Why So Few Americans Live Along The Mississippi River, Especially In The South

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  • @silverjohn6037
    @silverjohn6037 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +361

    Another historical consideration along the southern Mississippi would have been the prevalence of mosquito born diseases like malaria, Yellow Fever, etc. People didn't really understand why they were more likely to get sick in those areas but did understand that it was unhealthy land.

    • @JesusFriedChrist
      @JesusFriedChrist 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      “Yellow Fever” is an outdated term.
      We say “Asian American Fever” now.

    • @kam2894
      @kam2894 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@JesusFriedChrist lmao

    • @ReubyD118
      @ReubyD118 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JesusFriedChrist Racist comment be racist... it's called that cuz you go jaundice and turn yellow...

    • @sterlingpratt5802
      @sterlingpratt5802 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Yeah. MS Delta native here. You couldn’t even really settle the Delta until the 20th century, and none of the towns really got going until after the Civil War. Today, the whole area is a massive feat of engineering with dams, levees, and artificial banks to try and contain the flow.

    • @jKLa
      @jKLa 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      According to this video, Memphis, Tennessee with a metro population oround 1.3 miillion and close to 600,000 in the city itself, and New Orleans with a 1.2 million metro are NOT a major US cities...

  • @ElicBehexan
    @ElicBehexan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +523

    I saw this topic and said, to myself since nobody else is here, 'Easy, flooding."

    • @GothBatty
      @GothBatty 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      It’s not that bad there’s no basements you build according to the land.

    • @ElicBehexan
      @ElicBehexan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@GothBatty well, we don't normally have basements where I'm from, but it isn't because of flooding... it is because it costs too much to excavate through the limestone that is between 6 inches to 3 feet below the ground level in most of town. Not by the river, but until they finally succeeded in taming it, flooding was a bit of a problem. Oh, and for most of the 7 years between 2 and 9 I lived in a house where there had only been a couple of inches until they came in and put down 4 inches of top soil.

    • @paulleavitt9550
      @paulleavitt9550 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      I’m no expert on this topic but I immediately thought the area surrounding the Mississippi River is largely a flood plain

    • @chrisp308
      @chrisp308 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It's because of the new Madrid earthquakes

    • @324bear
      @324bear 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ElicBehexan I would like a little more detail... I don't need your address, just the state... In my mind limestone is more of a northern area... But I'm not a geologist and I didn't stay in a Holiday Inn last night 🤣😂

  • @daveharrison84
    @daveharrison84 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +402

    Americans compared it to the Nile because it's a long river that supports an entire country. That's why it has cities named Memphis and Cairo.

    • @ghost21501
      @ghost21501 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      You just blew my mind. I never put 2 and 2 together.

    • @I_Like_Remote_83
      @I_Like_Remote_83 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      my brain Right now 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

    • @UseByDate-Expired
      @UseByDate-Expired 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      Southern Illinois is known as Little Egypt

    • @dakf660
      @dakf660 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Never knew that

    • @andrewburcham4826
      @andrewburcham4826 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      That’s not entirely accurate. Southern Illinois is called “Little Egypt,” because the joining of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers closely resembles the Nile delta. The names of the cities, then grew from that.

  • @hgbugalou
    @hgbugalou 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

    As someone who lives near Memphis I don't have to even watch to tell you its flooding. The river goes above its flood plain down here almost every single year, sometimes more than once. Its the levee system and flood control reservoirs of tributaries the corp of engineers maintains that keeps it from being a major disaster every year. That said in 2011 it came just a couple of feet from over topping those levees. I was there at ground zero for work and it was some pretty wild scenes. I uploaded a video of it on here.

    • @perfectallycromulent
      @perfectallycromulent 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers have worse flooding than the MIssissippi, and there are still hundreds of millions of people living along them.

    • @lamontjohnson5810
      @lamontjohnson5810 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah I don't live anywhere near the Mississippi and not even in a state that borders it, but even I knew that it was due to flooding (and the unpredictable shifting of the river channel).

    • @areguapiri
      @areguapiri 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Rising waters is not a "disaster". It's a natural, regular occurrence.

    • @henrydemonfreid1985
      @henrydemonfreid1985 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@areguapiri thank you. it's humans who are the disaster!

    • @UserName-ts3sp
      @UserName-ts3sp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@areguapirii mean it can lead to serious damages and death, so yeah flooding can absolutely be a disaster.

  • @dennisenright9347
    @dennisenright9347 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +136

    The city of Winnipeg is built at the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers. The area was a meeting place for Native populations for thousands of years, but they never built a permanent city there. When European explorers showed up, they asked what the forty foot high wooden pole that had been erected there meant. The Indians told them that marked the height of spring flooding in bad years, and that was the reason that there was no permanent Native settlement there. Did European settlers listen? No. That is the reason that there is a flood diversion ditch east of the city that required more earthmoving than the Panama canal.

    • @ytgytgy
      @ytgytgy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Totally same in Fargo, also dead in the middle of the red river floodplain. Way to go colonizers!

    • @tomthx5804
      @tomthx5804 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why the hell should they listen to savages who were living in the stone age?. Obviously people settled the Winnipeg area quite successfully. They knew how to control rivers. What a goof you are.

    • @blobblorg6541
      @blobblorg6541 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I think it actually moved less cubic meters of earth than the Panama Canal, but more than the Suez Canal. This was the second largest earthmoving project in modern human history.

    • @noahstevens1886
      @noahstevens1886 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@blobblorg6541 I appreciate that you qualified modern history. Ancient people did all kinds of stuff.

    • @virginiaoflaherty2983
      @virginiaoflaherty2983 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      White men, bless their hearts.

  • @Glenintheden
    @Glenintheden 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

    The advantage Minneapolis and St Paul and surrounding suburbs have is that, while they do have issues with regular flooding, the vast majority of their population and businesses exist high atop bluffs over the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers. Those bluffs were carved out by massive flooding at the end of the last ice age.

    • @lewis7315
      @lewis7315 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      No Ice Age, Just Noah's flood :)>

    • @ilikespaghetti4458
      @ilikespaghetti4458 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@lewis7315 ...

    • @MrSatoshi-xn2dn
      @MrSatoshi-xn2dn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lewis7315 melt water pulse 1B

    • @ivywoodxrecords
      @ivywoodxrecords 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That, is overly simplistic, and really only South-West Minneapolis and St. Paul proper can say that is true. Ok maybe Burnsville parts of Bloomington and definitely Edina and alright there are southern suburbs over by St Paul that yes are on high ground. But most of the west suburbs are on a rolling plain, the north suburbs the same and east toward White Bear Lake/Oakdale are the same. Maybe 25% - 35% of the area is as you say the rest is glaciated or at least north of the river and to the west.

    • @ivywoodxrecords
      @ivywoodxrecords 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      For example, Maple Grove. Minnetonka. Anoka. Not until you get down towards Shakopee on that side do you hit any real elevation changes that you could call bluffs, and really the features you are talking about are in and around south St Paul and as I said Eagan/Edina/Ft Snelling

  • @ericpierce3660
    @ericpierce3660 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +138

    You'd think Cairo, Illinois would be pronounced Kai-roh like you did, but the locals actually pronounce it Kay-roh.

    • @deafleppard1812
      @deafleppard1812 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same with Cairo New York

    • @deafleppard1812
      @deafleppard1812 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      We also have Milan New York. We pronounce it as “my lan” with the A sounding like an A in Anne.

    • @matthewclark5879
      @matthewclark5879 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Geoff rarely does homework on a local scale

    • @JTA1961
      @JTA1961 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Syruptishisly

    • @TheLemon333
      @TheLemon333 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Mark Twain's hometown

  • @GetThemLyrics
    @GetThemLyrics 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    I work on a towboat. We regularly travel the lower Mississippi River. This man is correct about the population. Basically nothing but trees, trees, and more trees.

    • @ericolens3
      @ericolens3 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      you forgot to mention the trees.

    • @tinyfrog919
      @tinyfrog919 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ericolens3 😂

    • @jamesalexander5623
      @jamesalexander5623 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Tree-mendous Comment!

    • @areguapiri
      @areguapiri 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Factories, factories, and factories. Dams, dams, and dams.

    • @GetThemLyrics
      @GetThemLyrics 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There are no Dams on the Lower. But there are a few docks that we stop at to load and unload product.@@areguapiri

  • @krisstarring
    @krisstarring 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

    I grew up in Memphis. I'm telling you, the Lower Mississippi area is one of the most deprived areas of the country. But aside from the poverty and infamous crime that results from said poverty, it also gets really hot in the summer thanks to the humidity being near a large river carrying most of the rainfall in North America in the South. And the mosquitos are terrible are a result. Ugh. But Memphis isn't so far south so it also gets really cold and breezy in the wintertime thanks to the flat landscape which is also made worse by the humidity. Wet cold is worse than dry cold. Oh, and the spring time, it's tornado season because it's smack dab in middle America, aka Tornado Alley. It's just not a pleasant place to live. I have a lot of good memories growing up there, but I have to admit it. it's a challenging place to live. No wonder the blues found a home there. Memphis was at least blessed with a bluff (hence its nickname the "Bluff City") that shielded it from flooding unlike other cities on the Lower Mississippi like Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
    Great video though. Also, just a note, Cairo, Illinois isn't pronounced like the city in Egypt, it is "CAY-ro." ;-) Cairo, IL is an interesting town historically being at the intersection of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers but a very sad place as well. It's virtually a ghost town now but declined over the decreasing importance of river transportation vs. the railroad and highways plus racial tensions and strife.

    • @JTA1961
      @JTA1961 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Excellent statement regarding the blues

    • @James-bs8bd
      @James-bs8bd 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Facts. Let them know

    • @GeraldM_inNC
      @GeraldM_inNC 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      The Confederates didn't take the Union's attempt to conquer Vicksburg seriously. They assumed the Union army would not be able to deal with the heat, humidity and malaria.

    • @UnicornDreamsPastelSkies
      @UnicornDreamsPastelSkies 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Dry cold may seem better, until one realizes how much their skin suffers if they don't stay on top of moisturizing their skin and humidifying the air. The Rocky Mountains suffer the greatest from this phenoma thanks to this plus high elevation.

    • @manifeststation5354
      @manifeststation5354 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No one is suffering in Colorado compared to Mississippi be foreal 😂

  • @pillarwatch
    @pillarwatch 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

    Little known fact, the widest navigable part of the Mississippi River is Lake Pepin at two miles wide.

    • @dennislodermeier1741
      @dennislodermeier1741 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      thanks, Cliffy

    • @user-dc1dr9kr8x
      @user-dc1dr9kr8x 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@dennislodermeier1741who are 3 people who have never been in my mother's kitchen

    • @capps2015
      @capps2015 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Its a mile wide plus from Cairo down.

  • @drewo6388
    @drewo6388 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    Just a note: Cairo, Illinois is actually pronounced like "Cay-roh." I always got it wrong too (pronouncing it like Cairo, Egypt) until a local told me how they pronounced it in the region.

    • @GenericUsername1388
      @GenericUsername1388 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Here in South Africa we have a town called Alabama (It was named after CSS Alabama, a War Vessel from the US) but it's pronounced totally different to the state. My friend, a local from there told me it's pronounced "Ala-baah-ma" 😂

  • @bemhibbits4157
    @bemhibbits4157 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I grew up in Minneapolis and live in St Paul today. Essentially right on the Ole Miss near downtown. I love everything the river brings and how our metro area makes use of it.

  • @shoehorse6657
    @shoehorse6657 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Could you do a video on the New Madrid earthquake zone? I’ve read it affected the Mississippi river’s course. You do such great videos that it would be interesting to get your take on that topic!

  • @nothat0therguy992
    @nothat0therguy992 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    The Mississippi is hard to tame, she takes what she wants. I recall seeing at least a few then boomtown getting devastated by flooding, with Cairo being one of the best known examples of that

    • @missourimongoose8858
      @missourimongoose8858 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I didn't know that but I drove through Cairo a few weeks ago and man it looks like 2 out of 3 buildings there are abandoned

    • @nothat0therguy992
      @nothat0therguy992 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@missourimongoose8858 Sad thing is Flooding was just the start of Cairo's problems, it's truly one of the most unlucky cities in America. Between Flooding, the reduction of shipping by water, getting bypassed by the highway system, de-industrialization, white flight and general isolation Cairo has faced problem after problem creating such a bleak outlook for the town

  • @stakknation123
    @stakknation123 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    My first thought was aren't St.Lous, Memphis and New Orleans fairly large cities? Maybe he means just south of Memphis

    • @jonnyfendi2003
      @jonnyfendi2003 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes and high crime rates.

    • @glennrishton5679
      @glennrishton5679 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Technically the river is divided into two areas The Upper Mississippi begins at Cairo IL going to the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota. The Lower River begins at Cairo and down river to the Head of the Passes just below Venice LA. Then there is the Southwest Pass some 21.8 miles to the Gulf which is transited by ships and vessels with a deeper draft.
      So after my long answer St Louis is part of the northers area.

    • @chuckbarnes225
      @chuckbarnes225 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @stakknation123 New Orleans, far from a large city, very, very small city population is 300 thousand people. I'm just saying

  • @andz1995
    @andz1995 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    I think it’d be cool to see a video on why the Phoenix metro has grown to be so much larger than Tucson or Las Vegas

    • @highway2heaven91
      @highway2heaven91 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why did it grow larger? That’s a good question.

    • @perfectallycromulent
      @perfectallycromulent 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      only one of those cities is the capital of a state that's easy to move to from LA.

    • @really...8359
      @really...8359 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      vegas for a long time was only hospitality - which doesn’t pay the greatest. and also until recently people didn’t associate vegas with raising a family, they associated it with crime and casinos - not until about the 90s did people start hearing of summerlin, henderson, and spring valley as “great suburbs”
      tucson is a college town, and has the same vibe as a place like jackson mississippi- it’s the west coast version of a southern city. it’s hot, not much to do.
      phoenix - financial/tech hub, hub for several airlines, it pitched itself to snowbirds
      the same can be said about why most texas cities are booming but el paso hasn’t moved an inch. . .

    • @PhatRobsOils
      @PhatRobsOils 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      LOL Houston is out of control....@@julm7744

    • @lamontjohnson5810
      @lamontjohnson5810 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@julm7744 San Antonio isn't growing much? What? That's news to me and I live in Texas. As with most other major cities in the US since the pandemic, San Antonio proper's growth has slowed down a bit. But, it hasn't declined like some major cities have during this period. And---even with the slow down in growth, San Antonio still ranked third in overall growth betwen July 2021 and July 2022 according to the latest US Census. Only Forth Worth, TX and Phoenix, AZ, respectively, had larger numerical growth during that year. In addition, with San Antonio and Austin's metro areas merging due to their close proximity, together, they are expected to grow from 5.2 million in 2023 to 8.3 million by 2050. The growth in these two areas (and throughout the rest of the Texas Triangle) is already a major headache for the state in terms of housing and transportation infrastructure.
      By the way, I'm not sure where you're getting your facts about Texas cities, but a lot of major to medium-sized cities in Texs have been booming since the mid 20th century and not just Austin and Dallas, but also includes Fort Worth, Houston, Lubbock, El Paso (yes, El Paso AND Lubbock), Brownsville, Killeen, Bryan-College Station, Tyler, Laredo, Midland, etc. Of course, being as large of a state as Texas is, not all major to medium cities have seen explosive growth. That or either they have slowed down (or declined) over the past couple of decades. Such as cities like Corpus Christi, Beaumont, Waco, Wichita Falls, Amarillo, etc.

  • @robynlovesroses
    @robynlovesroses 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    You completely left out a half a million people living in the Quad Cities. The Quad Cities straddles the river; half in Iowa and half in Illinois. The Cities have survived majored flooding since the beginning. It would have been worth mentioning how they handle development and flood management.

    • @andrewolson1157
      @andrewolson1157 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I also thought it would have been interesting to note that Illinois original state capital, Kaskaskia, is now fully on the wrong side of the river. Would have fit well into the segment on political borders at the end.

    • @lamontjohnson5810
      @lamontjohnson5810 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I thought I was the only one that felt like some medium-sized cities were missing on the northern portion of the river. Just couldn't put my finger on it. But you did. LOL

    • @irelandishsac13
      @irelandishsac13 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Don't forget about the Government Bridge that connects Rock Island Arsenal to Illinois and Iowa.

    • @UseByDate-Expired
      @UseByDate-Expired 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@andrewolson1157 part of Kentucky can only be reached through Missouri, and other parts shift between Kentucky and IL

    • @mostlyguesses8385
      @mostlyguesses8385 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hmm

  • @NewReflections-pw8xm
    @NewReflections-pw8xm 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Growing up in Harahan, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, I could hit the River with a rock. It was an incredible place to be a kid. Watching the ships go by, etc.

  • @SS-yj2le
    @SS-yj2le 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Northern areas also have access to the port of Chicago which was developed for its connection between the Mississippi drainage area and the New York region. The southern area is also depopulated due to the land being very unstable. A lot of that area is swampland with nothing to handle large structures very well without intense development.

  • @jevinday
    @jevinday 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    That was really interesting Geoff. I never really considered that there are so few major population centers along the Mississippi compared to other rivers

  • @hereticalgames3695
    @hereticalgames3695 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Have you ever heard of the Jones Act?
    It was kinda the reason we don’t do cabotage in the US which hurts specifically the southern Mississippi River valley and the Ohio River valley.

  • @TheBaldr
    @TheBaldr 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    In 1803 the Louisiana Purchase there were 1000 people living in the former Spanish village of New Madrid, Missouri. Not only floods, but 1000 earthquakes up to 8.0M between 1811-1812. 220 years later the population has only doubled.

  • @realmless4193
    @realmless4193 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    "No major US cities" except Memphis and New Orleans.

    • @RamblingOmarr
      @RamblingOmarr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And St. Louis, And Minneapolis

    • @WhackaWhacka
      @WhackaWhacka 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@RamblingOmarr He said the southern half. Still a major error to overlook Memphis and New Orleans.

    • @StevenHughes-hr5hp
      @StevenHughes-hr5hp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@WhackaWhacka Saint Louis counts as the southern part too. That is where the Missouri and the Mississippi branch off. North of there is really the upper Mississippi.

    • @WhackaWhacka
      @WhackaWhacka 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@StevenHughes-hr5hp The "southern half" would start at Ste. Genevieve, just like the red line that pops up. The divide between upper and lower is at Cairo.

  • @1manarmy889
    @1manarmy889 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I’m from Louisiana in an area along the river, it’s industrial use keeps people away, a lot of chemical and oil refineries, the stretch from Baton Rouge and past New Orleans is called “cancer ally”

    • @glennrishton5679
      @glennrishton5679 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've caught some really nice catfish around the Grain elevators but sure as hell not going to eat them, no telling what the chemical plants may have added to the water.

    • @dalegoff219
      @dalegoff219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yep. I'm in one of those plants daily, across the river from BR.
      They're an economic boon for the region, but at what cost?

  • @keefmeister77
    @keefmeister77 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I moved away from New Orleans because of the crime. The river and flooding had nothing to do with it. Never had water in any house I ever lived in (over 60 years) and I mostly lived in Gretna which is close to the river. There was a time when New Orleans was the most populated city in the south and I'm pretty sure the river was still there.

  • @ulfricstormcloak5080
    @ulfricstormcloak5080 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    You should do an in-depth video about the old river control structure along the Mississippi which keeps the river from diverting to the Atchafalaya river. If it wasn’t for human intervention the Mississippi would literally change course. The book “The Control of Nature” goes in depth about this topic along with more ways humans try to control the Mississippi River

    • @glennrishton5679
      @glennrishton5679 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is a great book. John McPhee writes some very fascinating books on a variety of subjects. Imagine an entire book on oranges or birch bark canoes.

    • @dalegoff219
      @dalegoff219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And that actually diverts about 25% of the Mississippi's flow into the Atchafalaya River and Basin. Without the ORCS being in place, New Orleans would STILL be devastated from Katrina.
      The Basin bridge is probably one of my favorite stretches of roadI've driven.

  • @louieharperspring
    @louieharperspring 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I forgot Minneapolis metro had almost 4 million people. Proud to be the leading city on the Mississippi

    • @JTA1961
      @JTA1961 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can keep your winters

    • @paulleavitt9550
      @paulleavitt9550 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also the setting for The Mary Tyler Moore show

    • @nickpavia9021
      @nickpavia9021 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They are really stretching the definition of what is considered part of the "metro" when they say it has a population of 4 million

    • @louieharperspring
      @louieharperspring 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      literally, the main city has 800k.@@nickpavia9021

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nickpavia9021 That's not too far off. The Minneapoilis-St. Paul MSA has about 3.7 million people, while the St. Louis MSA has about 2.8 million.

  • @lannybrasher2452
    @lannybrasher2452 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I live in Natchez, Mississippi. The oldest settlement on the Mississippi river. Pretty cool small town. More of a retirement town now. Use to be a very rich town. Now not so much. Will never understand how anyone lived here before the invention of air conditioning. Don't really have to worry about flooding seeing how the majority of the town sits on a 200 ft bluff.

  • @karladoesstuff
    @karladoesstuff 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I'm surprised you didn't mention the New Madrid fault.

    • @jonathanbowers8964
      @jonathanbowers8964 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The New Madrid Fault is kind of the "one hit wonder" of the geology world because it had a single massive earthquake in the 1810s (before much of the region was intensively colonized) and nothing of note since. While it will likely have another earthquake sometime in the future, it isn't enough to deter human settlement. Japan and Chile both have larger and more frequent earthquakes (with Japan and Chile being the Taylor Swift and Beyonce of the Earthquake world respectfully) and are more densely populated than the New Madrid fault region.
      The real reason that area is sparsely settled can be taken from its local name "The Bottoms" as in the frequent floods that ravage that part of the Mississippi River System.

    • @ericpierce3660
      @ericpierce3660 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jonathanbowers8964 Respectively. Damn autocorrect.

    • @Wayne_Wanders
      @Wayne_Wanders 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jonathanbowers8964I was from a village about 10 miles north of new Madrid that don’t exist no more due to high river and blowing the levee. If you want to rebuild and live out there than insurance will only cover you if u build on stilts. You’re very correct

  • @Blackdiamondprod.
    @Blackdiamondprod. 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    You keep saying that there are “No major cities” off the southern shores of the Mississippi, but then you refer to St. Louis as a major city. St. Louis has 293,000 residents, while New Orleans (on the shores of the southern Mississippi) has 377,000 residents and Memphis has 630,000 residents. That’s very inconsistent.

  • @zachvayo8970
    @zachvayo8970 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Great video! Another factor might be the construction of railroads (and later highways) that reduce the necessity of being on a major river for trade. Chicago is probably the best example of a railroad-era metropolis in the US, and notably right on the doorstep of the Mississippi basin without actually being on the river. I wonder if you could argue that Houston does something similar for the lower Mississippi basin?

  • @Ad-qt8lx
    @Ad-qt8lx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Im from Mississippi, the ms delta (or the ms-yazoo alluvial plain). The delta is the poorest region of the poorest state. Lots of antebellum mansions there were built on mounds bc of the flooding. And the few ppl that can afford a home much less to build one there, build theirs on hills and mounds too. better than getting out sandbags every year. When i was lil we lived not 400 yrds away from the yazoo. We moved down river closer to Jackson so my dad could get a better job. But overall in Mississippi and along the ms river theres no economic opportunities, schools suck, nothing to do (paradise if u love to hunt & fish), mosquitos, humid climate, its the bible belt & conservative (if those r personally a problem), theres tornadoes, flooding and/or hurricanes.

  • @antonleimbach648
    @antonleimbach648 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Much of this has to do with slave vs free states. The south focused on cotton and other agricultural crops while the north industrialized. That’s why the south is still behind when it comes to education, infrastructure, and will be for the foreseeable future.

  • @mmmitchell6887
    @mmmitchell6887 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I grew up on the Mississippi camping and swimming and fishing and boating. It really was a blessing. And particularly the Minnesota Wisconsin border. Shout out to all my Midwestern folks: you really are friendly and beautiful

  • @raymondmartin6737
    @raymondmartin6737 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My wife and I were guests at the Lewis
    and Clark reenactment 20 years ago
    near St Louis. The couple we knew in
    nearby Illinois, the husband's Father
    was a member of the reenactment on
    one of the Keel boat replicas like in
    the original expedition. We also visited
    the museum nearby.😊

  • @lilgarlicbread
    @lilgarlicbread 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    I'm from New Orleans and have lived here all my life. I really want my city to be this great, huge population center, but I think our heyday is behind us-- especially after Katrina.

    • @voiceofreason2674
      @voiceofreason2674 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Our best days are not behind us, with our port were basically operating at baseline right now.

    • @dalegoff219
      @dalegoff219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      With Landry coming in, I'm worried any changes for the "better" are gonna be at the expense of the residents. Landry's cronyism is gonna make Edwin Edwards look like an amateur.

    • @roberthussey595
      @roberthussey595 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dalegoff219 - I call Jeff Landry - PeeWee Herman… Electing the former Attorney General is going to be seen as the worst move the voters of LA have ever made

  • @TadDonaghe
    @TadDonaghe 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Ouch. I grew up in Vicksburg. On the river in Mississippi. But yeah, it was only 33,000 people when I lived there, and just over 20,000 now.

    • @jamesalexander5623
      @jamesalexander5623 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Vicksburg now is just a Civil War Museum! .... But a Beautiful One!

  • @jonathanstensberg
    @jonathanstensberg 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This is not surprising at all. Most major rivers have only a few major cities on them. The reasons are manifold:
    1. Major rivers tend to have large lowlands that are poorly suited for major cities.
    2. Major rivers tend to have periodic catastrophic floods that cost lives and fortunes.
    3. Major rivers have numerous access points, allowing commerce to be spread out along its length rather than concentrated.
    4. Major rivers tend to have few of any falls that would provide natural concentration points for commerce.
    5. Major rivers tend to have navigable tributaries that allow for commercial traffic to push deeper into the continent before disembarking.
    These factors usually mean that a major river will have a city located near the mouth that serves as an ocean port and a city located near the navigable head that serves as a land port, with few cities in between. Cities will instead be located on the navigable tributaries, especially near their falls, navigable heads, or other points of commercial concentration.
    Viewed this way, the Lower Mississippi is actually noteworthy for having such large cities like Baton Rouge and Memphis, rather than a lack of cities.

  • @johnnguyen6159
    @johnnguyen6159 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Maybe just a coincidence but a lot of major cities along the Mississippi are some of the most violent cities in the US. St. Louis, Memphis, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, usually make it to the lists of top 10 cities with highest crime rate not to mention smaller cities like East St. Louis and Cairo. The only exception sort of is Minneapolis/St. Paul.

  • @dennisenright9347
    @dennisenright9347 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    The land next to a river is called the floodplain. The name should probably suggest that one should not build a city there.

    • @Odin029
      @Odin029 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      New Orleans sits at what was the most ideal portage location between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain so it had to be where it is, and Memphis is called Bluff City for a reason. It's literally built on the bluffs along the riverbank. Even with the elevation Memphis is sometimes at risk of flooding.

  • @chizorama
    @chizorama 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I still remember the floods of 93(?), drove through St Louis, months after the worst of it, & the water was still up to the 2nd stories of the factories along the river. Kinda blew my mind as a young adult.

  • @warrenstribling3386
    @warrenstribling3386 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I'm from Northeast Arkansas, part of the Delta. Besides all the obvious farming exports we have, we're a small town county, that produces more steel than Pittsburgh. We've got Nucor, US Steel, and Tenaris. And they all use the river to ship.

    • @777macdude
      @777macdude 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      blytheville, Osceola???

    • @dalegoff219
      @dalegoff219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I did a job once at a NUCOR in the Arkansas portion of the ArkLaTex, in the middle of winter. 20° outside, and about 120° inside. 🤣

  • @revinhatol
    @revinhatol 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    1:33 With parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan

  • @kosjeyr
    @kosjeyr 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    It's "I" - tasca.
    Not "E" - tasca.
    Edit: also surprised you didn't mention the Quad Cities as "major cities" in the northern half of the Mississippi.

    • @tyrepair
      @tyrepair 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It almost sounded like he said “It”-aska. I could see how someone might make that mistake if they didn’t know.

  • @elizabethdavis1696
    @elizabethdavis1696 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Please consider doing a video on what the United States would look like if state lines were decided by watersheds

    • @breadjesus8289
      @breadjesus8289 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes

    • @alissaharris8035
      @alissaharris8035 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As they should be ! You cannot control water.

  • @StevenHughes-hr5hp
    @StevenHughes-hr5hp 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    New Orleans, Memphis and Saint Louis are the major urban areas. All three of them are in the southern Mississippi. After it becomes a small tribitary of the larger Missouri River it sort of fades into insignificance.

  • @jesseandersen4055
    @jesseandersen4055 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Fun fact I only know cause this video made me curious. South America has 5 of the 10 largest rivers (when measured by volume). On top of that that the Amazon puts out 5times more water than the second largest river and 80 times more water than the Nile, which is the only river comparable in length to the Amazon.

  • @kc_1018
    @kc_1018 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    My old college roommate was from Washington County Mississippi which is north of Vicksburg. I remember him telling me it's humid as hell and the region is full of poverty.

  • @JosephStJames2000
    @JosephStJames2000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I really enjoyed this video.

  • @Fly420
    @Fly420 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Grew up in St Louis and lived in Mpls for 18 years. The River has been a part of my life since I was born.
    The recent droughts were disheartening.

  • @kevinmcconnell3641
    @kevinmcconnell3641 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The St. Louis metro areas last large flooding was actually from the Missouri River, less than 5 river miles from its confluence.
    The COE has levied the Mississippi river north of St. Louis to minimize flooding.
    But once you get south of St. Louis the flood plain widens dramatically.

  • @robertmartinjr.4537
    @robertmartinjr.4537 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm from a small town in Eastern Arkansas that is directly on the banks of the mighty Mississippi. I have very fond memories growing up near Ole man River.

  • @bossfan49
    @bossfan49 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video Geoff. Awesome maps and graphics.

  • @marcusgiles6806
    @marcusgiles6806 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I seem to always find myself on your page. Thanks for all the great info!

  • @colincampbell4261
    @colincampbell4261 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I luv your channel. Well presented, educational, enjoyable and accessible to all age groups. Thanks.

  • @terranceakerson3480
    @terranceakerson3480 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I believe you missed the Minnesota River which flows into the Mississippi at Fort Snelling. The Minnesota River connects with the Red River which was a trade route to Hudson Bay.

  • @aryehyehudahajzenberg9503
    @aryehyehudahajzenberg9503 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video as usual ! Thanx a lot ! May God bless you always !

  • @Ad-qt8lx
    @Ad-qt8lx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I remember like 3 yrs ago 2 boys (16 & 21 yrs old) went duck hunting or scouting near Vicksburg. They didnt come home, bodies were never found. 1 of them took their lab with them, poor puppy disappeared too. they used their other lab that didnt go hunting to search for them. I think they found their boat and some life jackets washed up. Was a big deal in central ms. I remember it bc my brother and dad duck hunt, we've had labs all my life, and the boys were mine and my brothers age. This was in December and it was unusually consistently cold that year. That following February we got that wild ice storm (the one that almost took out texas). I think they stopped looking for the boys at Christmas. They most likely drowned and it coulda been prevented had they worn lifejackets. And the water that day was below freezing. They definitely fell out, got exhausted and drowned trying to swim to the boat or bank. Labs r made for the water, cold water too and it most likely had a vest on to keep it warm. The dog probably couldnt make it either. Should respect the rivers, ESPECIALLY the Mississippi. It is a monster. Its fast and huge. Never catch me not wearing a life jacket on the Mississippi in a damn john boat.
    edit: i just did some reading about it, the boat hit rocks and they found boots. Its a death sentence to jump in deep water with boot or waiters on. I think 1 of them fell out and the other took his boots off before jumping out to help

    • @glennrishton5679
      @glennrishton5679 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was reading a notice some years ago from the Coast Guard an interesting fact. The majority of men who go out in their boats fishing/hunting and never returning their bodies are found and their zippers are down. The stood up in their boat to urinate and fell overboard.

    • @Ad-qt8lx
      @Ad-qt8lx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@glennrishton5679 yea that makes sense.

  • @Kindle1234
    @Kindle1234 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video, learned something tonight, thanks

  • @WJV9
    @WJV9 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Of course few people want to live in a flood zone, rich farm land is too important to cover up with concrete and asphalt. Build on the high ground on river bluffs makes sense.

  • @wilsonpickett3881
    @wilsonpickett3881 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hmmm. The Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area has 5.5 million people. The river runs right through the Twin Cities. Upstream is St. Cloud which has 200,000. Then there's LaCrosse, WI which has 140,000 in the metro area. Moving on Dubuque metro has 190,000, the Quad Cities has 475,000, St. Louis has a metro population of just under 3 million, Memphis has 1.4 million, Baton Rouge is 775,000, and New Orleans is 1.3 million.So that's just under 13 million just in the largest cities. That doesn't even begin to account for smaller cities like Vicksburgh, Cairo, Cape Girardeau, etc. and thousands of small towns.

  • @MM91001
    @MM91001 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The graphics of the tributaries and state boundaries were impeccable 👌🏾👏🏾

  • @williamperkins9125
    @williamperkins9125 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As far as living in Mississippi goes, there is the consideration that south of Memphis to the mouth, a lot of the land is either privately owned agricultural or an easement of the Corps of Engineers. The latter especially is not keen on private development of land required to mitigate flooding.

  • @forgottenplaces9780
    @forgottenplaces9780 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Since when are Memphis and New Orleans not major cities?

    • @mister.sinister18
      @mister.sinister18 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Since always

    • @highlymedicated2438
      @highlymedicated2438 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@mister.sinister18 But they are a major city. Even if they're only considered a major city in the state

    • @mister.sinister18
      @mister.sinister18 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @highlymedicated2438 Maybe in the past they were major cities but not anymore

    • @forgottenplaces9780
      @forgottenplaces9780 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@mister.sinister18 anything over 100k is a major city imo, memphis is over 600k and new orleans is 376k, even Baton Rouge is over 200k per us census, this guy just ignores that to fit his narrative

  • @interwebtubes
    @interwebtubes 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Nice. Piece,
    As a little fun -fact is that broadcast station call signs or station signs begin with a letter W for stations located on the east side of the Mississippi River ,
    Fior example WABC RADIO AND TELEVISION NM OVER THERE IN NEW YORK CITY ,
    Or KFI RADIO IN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA ,
    WGN television in Chicago, Illinois ,
    This was done so that the federal communications commission could easily determine where any given broadcast station was located

    • @UserName-ts3sp
      @UserName-ts3sp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and then of course you have the oddballs like KDKA in pittsburgh

    • @Lee-jh6cr
      @Lee-jh6cr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I live on the river and these designations are evident here. I've always wondered why W and K?

    • @interwebtubes
      @interwebtubes 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gotcha,
      Please remember to keep your hands clean and washed up at all times so that you can protect your health,
      Stay safe buddy and thanks for your feedback

    • @UserName-ts3sp
      @UserName-ts3sp 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Lee-jh6cr i looked it up. the US was given certain letters for radio communications. W, K, N and A. N and A are used for military, so you see W and K for radio and tv

    • @Lee-jh6cr
      @Lee-jh6cr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thanx for checking! It was late and I was too tired. Where I live we have several radio stations - W on the east side of the river & K on the west. And now to check what is done N of Itasca, , ,

  • @jKLa
    @jKLa 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    So, Memphis, Tennessee which is along the Southern half of the Mississippi river population, roughly 600,000 and with a metro of around 1.3 million, is not a major US city to you... Really???

  • @flamingvans1135
    @flamingvans1135 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The current and former residents of Valmeyer, IL, can answer THAT question. As can anyone who lived along the Mississippi River in 1993.

    • @fxrivrgirl
      @fxrivrgirl 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Flood of 93 water flooded pictures of the river level just below electric lines 8-9 miles inland across from Warsaw IL on east side of Mississippi on the Missouri side. Wayland MO sl elevated from that long flood plain. It wiped small towns completely off the maps on the Illinois side....

    • @flamingvans1135
      @flamingvans1135 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fxrivrgirl It was a mindblower to see the new post-1993 town of Valmeyer, moved to a bluff above the river, while the few remaining riverside Valmeyer buildings sit abandoned. There hasn't been a series of rains like that since then, but with weather, there's always a chance.

  • @findwill
    @findwill 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Respect for the dedication you put in with Aftereffects

  • @Everclearfan86
    @Everclearfan86 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Memphis? Baton Rouge? New Orleans? I get these are not like Dallas-levels of 'major' but they're still along the river down south.

  • @taylor-eugenesimmons8615
    @taylor-eugenesimmons8615 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice Information!!!

  • @ivywoodxrecords
    @ivywoodxrecords 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The region was unavailable to American settlement prior to the Louisiana Purchase. And after the Purchase most settlement went west. So there were never really any movement of peoples up the river that way from New Orleans, they were all streaming west first towards St. Louis and then further west towards Oregon and California. They went across land, and most movement coming from the northeast, came across land routes over the Appalachians, through the Cumberland Gap, and into the Midwest. Not on ships to New Orleans and then up the river. That was the difference.
    And lets face it Middle America has never really been a draw for large scale migration, really ever. Besides Chicago and rust belt cities, maybe the Northwest Territories of Minnesota Wisconsin, and of course farm land all across the grain belt but the Mississippi floodplain, was mostly a highway, and people didnt really stop off too many places to see the sights. Those were wild places in wild times, and people kept moving. West. Not north south. Thats America.

  • @anthonyhall4427
    @anthonyhall4427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    South Carolina and Georgia is separated by water as well. The longest stretch, which is the Savanah River. And there are parts in which is the same as you was saying about the state on the other side (esculades).I all ways wonder why 🤔. But it makes sense now that you explained it for the Mississippi River

  • @michaelhiatt7377
    @michaelhiatt7377 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice job as always

  • @llfields3
    @llfields3 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Minor geographic detail, Cairo in Illinois is pronounced "Kay-Row," I'm guessing it has to do with Creole-type effect rooted in the French, English and Native American dialect influences.
    Another fun fact, the meandering of the Mississippi nearly caused the city of St. Louis to be cut off from the main channel in the early 1800's, but a series of dikes planned by young federal army officer Robert E. Lee directed the main channel back towards St. Louis. The dikes eroded what was once Duncan Island, but more interestingly connected Bloody Island to Illinois, an island that hosted many duels which gave it its name.

    • @glennrishton5679
      @glennrishton5679 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Little known history about RE Lee saving St Louis from erosion.

  • @NoneFB
    @NoneFB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You are a very good speaker.

  • @arseshidgaming
    @arseshidgaming 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    0:16 Memphis, new madrid, baton rouge, new Orleans

  • @glblb3030
    @glblb3030 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting. Thank you 👍

  • @garyharnish2395
    @garyharnish2395 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great info.

  • @gj1234567899999
    @gj1234567899999 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Since the river goes from north to south, and more tributary rivers and groundwater contribute to the river the further south you go, the river to the north is smaller and more tame, while to the south, the river is bigger and has more water and therefore more flooding.

  • @annakortukov2845
    @annakortukov2845 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The answer starts on 6:25

  • @pixelant2377
    @pixelant2377 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fun fact because of NYC more people live on the Hudson

  • @stuartyablon7184
    @stuartyablon7184 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? No major cities? What qualifies as "major"? St. Louis? Minneapolis? Memphis? New Orleans?

  • @ejb1992
    @ejb1992 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Smarter everyday” with Geoff!!

  • @ohcrounches1989
    @ohcrounches1989 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Ha I live 6 miles from Bellevue IA on the illinois side but it's so rural here I have to drive over 40 miles to get to Bellevue to access the closest bridge to me.

  • @mrdude98712
    @mrdude98712 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One major part that is overlooked is that the Mississippi River is the death of local Native American tribes, they used it for transportation and as a trade route similar to other major waterways. Rebuilding a massive river trade route would take decades after the white Americans moved to the region, but this was also when trains showed up; thus, the river was no longer the only means of transport. The invention of trains made us less dependent on water allowing America to develop differently than places that have roots from times with river-centered trade routes like Wuhan China.

  • @hanschristopherson8056
    @hanschristopherson8056 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The southern Mississippi is scary the flooding is insane

  • @claykennedy6790
    @claykennedy6790 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No major cities in the southern part of the Mississippi?
    *Memphis and New Orleans*
    "What are we a joke?"

  • @hperm2022
    @hperm2022 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    9:19 *FOODING*

  • @johnmorgan5009
    @johnmorgan5009 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You have the wrong pronunciation for Cairo, IL. You pronounced the same way as Cairo, Egypt. Unfortunately, Illinois has a different pronunciation for it. It is pronounced more like Kayro. Illinois has done this to several cities around the state where the local pronunciation is radically different from the foreign city, Marseilles is another example. Illinois also has several portions of its area to the west of the Mississippi. One of the areas west of the Mississippi is Kaskaskia, IL. This was at one time the capitol of Illinois.

  • @DrewJoiner
    @DrewJoiner 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Man do I love this channel

  • @c.rutherford
    @c.rutherford 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When I was a kid Schoolhouse Rock used to have a jingle about the United States on Saturday mornings called "Elbow Room!"
    It sang about how there are going to be more and more and more people, wonderfully filling up every nook and cranny of the U.S. with everyone demanding just enough room to swing their elbows.
    It ended with the line "And when we finally run out of space, we'll spread to the Moon!" I have to admit as a little kid I found the song kind of disturbing 😅

    • @dalegoff219
      @dalegoff219 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah, it hits a little bit different as an adult who later learned about "manifest destiny" and genocide.

    • @c.rutherford
      @c.rutherford 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@dalegoff219 yeah I was reading yesterday on another page about African Americans 'returning' back to Africa in big groups all teary-eyed calling it the 'diaspora'.
      But the locals aren't seeing it that way as far as their comments. To them they're rich American foreigners coming and taking their land.
      "What help are you giving us?" say the local Africans. "Give? In the US they just tell us to help ourselves and mind our own business!" say the AAs.
      "Yeah but you're taking our land, what do we get for that? All you do is build yourself houses. You don't build anything for us."
      "There's plenty of land. Why do we have to build for you?"
      "All this land is already OWNED by somebody!"
      Then the AAs came up with a new word, "Colorism" to describe the discrimination they're getting from local Africans.
      "They're scamming us! Just because someone looks like you, doesn't mean you can trust them", say the AAs.
      "You aint real Africans you've got European and Indigenous American in you!" say the locals.
      good lord..... 😵‍💫

    • @Lee-jh6cr
      @Lee-jh6cr 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Standing room only.

  • @mohammedabdessamedabdelbas5934
    @mohammedabdessamedabdelbas5934 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the new logo is so simple and so beautiful

  • @davidmontville4885
    @davidmontville4885 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    3:25 You could have mentioned that it is connected to the Great Lakes and was a major contributor to the growth of Chicago and the Midwest.

    • @Compucles
      @Compucles 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Although, it's only connected due to a canal.

  • @Nicksonian
    @Nicksonian 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    At (9:17) “Less prone to FOODING.”

  • @MuffHam
    @MuffHam 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Can you do a episode on the Carbiou Region of BC Canada.

    • @Dontwanttoliveanymore
      @Dontwanttoliveanymore 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Athabasca-Mackenzie watershed area could support a vast population. Even in the cold.

  • @Gustaf1965
    @Gustaf1965 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video, Geoff. One small correction. The town at the confluence of the hit and Mississippi is pronounced CARE-o.

  • @KevinSmith-qi5yn
    @KevinSmith-qi5yn 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Crocodiles, humidity, mosquitos.

  • @FirstLast-qf1df
    @FirstLast-qf1df 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Minneapolis and St. Paul, St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans. What are you talking about when you say "so few people"?

  • @stickynorth
    @stickynorth 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When the watershed is 40% of the nation, I'd definitely consider the Mississippi region America's Heartland...

  • @Marcoisen
    @Marcoisen หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a first mate of towboats down here in Parana river in Argentina (Southern South America) i must say that i'm amazed by the similarities between our rivers only that in our case it's flipped, the southern half is full of big cities and the northern part not so much. The northern half has also a tendency to change course, and it changes so fast that between one journey and the next the course of the channel changes, so we must put an officer on a motorboat with a sounder to outrun the tow and barge convoy and quickly check the depth of the nav channel downstream while a seaman drops plastic buoys to signal the new channel, preatty neat job i must say, i used to do it and it's pretty fun. Do you guys use the same method in northamerica?