I just like the first comment I see on California in the stream chat is "EWWW A Liberal state." Right after our beloved historian says "No Politics." California is the best meh state in the country.
I was surprised at the C ranking without context, so I went back to listen to his reasoning. I can respect the reasoning of "everything in Californa is beautiful, Norcal is nice, Lake Tahoe is nice...not you LA."
As a lifelong Arkansan I have to disagree. I am surprised he is giving it an A for the south of the little rock area. Wish he would have explored the Ozarks.
Hey @VloggingThroughHistory. I'm a former Columbine student. Until recently, I worked with the grandson of Dave Sanders as a coworker. It's good to hear people speaking well of him.
Originally from Canton, Ohio but now live in New Orleans for the last 8 years. As a historian I can’t believe you hadn’t been to New Orleans at the time of this video but I love the channel. Love the unbiased takes that you tend to have in regards to politics. Def subscribed, thanks.
I've lived all over the place. Oregon is probably my favorite place I've ever lived. I think a lot of people based judgement on politics centered around a few blocks in Portland, ignoring the rest of it. Does it have it's issues? Sure. It's not S tier. It is certainly worthy of an A or B, though. There is place for everybody in Oregon. Side note: Oregon is not the Florida of the West. That is clearly Arizona. It's not even close.
Portland and Eugene are the two most densely populated cities which also have some of the dumbest and violent people living there. Oregon's becoming as expensive as California but without any of the jobs. Absolutely trash state.
As a Delawarean I must add: Delaware is the only state with a rounded border! The top part of Delaware was drawn on a map that went out in a circular 10 mile radius from the New Castle Courthouse. Also home to DuPont, one of the most essential manufacturers during WWI and WWII. Home to Perdue Chicken which is still a family-run business to this day and instrumental in revolutionizing how we purchase chicken today. Dover Air Force base in Delaware is where all the soldiers killed overseas come into. The suits worn on Apollo 11 were designed and manufactured in Delaware. Some not so flattering facts: Delaware was the LAST state to outlaw slavery and we didn't ratify the 13th and 14th amendments until the early 1900s. I am a die-hard fan of Delaware history and was fortunate enough to take a class dedicated to the history of the state so I would be more than happy to fill in some info! As always, great content, great discussion!
A few points for Nebraska to balance out the meh's and the tornados: Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium was rated the #1 zoo in the world in 2014, and still frequently shows up within top tens today. Gallop ranks Nebraska on the Well-Being index as #7 in the US and Lincoln as the #1 city. Kool-Aid was invented in Nebraska. Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, and the headquarters of Strategic Air Command throughout the Cold War. Yeah, can't really think of anything else, really.
My state of West Virginia gets kicked down at times from outsiders. Its beautiful here, especially in October. Its also very quiet and most of the people I know dont even lock their doors to their houses or cars. Very peaceful place.
When I was young I had some football cards and was so happy when one of the Baltimore Ravens players I had a card of was on tv at the 2013(?) super bowl...can’t remember who it was tho
25:50 both my Grandpa and my Father are policemen, both agree that 80% of the accedents they covered in Kissimmee & Orlando are from out of state people that are visisting Disney on vacation.
Fun list. Two of my favorite States got a C from you and other a D lol. Arizona, California, and Oregon. Fair enough. I spent the last 10 years in California before moving back to Arizona where I was born and raised. In various places around the San Francisco area and I absolutely fell in love with the bay area. Lived in a cute coastal town south of SF called Pacifica where my wife and I had an apartment with an Ocean view, which was stunning. A great small feeling coastal town. Then moved east of SF to Walnut Creek which is a super nice green area on the transit line so I took a train and walked to my work in downtown SF (before going fully remote). It's funny, we visited SF for game conferences for work and swore we'd never live there, fun to visit, but not to live. Then I got a job there and were in temp housing inside SF itself for two weeks and completely changed our views. Complete and utter 180. If we could've properly afforded living in a nice SF downtown area would've done it hands down. The food and pub culture there is fantastic, being able to just walk out your apartment complex door and walk down your street to countless amazing food and pub choices. Never thought it'd be something I liked, usually was more (and am now) a suburban sort of person. Though actually living it changed my mind. Still like a more private suburban lifestyle as well but now I get why it's still so insanely expensive for that other lifestyle, it was great for two weeks and the tastes I got when going to work. It's not for everyone but as someone who swore I'd never live in the area but loved the last 10 years there, if my family were there and housing was a bit cheaper It'd be my top pick, I get now why it's so much more expensive than nearly anywhere else. Even with a bit of a lower market recently it's still like 700k+ for a smallish 1/2 bedroom condo in most nice areas. I now understand that even if I ended up going towards a big suburban house in another state, partially due to family. I also lived there while I heard people trash talking it and it baffled me lol.. I mean I took a 40 min train ride into downtown SF and walked 15-20 min deeper in each way, I truly experienced it and it was nothing like nearly any of the negative views I heard people (who mostly never had been there or recently) said, definitely don't trust peoples negative views of places without personal experience (not to say it's perfect and doesn't have downsides of course, but they are highly exaggerated by many people with an alternate agenda and the massive positives are often either not known by those people or way underplayed). Some people are just the people who will find what not to like about a place because it's convenient for their world view. I don't ascribe to that personally and I think every State probably has a lot of great positives to offer. I lived and worked in Eugene, Oregon for 4 years. Know a lot of people who still live there, around Salem (between Eugene and Portland) and the Portland area. Absolutely loved it. There's nothing quite as magical as the super green moss grown tree filled Oregon forests. Simply stunning. Eugene is a cross between a college town (University of Oregon is there) and a hippy town. Yeah, it's probably even odder in person than it sounds lol. Mostly in a good endearing way though. Super nice people that are so friendly, great culture, great food and get together spots. Super laid back and lots of green in the city. The city combined with the bordering one is somewhere between 300k-400k people but it feels like a 20k smaller city/town. It really is a magical combination of a decent sized city with amenities but truly feels like a small woodsy town with a great endearing culture and people. Heard equally good things about other parts of Oregon too, including further east in places like Bend and despite all the negative perpetuation of Portland I still hear lots of great things there. Another case where you can't trust anyone with an alternate agenda. Oregon is such an amazing place, again another place I would've settled down at if family was there (do have a lot of close friends/former co-workers and ironically when my wife and I moved away an uncle/aunt and 1st cousins that I love moved there, but not my immediate family). I currently live in Glendale Arizona waiting on a new house build in the far South East of Mesa Arizona. I grew up here in Phoenix (was born in a hospital diagonally across from an old school mall here, Christown) in plenty of areas that weren't the best, but I still enjoyed it. There are some fantastic areas here though (and those areas not considered great still have great people who have a lot of pride in their communities too). Politically and culturally in a lot of ways California and Oregon align better with me, though I don't just a place purely by that (political ideas and culture shifts so I find it's pointless to judge places too much on that, there's more to life than that as well) but there's a sort of moderate individualism I really like here in Arizona. A sort of do your own thing as long as you don't disrupt me. I also love the beauty of the desert, how big and sprawling and flat this metro area here is. It used to be a cheap place, that's unfortunately no longer really a plus, though that just means it's more desirable, lots of recent development in communities, amenities, new industries etc. Really impressed with how it's grown and I think a lot of it in good ways (though there's two sides to everything and honestly my own family would've probably been priced out of the city with where we were at growing up). Since I grew up in the 5th/6th biggest city in the US I don't have that sort of small town/city hometown nostalgia, but there is something about the overall area that after being back a few months I do really enjoy. The heat certainly isn't for everyone and as you point out dry heat is no walk in the part. 115 degrees (which with the current heat wave it's hit multiple times lately) when it's directly on your skin IMHO is worse in dry heat, it not only burns your skin but dries it out. That causes major problems with allergies and dehydration you don't get in super humid places. If you can avoid that and stay indoors it's better than humid heat though. My family lived 3 years growing up in western Massachusetts (a place called Pitsfield) and I was pretty young so can't judge it much, but I enjoyed it there. I didn't enjoy the snow and I gladly take the blazing heat over the snow, but that's just me. I too have ancestry in Eastern Kentucky, some of my families from there were Cox, Mahan, Hussey, and Goodwin. My wife and I love the show Justified and she teases me about my roots nearby there. Including Harlan county being named by someone with the surname Harlan who is a cousin of mine through my own Harlan surnamed ancestry from PA. I've visited a few other States too though would love to visit each State some day. I think they are all great in their own ways and honestly could live in any of them and enjoy it.
Was in the start of the stream and was the one who asked Scotland or England and loved that you read out that Celtic are full of nonces when I asked was buckled when you read that out. S tier TH-camr. Edit: also very staunch you are a gers fan I’m from Glasgow and we pronounce govan like guvan
As a Virginian who has traveled to Florida twice in my life, I love Florida but I acknowledge your opinion about it. The main reason on why I like Florida a lot is because I’ve been to both Disney and Universal and I gotta say, THERE BOTH AMAZING‼️‼️
I thought Boston was pretty clean when I visited. Granted, I was staying downtown mostly & took an uber everywhere else. I enjoyed my trip there though. I liked the combination of modern & historic buildings. I preferred it over NYC anyway, if I had to visit one again.
Hey I gotta say I really enjoyed this stream. Just a quick minor correction from a Wisconsinite living in Green Bay. Manitowoc is pronounced (Man-Eh-Toe-Wok). Keep up the great content man!
You mentioned Warren Harding. One of the places on my bucket list is to go see Teapot Dome in Wyoming to wonder why a weird looking rock was the subject of a big scandal. In all seriousness, this was very entertaining and fun video. I’m from Illinois. Newcomer to your channel and have been bingewatching your Civil War battlefields. Keep up the great work!
As a native of Arizona yeah it's hot you get adjusted after living there for a while summers are brutal but winters are beautiful down south it's literally the exact opposite in the north except winter means in the north cold enough to have snow not like anywhere up in the northern states.
New Jersey, “we don’t like you either”. We kind of embrace the whole “everyone makes fun of us” thing and wear it like a badge of honor. I’m from NJ but I would probably give it a B at best. Hawaii might be my only S, it’s literally paradise. I know it’s expensive there, but hey it’s expensive here in NJ too and it isn’t a freaking tropical paradise.
I am an Arizonan and I have to say that I would put it at B, however C is not a bad spot. I love Arizona and yes we can get insanely hot and humid days it's not just a "Dry" heat here. However, We don't have to worry about Tornados, Earthquakes, or other natural disasters and it's only hot about four months of the year the rest of the year it's beautiful and you can also go two hours north and get 20-30 degrees colder than in the valley during the summer. Besides I think Arizona has one of the coolest state flags. :P
This will probably get lost in the comments, but I visited a bunch of my old friends in Watertown just a few weeks ago. Its located right between Madison and Milwaukee, so there was plenty to do.
I hate the drive from Casper to Lander. But that’s because driving in it’s at the end of a 13 hour drive from North Dakota. Really nice when you get there though.
I was born in and grew up in Texas. I moved to Eugene, Oregon, in January 2019 and have lived here ever since. You should have rated it an S! It is gorgeous here in western Oregon.
The name midwest doesn't make a ton of sense, because that doesn't describe the geographical location of it very well. A more accurate name would be north central, center north, something like that. Wisconsin is considered a midwest state by anyone I've ever heard, it's more about the culture than anything, lots of agriculture, nice/polite people, lots of small towns and people living way out in the country, passionate about sports, etc. I would say Minnesota counts as a midwest state, although in my mind it's not as stereotypically midwest as some others. I don't consider the Dakotas as midwest states. For me it's the landscape. All the other midwest states are primarily flat, with a lot of prairie and farmland, and some forested hills, but very few rocky formations and actual tall mountains or hills. I feel like the Dakotas having multiple legit mountains and other big rock formations disqualifies them.
@@Connor-dy6wq Minnesota and Wisconsin are very similar in landscape and culture..German immigrants came to both states to farm the land. Also has the friendly "Minnesota nice" reputation although with so many transplanting here it has changed somewhat. Most of North Dakota is flat and Minnesota would probably be more like the northern and southern parts of the state(high hills and valleys) if it weren't for the glaciers. I do agree about South Dakota though. Not very midwestern like. The twin cities area isn't very Midwestern like either but that's a very small area compared to the rest of the state
@@annemariecronen9096 I probably just don't view Minnesota as very midwestern because the only times I've been there is driving from the Wisconsin side on the giant highways into the twin cities. But yeah Minnesota is for sure midwest. As for North Dakota, I still can't get over the fact that they have tallish mountains/hills with visible rock. Not as many as South Dakota, but they're still there. In the other midwest states the best you can get is a tree covered hill. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, I just feel like North Dakota looks more like a western state than a midwest state.
Other than the violence and cold weather, Chicago is one of the greatest cities in the US. The food, the architecture, the history. It’s Gotham City! Then you move down south towards Springfield and the exhibit of Lincoln is phenomenal. Illinois is an S tier state!
A great addition to these 1+ hour videos would be time stamps. Not sure if its easy for you or not. Im assuming you produce and edit completely by yourself. Thank you in advance.
NJ isn’t an S tier state, but there’s a few pros to the state. 1) Best pizza in the country, 2) Diversity throughout the city (North Jersey is made up of larger cities and is close to NYC and South Jersey is much more rural and has its charm, 3) The beach!!
Alright, you gotta get out to Western Washington as well at some point. Ride the ferries around the Puget Sound and get out to the penninsula and around Seattle. It's one of the most unique places and absolutely gorgeous. It does not rain as much as people like to gripe about and it's got a very very interesting history and some great museums overall. Definitely worth checking out and I highly recommend.
@@tamberlame27 I've lived all over and WA is definitely a drizzle. Since moving back here 5 years ago, it's far dryer than it was when I had moved away too. Our summers we get very little rain, it all mostly comes in the fall and winter
Yeah I was expecting a C, though he did say that Chicagoland is sucky, which... fair lol. As a Chicagoland native, I am pretty happy but Chicago gives us a bad rap so I understand.
Thanks for putting Maine (my homestate) and New York (my birthstate) at B. I would've put them on A or B personally. Also, you should definitely go to Rhode Island, its gorgeous.
Hi! Native Texan here and while I do live outside of San Antonio, Texas, I still consider myself a local due to the fact I was born there, visit the place ALL of the time, have family there (pretty much 90% of my mom's family lives there), and I spent my college years in SA. Anyway, you mentioned that there's not much to do at the Alamo. You'd be right! However, there is still a lot to do in Downtown SA where it's located. There's the Mall, a lot of places to eat, you have the Riverwalk, Hemisphere Park, La Villita, etc. And that's even including all of the city with our theme parks (Six Flags and Sea World), our missions, museums, Morgan's Wonderland, etc. SA is definitely a big touristy city, and we have so many major events (that are slowly returning). And in some of the surrounding counties, you do have other places to see like the Texas Hill Country, which does include New Braunfels, the home of one of America's best waterparks, Schlitterbahn. So while there's little do at the Alamo, there's still plenty to do in SA. I just wasn't sure if you were aware of that. Anyway, I am glad you like Texas. Also I don't blame you for disliking our weather lol. It is crazy hehe. We just get use to it (for the most part). FYI- "Don't Mess with Texas" is actually a warning about littering. It's why you see that sign while on the road.
Okay okay okay... Nebraska has the second best zoo in the world, offutt air force base where bush went during 9/11, and the college world series. We are also one of two states to give electoral votes based on district not whole state, which in my opinion is more representative
I'm part Chickasaw and hearing you talk about them is super cool. Hope you got the chance to check out the Chickasaw National Cultural Center, it's pretty amazing.
It’s technically illegal in the counties with over 100k people.. so that’s Washoe (Reno), and Clack (LasVegas valley). That means it’s technically illegal in Vegas.. that doesn’t matter, but technically.. I lived there for about 4 years as a kid/young adult. Never had an occasion to break that particular law myself as locals don’t really go to the hell that is the Strip (which is where the tourists and call girl billboards are and whatnot). We actually learned about the nuance of that law in a highschool class called “Nevada History” at the time.
@@nubworthycigars6682 the big joke about that is prostitutes are still there. And if you just drive outside the county limits there are legal brothels. (Lots of family in Reno)
Here is a fun fact, my city of Butte alone supplied the entire country with copper and Butte is known as the richest hill on earth. Some 1920's gangster lifestyles happened here, an explosion that was heard for miles, and a pit full of toxic water. Take a look
Come visit us in the Portland area sometime, it'll change your mind. It's genuinely nuts to me how many people across the country think that PDX is a nonstop riot or whatever. (Hasn't stopped the constant influx of people moving here, though). The SE part of the state is a bunch of nothing and not representative at all, of the natrual beauty or of the people.
Fun fact about Oklahoma my home state is that we are the only place in the world that had a land run, basically the government opened the land up for settlement to anyone and each settler was able to claim land for free. The land run days are where the terms Boomer and Sooner come from.
“You can’t pump your own gas in NJ”. Only people outside of NJ think of this as a negative. It’s a huge job creation and a great convenience. We have had the number one public education from Kindergarten to Graduate School for the past few decades. We have beautiful beaches and fun places to visit that are all very close. F tier is objectively ridiculous 🫡
It seems like a lot of people don't know that Francis Scott Key is from Maryland; I live within walking distance to his burial site. NASA Goddard SFC is located here in Greenbelt, Camp David in the Catoctin Mountains, and PRS guitars. Also great historical sites like Antietam, the C&O canal, and Ft. McHenry. The Inner Harbor has lots of cool museums, and Frederick has a great walkable downtown district. It's a good state with lots of thriving business and history, but often gets overlooked because it isn't the most flashy state. We do have the most flashy flag, though.
As someone who lives in eastern Kentucky, I can’t agree more with it being S tier 😂. There’s just so much pride being from here and you couldn’t pay me to live anywhere else
B is totally fair for Washington. One of the most beautiful states in the country but we certainly have homeless and cost of living issues as well as a lack of housing to keep up with the influx from other states. Housing costs are a little ridiculous.
When you come down to Louisiana, Come down to lafourche parish and I’ll take you around the all the civil war battlefields and points of interest in the area.
@@lane1313 you say that like BLM is a bad thing, also as someone from Seattle, idk where you're getting your ANTIFA stuff from, not that ANTIFA doesn't exist here, but it's not a problem
@@solinvictus2132 So, you think that getting rid of the inner city police force and setting up an autonomous region (CHAZ) which then saw multiple murders in the first night was not a problem? And yes, the BLM organization is a bad thing. They strategize violent rioting and actually ironically attempt to set up segregation themselves of blacks and whites.
I’m a Native American in New Mexico and I really appreciate how kind you are but everyone I know here just wants to leave lol, fantastic stream as usual though and I would love to see videos about the trail of tears!
Y’know, I was almost a little insulted by Nebraska being at C, with our zoo, airfield, and whatnot… *until I remembered everywhere west of Lincoln is pretty much the middle of nowhere.*
Before watching, born and raised in Wichita, Ks… Kansas is id say a C or D. The only way you could put it in as a B is that it was arguably the start of the Civil War and is the home of one of the best aviators and one of the best presidents
I got pulled over for speeding leaving Nevada in that down due to the sudden speed limit change on US 95 and being on cruise control, I could see the welcome to Oregon sign, Cop gave me the "you almost made it"
So what I like to do is split the territory as great lake states which would be Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and West Pennsylvania which is very similar to Ohio & Michigan. An Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri could be added in that group. Northern Missouri atleast. It's really up to you.
Someone in the chat asked "what's wrong with the Steelers ?'" After this year's postseason, the real question should be " What's not wrong with them ?" Worst 11-0 team ever!
If you look at the West Brom jersey a certain way, you can make the blue part look like a little cartoon body that your head is on top of, with the arms sticking out on either side. I will watch the entire video this way.
Btw when I went to Utah no questions it is S tier when you go there check out Zion National Park it is just so beautiful. The people are nice and it’s got great weather in the summers especially oh and how dear you put Florida in D tier my home state.
Well, I'm from Michigan, and he's from Ohio, so I bet he's gonna-
Right off the bat, Ohio S tier, Michigan F Tier.
Classic Ohio move.
Exactly, everything else seems OK, but I would seriously switch those 2. Soooo many bad things about Ohio, just terrible, F minus.
@@mva6044 I mean, it has Cedar Point, which could make most states God Tier on its own. I give it a solid F+
@@brianpatenaude2321 thanks god Michigan gave up Toledo, we got the better bargain in that whole situation:
The war shall be on again someday
Michigan is S+ and Ohio is Z-
As a lifelong Californian, I respect your decision to put California in C tier, and am impressed it even got that high on the list
We really don't like y'all right now 😂
I just like the first comment I see on California in the stream chat is "EWWW A Liberal state." Right after our beloved historian says "No Politics." California is the best meh state in the country.
Try being from new Mexico 🤣🤣🤣 it got an A
@@jakebaca264 New Mexico is pretty cool
I was surprised at the C ranking without context, so I went back to listen to his reasoning.
I can respect the reasoning of "everything in Californa is beautiful, Norcal is nice, Lake Tahoe is nice...not you LA."
The quick switch of Pennsylvania from A to S tier has earned my undying loyalty.
Underrated state
Beautiful state.
PA has all types of terrain except desert, and gets all 4 seasons, and has loads of great history! It's a great state.
Came for Pennsylvania. Stayed for Pennsylvania. At least historians appreciate us
Same with me, a Virginian
Pennsylvania is the goat state
I've been in Pennsylvania my whole life and I agree
Philly and Pittsburgh, both awesome cities!
As a Pennsylvania native.. came here to see what he said.. immediately saw this as the top comment and an watching in anticipation.
As a lifelong Arkansan, you must be crazy to put Arkansas in A. This state is at best a C
I feel Michigan should have been C too.
From Little Rock. When people move to AR from other states, I always ask why. Could NOT imagine choosing to move to AR.
As a lifelong Arkansan I have to disagree. I am surprised he is giving it an A for the south of the little rock area. Wish he would have explored the Ozarks.
Arkansas is beautiful
Just came back from a little weekend getaway at Lake Ouachita. Arkansas always surprises me with its natural beauty.
Hey @VloggingThroughHistory. I'm a former Columbine student. Until recently, I worked with the grandson of Dave Sanders as a coworker. It's good to hear people speaking well of him.
crazy Livestream idea: ranking all 50 u.s state flags lol
Just saying, Ohio has the only pennant 🤷♂️🤷♂️
As a non American, the Californian flag is elite
Do it!
@@gagelochard3731 The Ohio flag is a burgee. Best state flag in the US…imo
The Arizona and Phoenix flags have no right to be as aesthetically amazing as they are
As a Virginian, I’m honored to see where you ranked our awesome state! 😎
As a native New Jersey resident, I knew the second I clicked on this video that you would rank us F tier.
I completely support that decision.
@AntSanz29 I ain't got time to watch the video, what negative points did he make about it? Or why does it stink in general?
I looked for him doing New Jersey. And even though I love my home it was funny to hear him list all the reason Jersey sucks 😂😂
I lived in both for over a decade. New Jersey is better
@@laurikotivuori1585 he gave it an F due to politics when he didn’t want to get into politics…he might be an NJ native 😂
Originally from Canton, Ohio but now live in New Orleans for the last 8 years. As a historian I can’t believe you hadn’t been to New Orleans at the time of this video but I love the channel. Love the unbiased takes that you tend to have in regards to politics. Def subscribed, thanks.
As a New Orleanian, I respect your rating on Louisiana. Stay hydrated when you come down next month. It’s gonna be stupid hot and humid. Much love
"Wilson was born in VA"
We don't talk about that here in VA. We gave ourselves that mulligan.
Look, Maryland produced Spiro Agnew and John Wilkes Booth, there's more than enough shame we don't talk about to go around here
I rode a motorized bicycle 6,000miles around America, rode through 22 states, physically in 19 more. I can't wait to see this episode.
I've lived all over the place. Oregon is probably my favorite place I've ever lived. I think a lot of people based judgement on politics centered around a few blocks in Portland, ignoring the rest of it. Does it have it's issues? Sure. It's not S tier. It is certainly worthy of an A or B, though. There is place for everybody in Oregon. Side note: Oregon is not the Florida of the West. That is clearly Arizona. It's not even close.
Portland and Eugene are the two most densely populated cities which also have some of the dumbest and violent people living there. Oregon's becoming as expensive as California but without any of the jobs. Absolutely trash state.
Always here for your content, I can’t get enough a true honour listening to any type of content you upload
I Wouldn't expect less from someone from Ohio. Stole the Toledo Strip and now stealing the better grade.
- Signed by a Michigander
You can have Toledo.
@@VloggingThroughHistory probably the best answer to that. 😂😂😂
@@VloggingThroughHistory We'll stick with the Upper Peninsula
@@VloggingThroughHistory no no, we dont want it anymore, keep it please
@@VloggingThroughHistory Wait, but I like living in Ohio. Can we please stay?
As a Delawarean I must add: Delaware is the only state with a rounded border! The top part of Delaware was drawn on a map that went out in a circular 10 mile radius from the New Castle Courthouse. Also home to DuPont, one of the most essential manufacturers during WWI and WWII. Home to Perdue Chicken which is still a family-run business to this day and instrumental in revolutionizing how we purchase chicken today. Dover Air Force base in Delaware is where all the soldiers killed overseas come into. The suits worn on Apollo 11 were designed and manufactured in Delaware.
Some not so flattering facts: Delaware was the LAST state to outlaw slavery and we didn't ratify the 13th and 14th amendments until the early 1900s.
I am a die-hard fan of Delaware history and was fortunate enough to take a class dedicated to the history of the state so I would be more than happy to fill in some info! As always, great content, great discussion!
Delaware woo woo! Bob Marley also lived here for a few years and worked at the Chrysler Plant in Newark.
As someone from New York, I'm happily surprised you put us in B tier, and even more happy that you put New Jersey in F.
Shout out from a fellow NEOian. Have lived in Trumbull, Portage, and Geauga. Love the channel
As a lifelong Californian, honestly there's so many reasons for California to be an S tier state, and so many reasons for it to be an F tier state.
When you go to Utah, go to Moab. Just went a few weeks ago and it was beautiful.
Greetings from Evansville.
A few points for Nebraska to balance out the meh's and the tornados:
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium was rated the #1 zoo in the world in 2014, and still frequently shows up within top tens today.
Gallop ranks Nebraska on the Well-Being index as #7 in the US and Lincoln as the #1 city.
Kool-Aid was invented in Nebraska.
Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, and the headquarters of Strategic Air Command throughout the Cold War.
Yeah, can't really think of anything else, really.
Come to Iowa. We have the I80 truck stop, Herbert Hoover, and it’s where the music died.
I’m currently doing an internship at the SLC Family History Library, it is a great place for genealogy work, for sure!
My state of West Virginia gets kicked down at times from outsiders. Its beautiful here, especially in October. Its also very quiet and most of the people I know dont even lock their doors to their houses or cars. Very peaceful place.
Even views of West Virginia from the highway look beautiful and quiet
When I was young I had some football cards and was so happy when one of the Baltimore Ravens players I had a card of was on tv at the 2013(?) super bowl...can’t remember who it was tho
As a member of the Florida council, we do not claim this man as part of the country and disrespectfully deny your ranking of our S Tier state.
25:50 both my Grandpa and my Father are policemen, both agree that 80% of the accedents they covered in Kissimmee & Orlando are from out of state people that are visisting Disney on vacation.
1:23:04 i live in oklahoma and i’ve been to that museum. just hearing you mention it gave me chills. it’s so well put together but also so tragic.
If you ever find yourself in Utah, be sure to visit Temple Square! And check out the daily Organ recitals at 12:00 PM (2 PM Eastern Time).
Fun list. Two of my favorite States got a C from you and other a D lol. Arizona, California, and Oregon. Fair enough. I spent the last 10 years in California before moving back to Arizona where I was born and raised. In various places around the San Francisco area and I absolutely fell in love with the bay area. Lived in a cute coastal town south of SF called Pacifica where my wife and I had an apartment with an Ocean view, which was stunning. A great small feeling coastal town. Then moved east of SF to Walnut Creek which is a super nice green area on the transit line so I took a train and walked to my work in downtown SF (before going fully remote). It's funny, we visited SF for game conferences for work and swore we'd never live there, fun to visit, but not to live. Then I got a job there and were in temp housing inside SF itself for two weeks and completely changed our views. Complete and utter 180. If we could've properly afforded living in a nice SF downtown area would've done it hands down. The food and pub culture there is fantastic, being able to just walk out your apartment complex door and walk down your street to countless amazing food and pub choices. Never thought it'd be something I liked, usually was more (and am now) a suburban sort of person. Though actually living it changed my mind. Still like a more private suburban lifestyle as well but now I get why it's still so insanely expensive for that other lifestyle, it was great for two weeks and the tastes I got when going to work. It's not for everyone but as someone who swore I'd never live in the area but loved the last 10 years there, if my family were there and housing was a bit cheaper It'd be my top pick, I get now why it's so much more expensive than nearly anywhere else. Even with a bit of a lower market recently it's still like 700k+ for a smallish 1/2 bedroom condo in most nice areas. I now understand that even if I ended up going towards a big suburban house in another state, partially due to family. I also lived there while I heard people trash talking it and it baffled me lol.. I mean I took a 40 min train ride into downtown SF and walked 15-20 min deeper in each way, I truly experienced it and it was nothing like nearly any of the negative views I heard people (who mostly never had been there or recently) said, definitely don't trust peoples negative views of places without personal experience (not to say it's perfect and doesn't have downsides of course, but they are highly exaggerated by many people with an alternate agenda and the massive positives are often either not known by those people or way underplayed). Some people are just the people who will find what not to like about a place because it's convenient for their world view. I don't ascribe to that personally and I think every State probably has a lot of great positives to offer.
I lived and worked in Eugene, Oregon for 4 years. Know a lot of people who still live there, around Salem (between Eugene and Portland) and the Portland area. Absolutely loved it. There's nothing quite as magical as the super green moss grown tree filled Oregon forests. Simply stunning. Eugene is a cross between a college town (University of Oregon is there) and a hippy town. Yeah, it's probably even odder in person than it sounds lol. Mostly in a good endearing way though. Super nice people that are so friendly, great culture, great food and get together spots. Super laid back and lots of green in the city. The city combined with the bordering one is somewhere between 300k-400k people but it feels like a 20k smaller city/town. It really is a magical combination of a decent sized city with amenities but truly feels like a small woodsy town with a great endearing culture and people. Heard equally good things about other parts of Oregon too, including further east in places like Bend and despite all the negative perpetuation of Portland I still hear lots of great things there. Another case where you can't trust anyone with an alternate agenda. Oregon is such an amazing place, again another place I would've settled down at if family was there (do have a lot of close friends/former co-workers and ironically when my wife and I moved away an uncle/aunt and 1st cousins that I love moved there, but not my immediate family).
I currently live in Glendale Arizona waiting on a new house build in the far South East of Mesa Arizona. I grew up here in Phoenix (was born in a hospital diagonally across from an old school mall here, Christown) in plenty of areas that weren't the best, but I still enjoyed it. There are some fantastic areas here though (and those areas not considered great still have great people who have a lot of pride in their communities too). Politically and culturally in a lot of ways California and Oregon align better with me, though I don't just a place purely by that (political ideas and culture shifts so I find it's pointless to judge places too much on that, there's more to life than that as well) but there's a sort of moderate individualism I really like here in Arizona. A sort of do your own thing as long as you don't disrupt me. I also love the beauty of the desert, how big and sprawling and flat this metro area here is. It used to be a cheap place, that's unfortunately no longer really a plus, though that just means it's more desirable, lots of recent development in communities, amenities, new industries etc. Really impressed with how it's grown and I think a lot of it in good ways (though there's two sides to everything and honestly my own family would've probably been priced out of the city with where we were at growing up). Since I grew up in the 5th/6th biggest city in the US I don't have that sort of small town/city hometown nostalgia, but there is something about the overall area that after being back a few months I do really enjoy. The heat certainly isn't for everyone and as you point out dry heat is no walk in the part. 115 degrees (which with the current heat wave it's hit multiple times lately) when it's directly on your skin IMHO is worse in dry heat, it not only burns your skin but dries it out. That causes major problems with allergies and dehydration you don't get in super humid places. If you can avoid that and stay indoors it's better than humid heat though.
My family lived 3 years growing up in western Massachusetts (a place called Pitsfield) and I was pretty young so can't judge it much, but I enjoyed it there. I didn't enjoy the snow and I gladly take the blazing heat over the snow, but that's just me.
I too have ancestry in Eastern Kentucky, some of my families from there were Cox, Mahan, Hussey, and Goodwin. My wife and I love the show Justified and she teases me about my roots nearby there. Including Harlan county being named by someone with the surname Harlan who is a cousin of mine through my own Harlan surnamed ancestry from PA.
I've visited a few other States too though would love to visit each State some day. I think they are all great in their own ways and honestly could live in any of them and enjoy it.
Was in the start of the stream and was the one who asked Scotland or England and loved that you read out that Celtic are full of nonces when I asked was buckled when you read that out. S tier TH-camr.
Edit: also very staunch you are a gers fan I’m from Glasgow and we pronounce govan like guvan
Thanks for letting me know the right way to pronounce it!
As a Virginian who has traveled to Florida twice in my life, I love Florida but I acknowledge your opinion about it.
The main reason on why I like Florida a lot is because I’ve been to both Disney and Universal and I gotta say, THERE BOTH AMAZING‼️‼️
I thought Boston was pretty clean when I visited. Granted, I was staying downtown mostly & took an uber everywhere else. I enjoyed my trip there though. I liked the combination of modern & historic buildings. I preferred it over NYC anyway, if I had to visit one again.
Hey I gotta say I really enjoyed this stream.
Just a quick minor correction from a Wisconsinite living in Green Bay. Manitowoc is pronounced (Man-Eh-Toe-Wok).
Keep up the great content man!
I find I hilarious when people mispronounce Wisconsin names.
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You mentioned Warren Harding. One of the places on my bucket list is to go see Teapot Dome in Wyoming to wonder why a weird looking rock was the subject of a big scandal. In all seriousness, this was very entertaining and fun video. I’m from Illinois. Newcomer to your channel and have been bingewatching your Civil War battlefields. Keep up the great work!
I’ve spent 95% of my life in Florida, and I wholeheartedly agree with this ranking
I live in the Historic Triangle of Virginia - Jamestown/Yorktown/Williamsburg. Can't turn around without running into a fort, plantation or NASA. 😂
As a person from Richmond, thank you for your area giving us field trips ever year in History class!
I do love these. Fun to listen to at work
As a native of Arizona yeah it's hot you get adjusted after living there for a while summers are brutal but winters are beautiful down south it's literally the exact opposite in the north except winter means in the north cold enough to have snow not like anywhere up in the northern states.
Great Stream, glad you answered my comments!
Nice West Brom shirt! Wasn't expecting to see you wear that lol
New Jersey, “we don’t like you either”. We kind of embrace the whole “everyone makes fun of us” thing and wear it like a badge of honor. I’m from NJ but I would probably give it a B at best. Hawaii might be my only S, it’s literally paradise. I know it’s expensive there, but hey it’s expensive here in NJ too and it isn’t a freaking tropical paradise.
I love living in NJ bc it’s a unique state with underrated beauty. It’s the politics n some ppl that drag us down.
I am an Arizonan and I have to say that I would put it at B, however C is not a bad spot. I love Arizona and yes we can get insanely hot and humid days it's not just a "Dry" heat here. However, We don't have to worry about Tornados, Earthquakes, or other natural disasters and it's only hot about four months of the year the rest of the year it's beautiful and you can also go two hours north and get 20-30 degrees colder than in the valley during the summer. Besides I think Arizona has one of the coolest state flags. :P
Not giving us S rank because the Broncos kept the Browns from the Superbowl? I can respect that.
This will probably get lost in the comments, but I visited a bunch of my old friends in Watertown just a few weeks ago. Its located right between Madison and Milwaukee, so there was plenty to do.
I hate the drive from Casper to Lander. But that’s because driving in it’s at the end of a 13 hour drive from North Dakota. Really nice when you get there though.
Grand Rapids MN, where the Mississippi seemed so narrow, is the home of Frances Ethel Gumm. You might know her better as Judy Garland.
I was born in and grew up in Texas. I moved to Eugene, Oregon, in January 2019 and have lived here ever since. You should have rated it an S! It is gorgeous here in western Oregon.
Know its not a new video but, MY FAVORITE CHANNEL!!
As a Chickasaw citizen and historian I'm now even more excited to follow your videos after the shout out you gave us in the Oklahoma graded portion.
I LOVED my time with the Chickasaw nation when I was there. Amazing people with a proud heritage.
Minnesotans consider themselves the Midwest, and so do the states immediately to MN's west.
If he considers Wisconsin midwest how would MN not be? Also a great lakes state
The name midwest doesn't make a ton of sense, because that doesn't describe the geographical location of it very well. A more accurate name would be north central, center north, something like that. Wisconsin is considered a midwest state by anyone I've ever heard, it's more about the culture than anything, lots of agriculture, nice/polite people, lots of small towns and people living way out in the country, passionate about sports, etc. I would say Minnesota counts as a midwest state, although in my mind it's not as stereotypically midwest as some others.
I don't consider the Dakotas as midwest states. For me it's the landscape. All the other midwest states are primarily flat, with a lot of prairie and farmland, and some forested hills, but very few rocky formations and actual tall mountains or hills. I feel like the Dakotas having multiple legit mountains and other big rock formations disqualifies them.
@@Connor-dy6wq Minnesota and Wisconsin are very similar in landscape and culture..German immigrants came to both states to farm the land. Also has the friendly "Minnesota nice" reputation although with so many transplanting here it has changed somewhat. Most of North Dakota is flat and Minnesota would probably be more like the northern and southern parts of the state(high hills and valleys) if it weren't for the glaciers. I do agree about South Dakota though. Not very midwestern like. The twin cities area isn't very Midwestern like either but that's a very small area compared to the rest of the state
Also Minnesota would be more sports crazy if we had any good teams that didn't constantly disappoint us lol
@@annemariecronen9096 I probably just don't view Minnesota as very midwestern because the only times I've been there is driving from the Wisconsin side on the giant highways into the twin cities. But yeah Minnesota is for sure midwest. As for North Dakota, I still can't get over the fact that they have tallish mountains/hills with visible rock. Not as many as South Dakota, but they're still there. In the other midwest states the best you can get is a tree covered hill. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, I just feel like North Dakota looks more like a western state than a midwest state.
you having to put don't take me seriously really shows me where we are as a society lol
Sad but true. Yet some people are anyway.
Other than the violence and cold weather, Chicago is one of the greatest cities in the US. The food, the architecture, the history. It’s Gotham City! Then you move down south towards Springfield and the exhibit of Lincoln is phenomenal. Illinois is an S tier state!
A great addition to these 1+ hour videos would be time stamps. Not sure if its easy for you or not. Im assuming you produce and edit completely by yourself. Thank you in advance.
Very cool you work for Rachel’s challenge, my school incorporated it when I was younger. Great program!
NJ isn’t an S tier state, but there’s a few pros to the state. 1) Best pizza in the country, 2) Diversity throughout the city (North Jersey is made up of larger cities and is close to NYC and South Jersey is much more rural and has its charm, 3) The beach!!
Alright, you gotta get out to Western Washington as well at some point. Ride the ferries around the Puget Sound and get out to the penninsula and around Seattle. It's one of the most unique places and absolutely gorgeous. It does not rain as much as people like to gripe about and it's got a very very interesting history and some great museums overall. Definitely worth checking out and I highly recommend.
I came to Seattle from Mumbai. Majority of Seattle rain would be classified as drizzling in Mumbai.
@@tamberlame27 I've lived all over and WA is definitely a drizzle. Since moving back here 5 years ago, it's far dryer than it was when I had moved away too. Our summers we get very little rain, it all mostly comes in the fall and winter
I must admit, I wasn’t expecting an Evansville shoutout… or even Indiana being ranked above a C
Same to be honest
Yeah I was expecting a C, though he did say that Chicagoland is sucky, which... fair lol. As a Chicagoland native, I am pretty happy but Chicago gives us a bad rap so I understand.
Thanks for putting Maine (my homestate) and New York (my birthstate) at B. I would've put them on A or B personally. Also, you should definitely go to Rhode Island, its gorgeous.
Hi! Native Texan here and while I do live outside of San Antonio, Texas, I still consider myself a local due to the fact I was born there, visit the place ALL of the time, have family there (pretty much 90% of my mom's family lives there), and I spent my college years in SA. Anyway, you mentioned that there's not much to do at the Alamo. You'd be right! However, there is still a lot to do in Downtown SA where it's located. There's the Mall, a lot of places to eat, you have the Riverwalk, Hemisphere Park, La Villita, etc. And that's even including all of the city with our theme parks (Six Flags and Sea World), our missions, museums, Morgan's Wonderland, etc. SA is definitely a big touristy city, and we have so many major events (that are slowly returning). And in some of the surrounding counties, you do have other places to see like the Texas Hill Country, which does include New Braunfels, the home of one of America's best waterparks, Schlitterbahn. So while there's little do at the Alamo, there's still plenty to do in SA. I just wasn't sure if you were aware of that. Anyway, I am glad you like Texas. Also I don't blame you for disliking our weather lol. It is crazy hehe. We just get use to it (for the most part).
FYI- "Don't Mess with Texas" is actually a warning about littering. It's why you see that sign while on the road.
Okay okay okay... Nebraska has the second best zoo in the world, offutt air force base where bush went during 9/11, and the college world series. We are also one of two states to give electoral votes based on district not whole state, which in my opinion is more representative
I'm part Chickasaw and hearing you talk about them is super cool. Hope you got the chance to check out the Chickasaw National Cultural Center, it's pretty amazing.
I did...it was an amazing place!
Connecticut isn’t too bad, and my family were the ones who settled the first town which was Windsor. I believe we came over in 1630.
I clicked on the video and it started like halfway through. The very first thing i hear is “Well prostitution is legal in Nevada!”
Great place to start lol
It’s technically illegal in the counties with over 100k people.. so that’s Washoe (Reno), and Clack (LasVegas valley). That means it’s technically illegal in Vegas.. that doesn’t matter, but technically..
I lived there for about 4 years as a kid/young adult. Never had an occasion to break that particular law myself as locals don’t really go to the hell that is the Strip (which is where the tourists and call girl billboards are and whatnot). We actually learned about the nuance of that law in a highschool class called “Nevada History” at the time.
@@nubworthycigars6682 the big joke about that is prostitutes are still there. And if you just drive outside the county limits there are legal brothels. (Lots of family in Reno)
Was expecting my state to be criticized and instead was surprised and happy to hear only wonderful things about it and got an A tier. Thank you
Here is a fun fact, my city of Butte alone supplied the entire country with copper and Butte is known as the richest hill on earth. Some 1920's gangster lifestyles happened here, an explosion that was heard for miles, and a pit full of toxic water. Take a look
Although I'm still disappointed MN wasn't A tier gotta say the live stream was a lot of fun. Love you videos
Come visit us in the Portland area sometime, it'll change your mind. It's genuinely nuts to me how many people across the country think that PDX is a nonstop riot or whatever. (Hasn't stopped the constant influx of people moving here, though). The SE part of the state is a bunch of nothing and not representative at all, of the natrual beauty or of the people.
Fun fact about Oklahoma my home state is that we are the only place in the world that had a land run, basically the government opened the land up for settlement to anyone and each settler was able to claim land for free. The land run days are where the terms Boomer and Sooner come from.
“You can’t pump your own gas in NJ”. Only people outside of NJ think of this as a negative. It’s a huge job creation and a great convenience. We have had the number one public education from Kindergarten to Graduate School for the past few decades. We have beautiful beaches and fun places to visit that are all very close. F tier is objectively ridiculous 🫡
As someone from the area connecting Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky, I am pleased.
A Civil War Generals tier list would be awesome
It seems like a lot of people don't know that Francis Scott Key is from Maryland; I live within walking distance to his burial site. NASA Goddard SFC is located here in Greenbelt, Camp David in the Catoctin Mountains, and PRS guitars. Also great historical sites like Antietam, the C&O canal, and Ft. McHenry. The Inner Harbor has lots of cool museums, and Frederick has a great walkable downtown district. It's a good state with lots of thriving business and history, but often gets overlooked because it isn't the most flashy state. We do have the most flashy flag, though.
As a Tennessean, I’d like to argue that TN can not be blamed for Johnson’s bad presidency
As someone who lives in eastern Kentucky, I can’t agree more with it being S tier 😂. There’s just so much pride being from here and you couldn’t pay me to live anywhere else
5 minutes into the video and I already love this list.
B is totally fair for Washington. One of the most beautiful states in the country but we certainly have homeless and cost of living issues as well as a lack of housing to keep up with the influx from other states. Housing costs are a little ridiculous.
As a Wisconsinite I can confirm Green Bay is essentially just Lambeau Field and a port.
Great ranking man
When you come down to Louisiana, Come down to lafourche parish and I’ll take you around the all the civil war battlefields and points of interest in the area.
If your ranking includes notable people from the state, it should've included Charles Lindberg and F Scott Fitzgerald for Minnesota
Let's gooooo we got A tier! Hoosiers stay winning
Michigander here and the beginning made me laugh! Love it!
The Ravens/Browns rivalry is going be very interesting next year (coming from a ravens fan)
Should've known the Buckeye would put Michigan at the bottom. Would you like to see the corrected, Michigander version lol?
Still love the videos
Loved the stream, any idea when the next stream is gonna be?
As a Michigander I fully agree with what you said about our rankings.
Thank you for your kind comments about Kentucky.
As someone born and raised in Alabama, I can say that Huntsville is an A+ city that happens to be part of an absolute dumpster fire of a state.
Fan from Michigan. I am not surprised 😄😆👍
As a Washintonion I'm just glad you rated us above Oregon
@Craig Rideout I feel like ranking Oregon D tier was purely about politics
Not that far off better. Seattle is like BLM and ANTIFA HQ.
@@patmcclung7205 Why does it matter if politics are involved when you have large groups of people creating riots?
@@lane1313 you say that like BLM is a bad thing, also as someone from Seattle, idk where you're getting your ANTIFA stuff from, not that ANTIFA doesn't exist here, but it's not a problem
@@solinvictus2132 So, you think that getting rid of the inner city police force and setting up an autonomous region (CHAZ) which then saw multiple murders in the first night was not a problem? And yes, the BLM organization is a bad thing. They strategize violent rioting and actually ironically attempt to set up segregation themselves of blacks and whites.
I’m a Native American in New Mexico and I really appreciate how kind you are but everyone I know here just wants to leave lol, fantastic stream as usual though and I would love to see videos about the trail of tears!
Y’know, I was almost a little insulted by Nebraska being at C, with our zoo, airfield, and whatnot…
*until I remembered everywhere west of Lincoln is pretty much the middle of nowhere.*
What's the best thing you can do in Nebraska? Leave!
Before watching, born and raised in Wichita, Ks… Kansas is id say a C or D. The only way you could put it in as a B is that it was arguably the start of the Civil War and is the home of one of the best aviators and one of the best presidents
I got pulled over for speeding leaving Nevada in that down due to the sudden speed limit change on US 95 and being on cruise control, I could see the welcome to Oregon sign, Cop gave me the "you almost made it"
I’ve just found your channel and started binging and was wondering if you had this video 😂
So what I like to do is split the territory as great lake states which would be Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin and West Pennsylvania which is very similar to Ohio & Michigan. An Minnesota, Iowa & Missouri could be added in that group. Northern Missouri atleast. It's really up to you.
I’m from Leeds in the UK and I’ve only been to East Coast states, but New York is my favourite states out of all the ones I’ve visited.
Someone in the chat asked "what's wrong with the Steelers ?'" After this year's postseason, the real question should be " What's not wrong with them ?" Worst 11-0 team ever!
If you look at the West Brom jersey a certain way, you can make the blue part look like a little cartoon body that your head is on top of, with the arms sticking out on either side.
I will watch the entire video this way.
Btw when I went to Utah no questions it is S tier when you go there check out Zion National Park it is just so beautiful. The people are nice and it’s got great weather in the summers especially oh and how dear you put Florida in D tier my home state.