And most of them are from big cities and they want to turn us into the places they come from. Seems kindof counterintuitive.
Arkansas should really build a new city In the North East So people move there instead of NWA
@@MarshallTheUnknownthey already have Jonesboro in the northeast that’s been booming as much as NWA (I actually live in Jonesboro btw)
I love this series man keep going lol
Forgot to mention Mena and all of the CIA shenanigans there. Lol
Seriously great video! 👍
Northwest arkansas has a collective population of above 500k btw
And little rock metro is 750k
I’m originally from fort smith!
You are truly a fort smith resident of all time.
At 1:06:53, you show the counties who voted for Bill Clinton for President, that one that didn't vote for him in North Central Arkansas, Searcy County, has only voted for two democrats presidents since 1860. Jimmy Carter the first time and Harry Truman. No other time did they vote a Democrat president. It was the epicenter of the Arkansas Peace Society resistance. My Great Grandfather's older half-brothers used that organization as a cover while they prepared a militia to join up with 2nd Arkansas Union Calvary in Southern Missouri which was a short lived unit involved in Wilson's Creek battle at Springfield MO, and Elk's Horn Tavern battle in N.W. Arkansas.
Wow You! That's great.
Great video, but as a citizen it kept bugging me to hear the mis-pronunciation of "Arkansans", I think you're saying "Arkansawans". But other than that, very informative.
Shhhhhh!!!!!!!! Stop telling people how awesome… I mean how awful our state is!!!!!! Seriously. Our state sucks! There’s nothing here and no reason to move here, especially if you’re from California.
Why should they change the fourth star? It was a part of the confederacy and the confederacy was a country regardless of your opinion of the confederacy. It doesn’t change the facts.
Why should it be on their flag? What’s the point?
@@zach2382 Hiding history is the worst. We are only a hop and a skip from what the Soviets did and that turned out well
@@tuckerhiggins4336 how is that hidden history?
Aye man not gonna lie. How have you not covered West Virginia yet? Its more southern than Maryland, as much a part of the rust belt as the rest you mentioned, and also part of the Ohio River valley.
You didn’t watch the video where you clearly pointed out. He’s going in state board order with the numbers labeled on the map and Arkansas was the halfway point of the 50 states
New!
Important to add Arkansas state laws beginning with the Ag-Gag Law that made it possible to add laws no other state has or wants. More importantly is current Climate Data warnings for survival by IPCC, EPA, NOAA, UMFCCC, NASA and all other gov agencies on Arkansas and surrounding southern states, that show Arkansas still is the only state without any plans, AR nicknamed by America "the Suicide State" with Arkansas' Climate Deadline being this past August 1, 2024, which Governor Sanders and.the previous governor never complied to any phasing out or the ending of anything environmental related, having more climate disasters than other states, such as houses sinking in AR from the weekly Earth Quakes caused by too many power plant drillings than anywhere in world, resulting in having Orders today by the International Court Justice to stop advertising Fosil Fuel companies to open there being a "Natural State" as an excuse that it's okay to, while it's the top contributer to the record breaking increasing Heat levels by all the gas emissions AR puts into the air water land resulting in Arkansans having even shorter Life-Spans than before, with increasing every month of more carbon dioxide from all the Arkansas' Exon Oil drilling Companies, electric and plastic toxic power plants, etc. Important for families to check before moving to Arkansas with Gov Agencies such data as the ratings for Life-Spans which are shortest in country including illlnesses, and ratings of safety for children are lowest, more "Hate Laws" resulting a large percentage of children incarcerated, the worldwide data by UN rates Arkansas "Worst region in world to raise children." From housing to education, jobs to food and crop industries, etc, current data shows the quality of living, health and safety are lowest in country.
What, no UAPB. Just a concerned Pine Bluffian 🤔
Great video. Learned some great information. Loved the objective history. One thing, everyone here says Ar-KAN-san, not Ar-kan-SAW-an, though I personally prefer Arkansawyer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Americana Corporation? I've lived here for all of my 52 years and had to google them to find out who they are. You could have gone with Stephens Inc, Acxiom Corp, UAMS, Simmons Foods, Dillard's, or many others... Never heard of them, and they don't even appear in the list of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission's Top 100 list.
"...smallest state completely west of the Mississippi." 0:31 🤓 ummm acktually, have you heard of Hawaii?
Uh he added the context of contiguous US. Pretty sure he literally mentioned excluding Hawaii
@@goosenotmaverick1156 yeah he did way further into the video
@@Mucho-Mango- a few seconds further
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I grew up in the Arkansas delta. Let me tell you, it’s very hot, humid, poor, and conservative. It’s not great
Can you do the UP separate from michigan? Lake superior for statehood!!! No more hill billys allowed
What are you even talking about?
@@zach2382 UP for statehood!
@@PavelDatsyuk-ui4qv Are you a Upper
Arkensaw.
ARKANSAS EXPLAIN YOURSELF
oh wait Carter is explaining
I can’t believe you took Hope off the map. Shame you ruined an otherwise good video.
Please stop moving here
Stop playing and give us Texas already!!!
He is going in statehood order
@@zach2382 I am impatient. 😂
I don't think Soo bro.
Wake Up from dream
I love Arkansas. From UK.
Britain the motherland always beloved.
We have a lot of people come from the UK to Norwest Arkansas for hiking and sightseeing. Come on down!
Respect to the Mother country, as always 🇺🇲🤝🇬🇧
ah man I grew up in west Arkansas in the Ouachitas I may not live there now but ill never forget how beautiful the state is and I do get a little homesick. great video Arkansas history is so interesting