Ask Alabama: Why does Alabama have a little chunk of coastal land?

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  • @tallman11282
    @tallman11282 6 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    The part of Florida under Alabama might as well be Alabama's. It's more like lower Alabama than it is Florida. As someone who grew up in that part of Florida and has also lived in Orlando and visited other parts of the state I can attest that that part of the Panhandle isn't like the rest of the state and is more like Alabama.

    • @jeannabug94
      @jeannabug94 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      tallman11282 agreed

    • @HayTatsuko
      @HayTatsuko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      But then Florida would no longer look like United Statesia's Boomerang, and that would make me super sad. T_T

    • @mr.breeze8796
      @mr.breeze8796 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Tallman,I live in Mobile and visit Pcola alot and you're exactly right

    • @user-rx6km2de4m
      @user-rx6km2de4m 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank God

    • @ezmoney79
      @ezmoney79 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well tallman, you said the part of Florida under Alabama might as well be lower Alabama, uh oh we have another controversy, we'll call it lower Alabama or LA, problem is Las angelos California ppl might have a problem with that lol

  • @DonnyDarko287
    @DonnyDarko287 7 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    I live in mobile it's one of the largest ports in the country.

    • @redcorvette5706
      @redcorvette5706 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      blackmagix100 say hello to Prichard for me

    • @granderondeproductions3286
      @granderondeproductions3286 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Houston has a bigger port! :D

    • @christophermason8151
      @christophermason8151 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      prichard is the reason downtown mobile will never grow into anything more then it already is.

    • @airraverstaz
      @airraverstaz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So does Sledge from the Pacific....or did.

    • @Heligoland360
      @Heligoland360 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I live in Northampton, a small town of 200,000 in the centre of England, one of the farthest areas from the coast in the UK.

  • @Lavender_2115_
    @Lavender_2115_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    "We basically just wanted it, so we took it."
    Basically the origin story of all national borders everywhere.

  • @MrDrmillgram
    @MrDrmillgram 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Culturally the Florida panhandle is lower Alabama. A name people from there use.

  • @teebadd6927
    @teebadd6927 7 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Great video. Love the sense of humor. Awesome explanation too.

  • @erosrodriguez2059
    @erosrodriguez2059 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was insanely clear and honestly educational to a degree you don't see on yt much anymore

  • @okrajoe
    @okrajoe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Fascinating bit of history.

  • @loblg88
    @loblg88 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I live on that "little foot" of Alabama. Lol thanks for explaining my city! thanks to that, We have an awesome beach here in Alabama!

  • @bigfishke7100
    @bigfishke7100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I live in Huntsville Alabama. They call it “The Tennessee valley” feel like it should be called “the Alabama valley “

    • @CarsonMansell
      @CarsonMansell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It's called that because The Tennessee Valley is the drainage basin of the Tennessee River and is largely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from Southwest Kentucky to north Georgia and from Northeast Mississippi to the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. The border of the valley is known as the Tennessee Valley Divide.

    • @bigfishke7100
      @bigfishke7100 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SOA Spitfire thanks

    • @joncheatwood6552
      @joncheatwood6552 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep

  • @jehobden
    @jehobden 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    That "little" patch of land on the Gulf border for Alabama is at least 50 miles long. There are 53 miles of I-10 in Alabama, so I use that as my estimate, and I'm sure Mobile is a great asset to the state.

  • @1973Washu
    @1973Washu 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The old "because I say so and I have a gun" reason.

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This here is some quality content, y'all. Thanks for the well-presented, totally NOT DRY history lesson.

    • @kenperkins7921
      @kenperkins7921 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then you have LOUSEIANA which is the Spitting image of a modern day toilet! LOL

  • @BlueBeluga
    @BlueBeluga 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm surprised you didn't talk about the West Florida, that small area in the panhandle that was an independent country for a short while

    • @demartin975
      @demartin975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      From Baton Rouge all the way to Mobile. It’s why Louisiana has a region called The Florida Parishes.

  • @boedhaspeaks
    @boedhaspeaks 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm from the Netherlands and this was my most educative moment of the day. FML.

  • @kevinerosa
    @kevinerosa 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Anything on I-10 might as well be south Georgia/South Alabama..

    • @demartin975
      @demartin975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Louisiana/Florida has more claim than anyone else.

  • @cobalt2361
    @cobalt2361 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I mean that little bit looks like the perfect place to build a port.

  • @ffggddss
    @ffggddss 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mobile, AL
    And Mississippi has almost as small a bit of Gulf coast, with Biloxi & Gulfport.
    Cause, hey! - Nobody wants to be land-locked, y'know?
    Songs brought to mind by these:
    "Stuck Inside of Mobile" (with the Memphis Blues Again) by Bob Dylan. Album: _Blonde on Blonde_
    "Biloxi" by the late, great Jesse Winchester. (Ian Matthews has a wonderful recording of it, too. Album: _Some Days You Eat the Bear, Some Days the Bear Eats You_ )
    Fred

  • @minyoops2585
    @minyoops2585 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I live in the "boot" of Alabama... it's pretty...

  • @byroncawthon7223
    @byroncawthon7223 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another major reason to have the hangey down part of Alabama is that the river system that drains most of Alabama and parts of Georgia and Mississippi flows into Mobile Bay. Riverboats and barges do not and did not have to cross a state line to get to the port with the export and import cargos.

    • @jollyomeatLA
      @jollyomeatLA 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Byron Cawthon the Mississippi flow in Louisiana

    • @omegamanprivate7132
      @omegamanprivate7132 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well put. The Mobile-Tensaw estuary (not Al's nuts) provides access to a river network covering the state. Not as big as New Orleans and the Mississippi, but big.

    • @angelgjr1999
      @angelgjr1999 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      We should combine Georgia and Alabama together. Just like in the good old days before the revolution.

  • @MaryRodgers-l7h
    @MaryRodgers-l7h 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Outstanding Report!

  • @goldengod5915
    @goldengod5915 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Haven't watched yet, but I'm going to say it had something to do with the Louisiana Purchase.

  • @IAmSamThatIAM
    @IAmSamThatIAM 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    That is fun facts. I know I should be knowing this from history class, but give me a break! I've been out of school like for 25 years now, and this is a great refresher.

  • @mr.breeze8796
    @mr.breeze8796 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I live in Mobile and we have 5 flags on the emblem; England, France, Spain, the US and the Confederacy

  • @demoncore4467
    @demoncore4467 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I always thought it was Alabama’s nuts

  • @wolfofsheeple8719
    @wolfofsheeple8719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Its 2021, the fact that Pensacola, Destin, and Panama City is not part of Alabama should be a crime.

  • @patrolpilot3756
    @patrolpilot3756 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Watching this while sitting on the beach 1/2 mile from the fort that we built to tell Spain to "come get it." Fort Morgan is showing her age, but she's still an intimidating structure.

    • @patrolpilot3756
      @patrolpilot3756 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can see why Spain said, Nevermind.

  • @jeffwang6460
    @jeffwang6460 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wanted to see Alabama and Florida duke it out over the panhandle like Michigan and Ohio did over Toledo.

  • @huntinfishin7816
    @huntinfishin7816 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is what I was hoping for when that show "how the states got their shapes" was on

  • @seanthe100
    @seanthe100 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a Floridian we want it back, Alabama has not right!

  • @Rtr1882
    @Rtr1882 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I live in Alabama and I am a country boy

    • @ShutterBud420
      @ShutterBud420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cringe

    • @Rtr1882
      @Rtr1882 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was young when I made that comment so chill

    • @ShutterBud420
      @ShutterBud420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ScottDossClipz it was only a year ago 😂

    • @ShutterBud420
      @ShutterBud420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Did u suddenly grow up 😂

    • @Rtr1882
      @Rtr1882 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ShutterBud420 it was nearly 2 you know you sometimes complain about TH-cam messing up

  • @edgaradriantorres8564
    @edgaradriantorres8564 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Haha! Think Alabama is weird? Meet DRC, Iraq, Jordan and Bosnia -Herzegovina

    • @Crzserbianguy
      @Crzserbianguy 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Adrian Torres don’t forget Slovenia and Romania

  • @toddnolastname4485
    @toddnolastname4485 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I understand Florida, including the panhandle, belonging to Spain, but I never understood why, when Florida become U.S. territory, why Congress didn't say, if it's south of Alabama, it should be Alabama.

    • @jollyomeatLA
      @jollyomeatLA 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Because the video clearly showed that Alabama was already established. It's literally in the video.

    • @Lukeplaysshuff
      @Lukeplaysshuff 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I kind of understand your point because technically the USA had troops inside of the florida panhandle before Spain sold it, which is something the video doesn't show, so technically the USA owned Florida when this Alabama situation happened, or at the least occupied it.

    • @angelgjr1999
      @angelgjr1999 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Simply because the US didn’t want to deal with the native Americans in Florida... atleast for a while...

    • @TheFranchiseCA
      @TheFranchiseCA 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alabama already had the first-class port and was already a state with its current borders. If there were specific resources they wanted in the area, the state's legislators probably would have made it happen.

    • @unnamedsource746
      @unnamedsource746 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      cuz no one gives a crap about backwoods backward Alabama. That's why... 🤣

  • @erickort1987
    @erickort1987 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    theres some island on a river,its claimed by one state but its zip code is from its neighboring state.

  • @fanndisgoldbraid3183
    @fanndisgoldbraid3183 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Baldwin County is one of the highest income producing counties in the state of Alabama, with beautiful beaches and access to the port of Mobile. And a painful 10% sales tax.

    • @johnblackburn2237
      @johnblackburn2237 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree. My mom's side of the family is from Elberta

    • @unnamedsource746
      @unnamedsource746 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      that doesn't say much for the broke dick state of Alabama. 😂

  • @erkashbee6504
    @erkashbee6504 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for your work work. I live on Dauphin Island AL established by the French who had occupied Canada and thought drawing a line to the Gulf and calling it theirs would teach England not to think it could have the whole continent of North America. Pretty amazing egos, those European kings with wooden boats pushed by the wind, and the guys and gals who carried out their wishes I feel sure would consider us wimps.

  • @NPC_5120
    @NPC_5120 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is where i been spending my late teens to early 20s past few years it's a great place but I always come back to east tn

  • @mikeellis7286
    @mikeellis7286 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My Ancestors use to live their peacefully, until the boats showed up. Most were relocated to Oklahoma. Went down hill ever since. They called it progress.

  • @py8554
    @py8554 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Alabama could have had even more coastline if it took the pleads from the inhabitants of the Florida panhandle to join Alabama seriously and agreed to pay Florida for the area. Instead the Alabama balked at the proposal due to the lack of will to finance the purchase. The building of the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad, completed in 1883, finally linked the Panhandle solidly with the rest of Florida, and the annexation proposal gradually lost support.

  • @bimmerwman
    @bimmerwman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live two counties up from the Alabama Gulf Coast. The best part is that it is the same as Florida only a lot less expensive (for now anyway)

    • @mauser8515
      @mauser8515 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      So you live in Clarke County. A poor ass county with very little commerce and even worse internet coverage. I'm from Washington County, and lived in Clarke for a decade and can say that they hold beautiful lands, but the townships are poor and dying.
      Sure wish Alabama would pull its head from it's ass and build a better internet infrastructure. It would help Alabamians get small businesses off the ground, and provide better education for its youth.

    • @bimmerwman
      @bimmerwman 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mauser8515 Worse..Choctaw county

    • @mauser8515
      @mauser8515 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bimmerwman oh, Lord. hahah
      jk, I don't know if its good or bad to be from Choctaw county.

  • @maxwellhessling7354
    @maxwellhessling7354 6 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    America: We wanted it...we took it.

    • @temiajuwon8893
      @temiajuwon8893 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That's pretty much how the world works.

    • @eveei
      @eveei 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      yeah thats basically nation ever in history

    • @nobrang5146
      @nobrang5146 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maxwell Hessling He said Alabama wanted it and so took it so edit you're comment and switch America to Alabama

    • @MasterofFates
      @MasterofFates 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      No Name Alabama wasn't even a state when they took the land from Spain by placing troops

    • @uhohhotdog
      @uhohhotdog 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      USA USA USA USA USA

  • @recoveringmillennial9695
    @recoveringmillennial9695 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cough we stole it. As a life long resident of Alabama I have to say...yeah makes sense to me.

  • @markofexcellence5209
    @markofexcellence5209 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    No, I've never wondered this. But, now I know about it.

  • @chefboyardee2223
    @chefboyardee2223 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "We wanted it, so we took it"
    Good ol american attitude

  • @VBN59Z
    @VBN59Z 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I LOVE AMERICA! WE OWN THE WORLD AND DO AS WE PLEASE!

    • @doliague2590
      @doliague2590 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love sarcasm too.

  • @jeffcolorado
    @jeffcolorado 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That little bit of land gives Alabama access to the ocean, otherwise they's be landlocked.

  • @foxyjai
    @foxyjai 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The Christopher Columbus effect

  • @therolandx
    @therolandx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Alabama has tried to buy the part of the panhandle south of Alabama that would give it a longer coastline. Florida refused each time. The two did come close in 1869, but Florida backed out.

    • @kenperkins7921
      @kenperkins7921 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You forget that Florida kept trying to sell that land to Alabama but Alabama didn't want it. They said it was just a pile of sand and Jack rabits.

    • @NickCantrell
      @NickCantrell ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kenperkins7921 that's the way I have heard it told as well. The only reason Alabama doesn't own that portion of the panhandle is because they declined it.

  • @rnelson299
    @rnelson299 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Hahaha Spain backs off

  • @djchino774
    @djchino774 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video 👍

  • @satan3200
    @satan3200 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So they can have access to the sea for food and economic reasons? Kind of self explanatory...

  • @markemunson
    @markemunson 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I already knew this, but I was interested on your take anyhow.

  • @dannass555
    @dannass555 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I always thought that was a giant shark bite.

  • @lindalanders5217
    @lindalanders5217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes, before the treaty of 1819 with Spain, the United States annexed the Mobile District, an area from the Pearl River in Mississippi to the Perdido River in Alabama, by military force with no resistance from Spain. ... So Alabama didn't get that pretty coastal land known as the Florida Panhandle.Mar 18, 2015

  • @robhansen6553
    @robhansen6553 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    The video only explains that the US wanted that patch of land leading up to the Perdido River, so they took it. It doesn't really address that maybe Alabama didn't want to be a landlocked state when it was formed, or that it wanted to have access to coastal trade.

  • @firefoxairsoft2281
    @firefoxairsoft2281 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Who actually lives in Alabama

    • @lays4839
      @lays4839 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      FireFox Airsoft me

    • @lays4839
      @lays4839 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      FireFox Airsoft i actually live in that little foot he’s talking about

    • @lucyloo3550
      @lucyloo3550 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Best beaches anywhere. Well except Hawaii...and Cancun...and Belize... Okay well it's a pretty nice beach.

    • @johnblackburn2237
      @johnblackburn2237 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too

    • @dallasmoon9716
      @dallasmoon9716 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I do but more in the middle of the state

  • @nikodemdobrenko3680
    @nikodemdobrenko3680 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    so you have polish heritage? if you have ski at the end of your surname

  • @roybray6542
    @roybray6542 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video!

  • @oabagobaaaoooo
    @oabagobaaaoooo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Spain is like playing world conqueror for the first time

  • @CableReadyTechnoSIut
    @CableReadyTechnoSIut 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Why does Alabama have this little coastline?
    Video;
    “Here’s the entire history of Florida. Also, Alabama has coastline because. The end”
    Lel

    • @MrRT1966
      @MrRT1966 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      CableReadyTechnoSIut The video just explained it! :)

    • @jollyomeatLA
      @jollyomeatLA 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The video literally explains it.

    • @CableReadyTechnoSIut
      @CableReadyTechnoSIut 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      It quite literally doesn’t.
      “We just took it” stuck into the end of the video is an awful explanation lol...
      Who is we? The collective state did not wake up one morning, march down to a beach in Florida, point at the ground and say “this is ours now!”
      When was it decided? Why? How?
      The video explains the goddamn Louisiana purchase, formation of Florida, and at the end just says, then Alabama came along and took the shoreline because “we” wanted it.

    • @duolingobird9244
      @duolingobird9244 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      CableReadyTechnoSIut He does quite literally say it. It used to be part of France's land, which we just took with the purchase of the Louisiana Territory. Since that used to be part of the land France colonized, the US wanted it. And took it. Had nothing to do with any kind of port city, though that is a benefit.

  • @RDTheAwesome
    @RDTheAwesome 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is even in the Florida pan handle?

  • @philprice5712
    @philprice5712 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    a better question would be why does FL have coastline under GA and AL?

  • @brittanychristian4846
    @brittanychristian4846 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Growing up in Pensacola we always called it Upper Class Lower Alabama, A.K.A. UCLA.

  • @goodstuff8156
    @goodstuff8156 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder why Mississippi has a similar little panhandle coastline right next to Alabama’s panhandle coastline.

  • @jeronwhite3113
    @jeronwhite3113 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mobile Alabama here, And I’ll say this us as a gulfcoast respect one another because during tropical storms and hurricanes we’re all in this together not only florida, but Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas we’re all apart of the gulfcoast as a whole so we never really cared about the pan handle, being apart of us we don’t mind it lol because hell to be honest also the state Mississippi and the state of Alabama looks exactly like we’re standing back to back their shape is almost identical. Each city and state respects one another from us having great seafood here in the gulfcoast, beaches in bama, Biloxi and p cola, to New Orleans and mobile having Mardi Gras and both New Orleans and mobile being French cities because mobile was the capital of Louisiana

  • @misscaptainlily
    @misscaptainlily 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful

  • @jutycus
    @jutycus 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    A while back, a show on History Channel called "How the States Got Their Shapes" said that Alabama and Mississippi both have that notch because when those state lines were being drawn, they wanted to give both states access to the gulf, so they gave both states that notch. I am going to research to verify which is correct. Either way, it's interesting.

    • @demartin975
      @demartin975 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And Louisiana got left with literally the shittiest gulf coastline of all. When originally, Louisiana bordered Florida.

  • @grisseldog
    @grisseldog 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting
    Didn’t know this

  • @goodtutt4733
    @goodtutt4733 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why the musical noise on this video? Who decided to include it? Why?

  • @hazerod833
    @hazerod833 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live in the right little “leg” of Alabama and let’s just say that that’s the better one

  • @lucyloo3550
    @lucyloo3550 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please tell me there won't be a test on this.

  • @candyazz28
    @candyazz28 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    And that's why military force is great.

  • @chuckbrooks3674
    @chuckbrooks3674 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Informative and hilarious

  • @johnpaulsylvester3727
    @johnpaulsylvester3727 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I wouldn’t be opposed to expanding Alabama’s territory to the Apalachicola... Who wants to start an interstate war?

    • @lenblack1462
      @lenblack1462 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      You couldn't win, we're a much larger state.

    • @Tuning_Spork
      @Tuning_Spork 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yeah, but you're mainly retired college kids on spring break dressed up as Disney characters. I think 'Bama has a fighting chance.

    • @angelgjr1999
      @angelgjr1999 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Georgia deserves more coastal land!

    • @XFizzlepop-Berrytwist
      @XFizzlepop-Berrytwist 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      *from Missouri, no coastal land to speak of.*

    • @SeekerofWisdom1111
      @SeekerofWisdom1111 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alabama should have the land west of the Apalachicola, because that would make Florida a blue state. ; )

  • @gavenhicks4035
    @gavenhicks4035 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Legit I’m from Alabama and I’ve never thought about why we have this little foot at the bottom.

  • @crystalnavarro757
    @crystalnavarro757 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    AWESOME VIDEO!!😂

    • @cupcakes7015
      @cupcakes7015 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Crystal Navarro ❤
      5/1/19

  • @gregbernstein6430
    @gregbernstein6430 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn! We need something!

  • @MicroManlet
    @MicroManlet 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's not England, it's the United Kingdom. Stating England means you're only referring to one of the 4 nations in the Union

    • @rubbishrabble
      @rubbishrabble 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Back then Australia, Canada, etc. were part of one of the empires where the sun never sets. Most nations with 18th century colonies still own bits of land outside of the continent of Europe.

  • @DrSleepVC
    @DrSleepVC 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think a better explanation would have been “why were the state borders defined that way”. This video didn’t really explain much.
    The most likely answer is that when they formed the states, some deals went through and Alabama just made sure they would have coastal access for the sake of trading.

  • @phicks5956
    @phicks5956 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Check out Dalphin Island's history.

  • @ivang3021
    @ivang3021 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sweet home Alabama

  • @subscribefornoreason551
    @subscribefornoreason551 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    My math teacher is from Alabama she has the most stereotypical southern accent that you could imagine is so funny when she says y’all better bla bla bla

    • @floorsinbower8612
      @floorsinbower8612 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      _Random Dog_ and people like you need shouldn't exist. Yankees that is

    • @R3dp055um
      @R3dp055um 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @floorsin
      Little harsh there, bro. I mean, Bobby Lee handed over his sword at Appomattox courthouse 150 years ago and a bit. It might be almost time to *think about* maybe starting to get over it, eh?

    • @elli003
      @elli003 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @ Random Dog - Lucky you. You get to learn math and perhaps some social development skills too. I'll bet that teacher from Alabama is really nice and most importantly - respectful to her students !

    • @rogerpack5712
      @rogerpack5712 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Random Dog:There is no such thing as a stereotypical southern accent.There are eleven different southern accents.Even south Alabama and north Alabama have different accents.If your teacher is from Alabama you will at least learn something better than common core.

    • @jacobrodricson1554
      @jacobrodricson1554 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yaeh well i'm from mississippi living in fargo ND a northerns voice is like nails on a chaulkboard agonizng not funny

  • @christianpate7786
    @christianpate7786 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's a very long story *we stole it*

  • @voilin
    @voilin 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've lived in Alabama for 25 years, be sure guys that this chunk has a trading and economical purpose. We import slaves through it.

  • @adamorick2872
    @adamorick2872 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    To give Alabama a port

  • @matthewgillespie2835
    @matthewgillespie2835 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Good explanation

  • @mmlindsey8635
    @mmlindsey8635 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    NOW I KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE STATE LINE IT'S A GIVE R TAKE SITUATION

  • @David.D3
    @David.D3 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I learned more about Spain and France then I did Alabama

  • @billgrandone3552
    @billgrandone3552 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    No, it'd not complicated. The people there had a choice of joining Alabama or drowning themselves in the Gulf of Mexico. They chose drowning and the Alabamians share cropped the land.

  • @LilMacMusic
    @LilMacMusic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So it was kinda the same situation with Mississippi. That’s why they’re the twin states

    • @rickwillingham1421
      @rickwillingham1421 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mississippi and Alabama was the Mississippi Territory at one time.

    • @LilMacMusic
      @LilMacMusic 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rickwillingham1421 i dont remember making this comment lol

  • @jackgodfrey667
    @jackgodfrey667 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    you missed so much history florida tried to sell the panhandle multiple times even during the 20th century; i know i descend from confederates, fam been here since 1860s in the panhandle, and folks originally from pike county AL from Blountstown Carolina; not to mention West Florida Republic witht he bonnie Blue flag babbbby!

  • @tomhoffman7399
    @tomhoffman7399 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Always knew the Alabama Gulf Coast had a chequered past, but it's worse than I thought . . .

    • @deusvult9704
      @deusvult9704 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tom Hoffman That little stretch of land proved to be very valuable with the port of Mobile, who built US warships through as late as ww2, what the video didn't ell you is that people of Mobile and in this stretch of land wanted to be part of the US because of the taxes the Spanish were imposing on them. Same with Florida which is why they kept fighting the Spanish despite losing constantly. Essentially Spain lost theses lands because they could not afford to sustain and tax them. Pretty much the same thing with Central and South America.

    • @bcubed72
      @bcubed72 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey, let's play chequeres!

  • @FoxyPercival714
    @FoxyPercival714 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Well why does FLORIDA have that huge chunk?

    • @SWalker71
      @SWalker71 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      He clearly told you in the video. At the end.

    • @demartin975
      @demartin975 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s always been Florida from the beginning. If anything, Florida lost land if you include West Florida which was kinda a different thing tho.

  • @sterlingprice5963
    @sterlingprice5963 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's like the Bootheel of Missouri, that sticks down into Arkansas. A long time ago the Bootheel didn't exist, but was just part of Arkansas. A wealthy powerful politician who lived in that part of Arkansas decided he wanted to live in Missouri because he though Missouri would be a powerful state because of the how many big rivers all met in MO. So, this politician used his power with Congress to have the state line redrawn, including the Bootheel for Missouri, thus making him and his district in Missouri.

  • @GavinGroth
    @GavinGroth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The real question is why does Florida have that long ass strip.

  • @everbeltran8417
    @everbeltran8417 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Spain didn’t give Louisiana back to France until around 1802.

  • @timothyrice1621
    @timothyrice1621 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video is incomplete. By the end of the video, all that is explained is why America owns the land that is now AL's costal panhandle. It should've explained why that land was included in the state of AL when it was formed.

  • @happymilk7433
    @happymilk7433 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Because it looks nice

  • @goodstuff8156
    @goodstuff8156 ปีที่แล้ว

    There’s a county in western Florida call Dixie, it’s not even in the heart of north western Florida it’s off to the side.

  • @chad1316
    @chad1316 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    America is the "greatest country in the world"

  • @aryehyehudahajzenberg9503
    @aryehyehudahajzenberg9503 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I liked a lot !!!