Connecticut - The US Explained
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Connecticut. By area it’s the third smallest state in the entire United States, yet is home to millions of residents. An old and historic state, it’s today a center of the US financial industry. Despite its small size, Connecticut has a unique culture, divided between New England and the New York metro area. Home to a beautiful coastline, densely populated urban areas, as well as plenty of countryside, Connecticut is the fifth place I will talk about in The US Explained, a 56 part series on every state, territory, and federal district in the country, by order of admission.
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The next state up will be Massachusetts. If you're from Massachusetts, please respond to this comment with any information you'd like to include about you're home state!
Carter: I so appreciate your work on these videos. My only concern with the long time between videos was that something happened to prevent you from continuing this ambitious project. The maps are most excellent and I'm sure collecting the photos was time consuming. As a Westerner (west of the Mississippi River), my previous introduction to the Eastern seaboard states was through my 1950-something junior high history class. This brings me up-to-date and more aware of details, especially the indigenous populations.
I’m a Massachusetts native so I have a few fun facts to help you out I’m a real fan of the channel and am excited to see a video on my home state so here are some fun facts: 1: Massachusetts is very liberal and it shapes a lot of thinking in our politics. 2. You’ll probably find this out but cape cod is very popular however Northeastern Massachusetts is also a very popular spot. 3. Central Massachusetts believe it or not has loads of farms and a vibrant farm culture. 4. Western Massachusetts actually has some agriculture and is the place where Shays Rebellion, one of the inspiring events of the US constitution occurred. 5. Don’t forget about the New England town system of government it’s unique in our states.
Oh yea and Johnny Appleseed we love him up here.
I know that Southeastern Mass historically has a large Portuguese population. Whaling was a large part of the economy there. My understanding is that Moby Dick was set in New Bedford, Mass!
Lowell MA was the first planned mill town in the country and the origin of the industrial revolution in the US. Might want to mention that basketball and volleyball were both invented in western MA. I know a lot of keyboard historians will want you to go on about how MA is supposedly super liberal but I think it’s worth mentioning that MA almost always elects Republicans to be governor. Also one last thing: please mention the BIG DIG. Probably the most incredible infrastructure project in all of New England and definitely consequential to modern Boston!
Don't worry about the slow pace of uploading - this high quality is more important: I appreciate it.
As a CT resident, I appreciate the spotlight.
We are a forgotten state. Maybe rightfully so, but I grew up here, and I love it.
Rightfully so? It's better than Florida and the south. People need to get their heads out of their asses
@@schlobberknobber1330 as a ct resident that has never been a very patriotic american i am proud to live in ct
because yes i do think it is better then the south and florida with their literal fascist governor
if ct is forgotten or never talked abt thats okay with me as long as we arent lumped in with states like florida, alabama and texas
Of course y’all making this political in the replies
@@jaykay1899right yo smh
@@oneofthoseyoutubeusers I wouldn't say DeSantis is fascist, he's just kind of an idiot.
I have a weird connection to Connecticut. It was the first state I learned about, being assigned It for my 5th grade geography project. I had just moved to the US from Moldova and settled in California. I didn't know states existed until i had to do a project on Connecticut. This is a good refresher on the state.
I live in Connecticut and I didn't know this much stuff about my state
I have some history books about Connecticut history dating back to the early 1700s in my possession. I was told they are valuable and belong in a museum.
@@nigelmarvin1387 I grew up in Lebanon and then at 12 moved to Hebron. There is a lot of history those towns. General Lafayette and General Washington trained troops on the Lebanon green. I remember the Lions used to have the fair there. Stayed at the Boy Scout camp there name after Count Carol Tacawana. He also taught languages at RHAM. Hebron. has a famous meeting place called Prophets Rock. I moved away a little over 40: years ago. I flew back and forth to there to see a lady 5-6 times a year about 10 years ago.She married me and now lives in Alaska with me.
@@nigelmarvin1387 Where I live now they consider 1935 old.
@@nigelmarvin1387 South Windsor here
@@danielmalkin9787 my sister-in-law used to live in a house that half of it was in S Windsor, if someone called and she was in the other room she was out of town.I flew in and out of Windsor Locks about 5-6 times a year for a few years ten years ago. I grew up in Lebanon on Amston Lake and Hebron in Hope Vally. Moved to Alaska in 79 a few years after I got out of the service.
How to tell if someone isn’t a CT native (from my personal experience as someone born and raised here):
1: They don't call "sub sandwiches" grinders (I've never heard them called grinders outside of CT)
2: They don't call "yard sales" tag sales. (I've never heard them called tag sales outside of CT)
3: They pronounce New Haven with the emphasis on the "New" instead of the "Haven" (NEW-Haven instead of New-HAVen...actually the same goes for basically every town with "New ____" tbh, the emphasis is never on the "New", it's always on the first syllable of the following word, at least that's how it is where I live in CT)
4: They aren't fast talkers and they pronounce their t's in the middle of words (at least in my experience, we tend to use a glottal stop, so words like mountain, mitten, etc, are pronounced without the t's, same with town names like New Britain and Groton, if they don't say New Bri'ain or Gra'in that's also a way to tell)
5: They think everyone who lives in CT is wealthy...personally I hate this stereotype, because in the suburb town that I'm from, there's a lot of poverty and the only wealthy people are in a specific section of the town, everywhere else is your average working class families and even low class families...and that's not even STARTING with the cities and their poverty and crime filled slums...
6: They use the term "coastline" to describe the shoreline.
Fellow CT natives feel free to add on to the list!
It’s a shame the Wyoming Valley or Western Reserve weren’t officially made detached parts of the state, as you’d then be able to call them Disconnecticut
I’m laughing so hard as an connectican
I'd give that a like but can't ruin the "69".
@@kontiuka nice
@@kontiuka It's at 92 now.
@@mirzaahmed6589 Correction. 93 :)
Connecticut's history of being home to some of the largest firearms companies in America is also worth note.
Came to post this as well.
As someone who has made it a point to visit all 169 Connecticut towns, Connecticut is an incredibly special place and unique diverse in both people and landscape. You did a great job putting this video together!
what did you think of danbury
You poor bastard. You dealt with Waterbury and Hartford traffic.
@@torg2126
Rt 84 has been undergoing construction since I remember and I'm 59.
Theres a collection of 4 bridges that are built over each other and go nowhere just east of Hartford.
I ment WEST of Hartford.
How was your Bridgeport experience genuinely curious?
As someone who was born a nutmegger and remained one until the age of 26, solid video. I almost lost my shit when you left Pizza until near the end.
I’ve been a resident of Connecticut for 60 years and I am so impressed with this video. You have done an excellent, excellent job. I was really surprised that you pretty much covered every single base you possibly could have to let everyone know about this special State. Thank you very much. Very impressive research.
I'm an Aussie living in Houston Texas, I have binge watched all of your presentations in the last 2 days I have visited all these states so far, and find The US Explained a no brainer if you need to know all and everything historical, cultural, political and most importantly geographical about these states, Great presentations and thank you, looking forward to the rest of the series.
Connecticut is still not happy about it. We want our notch back!
I like our notch. It is like we are masses naughty little spoon
No way man I grew up right there granby doesn't give a f*** my girlfriend's mother lives in southwick now and she's a lifelong Connecticut person up until recently no one cares about the notch it gives us a little flavor to an otherwise boring border
Wah wah wah ! Get over it already.
The notch makes it easier to find my location during the weather report.
Connecticut I'd boring. The notch is happy in Massachusetts, where it belongs.
Good work on the video from a CT native. I laughed that you knew of the rivalry between Yankees and Red Sox baseball fans in the towns on the dividing line between western and eastern CT. I’m from one of those towns and it’s true, the rivalry could get intense. We had fights on our school playground over it.
Every body saying it is a Boeing state
@@azizjad6315 Washington would be a Boeing state, but I know what you mean.
I am of Italian descent from Bristol. My father and I were more Red Sox fans but ethnicity has something to do with it. Like my great grandparents many Connecticut residents had family who emigrated from Italy to NY thru Ellis Island. Their families often lived in NYC before moving to Connecticut. While in New York they became Yankee fans especially with great Italian American stars like Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra and Phil Rizutto.
Put a ruler on a map of CT laying it from New Haven to Hartford.
East of the line is Sox territory and west is Yankee country.
Very accurate, from someone from CT
What I love about living in CT is it’s close distance to both Boston and New York.
What I can’t stand is the gigantic swings in temperature. If we were just more moderate in our climate, I’d never want to leave. But 6-8 months of cold/cool weather really wears a person down. And then summer, you feel like you’re living on the surface of the sun.
I joke that we only have about 5 nice days a year. Usually one day in May, another one in June, and a couple in September. Other than that it's either freezing, or the humidity means you're swimming through the air.
@@jasonwebb5964 I find mid-May to mid-October very pleasant throughout.
Lake Compounce, which is located in Bristol, is the oldest continuously operating amusement park in the USA
did not know that
Do they still have the Mighty Mouse rollercoaster? I'm pretty sure that was at Lake Compound.
It scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!
@@dubes5594 no that was Quassy lol
I got the name wrong too.
I just watched a video ' The Mad Mouse Quassy. The last dash'.
It's a front seat view riding it before they took it down.
I remember feeling that I was going to get killed when I was 6yrs old. 😬
Shit I'll ride any roller coaster but the Mighty Mouse at Quassy Amusement Park left me with serious PTSD. It just felt extremely unsafe and unstable.
Man I lived in Connecticut for 1 year when I was 12, and I remember it fondly. One of the best years of my life.
My goodness, what happened when you were 12 that was so awesome
@@markrichards6863 nothing much really, but nothing much has happened in the 18 years I've lived either
I've lived her for my whole life bruh
@@hoursonly6348 You should try some place different. Connecticut is BORING.
@@markrichards6863 Welp for me who lives in CT I think it is beautiful and I think every other state is just as good. I am a 9 year old who has been to Chicago. Florida and MA and everyone is equal. I am not trying to start and argument but CT is just as good as any other state. U may not like CT as much as NY, NJ, MA or any other state but I find them equal so no I do not think CT is as boring as you do. BTW if u heard that out of like 42 people going to CT 57 are leaving well I think that is a good thing because CT has taken a beating from climate change and what not but CT is just as beautiful as any other state and yeah my family has been living in CT for 68 years and we have never wanted to leave so I don't think CT is as boring as you think.
Wow, never knew my university was named after Connecticut’s western reserve! Thanks for mentioning us
The Cleaveland Party was from Connecticut.
You should look more into the Connecticut Western Reserve. I grew up in NE Ohio and had no idea how much the area is influenced by New England. Even a lot of our towns are set up in a very New-England style way of town-planning. Most notably, many NE Ohio towns are set up around public common spaces, Village Greens, with the government and church buildings surrounding it.
The headless horseman of Canton,
the black fox of East Haddam,
Lillinoha's leap,
The Windham frog fight,
the escape from New-Gate Prison,
The Swamp Yankees of Thompson,
Israel Putnam (Old Put) killing the last wolf...
Like other places, Connecticut has a lot of good local legends and stories from over the last 300 or so years.
also the melon heads lol
Mystic is not a town. It's simply an unincorporated area that's partially within the city of Groton and the town is Stonington.
MYSTIC DON'T EVEN EXIST 🤣💯🤙
It does have it's own Zip Code however, which was always funny.
@@TheRiddler491 I grew up in Amston which had its own zip code but served the three towns that were around Amston Lake. My first 12 years we lived on lake front property and then moved to one of the other towns. I heard that post office is closed now. I moved to a different state 42 years ago.
@@endinessendiness7842 fax that shi made up
WAMOGO high school is in Litchfield and its name comes from the surrounding towns Warren, Morris, and, Goshen (WaMoGo) - but it's not located in any of those towns. (Long story...)
Totally worth the wait! This is by far the most informative video regarding my state on the platform
Just a couple of notes The City of Bristol, Ct has a couple significant facts: Home of ESPN, the world leader in sports programming , and Lake Compounce, the oldest ,Amusement Park in the USA, opened in 1684
I think it’s 1846
Yessir & aron Hernandez makes oj like a church mouse he didnt mention the brass city .
Basically southington as well.
You mean 1884, not 1684.
1486
This is terrific. Thank you for making this. There are a few significant things that were not mentioned, but as you've only been on a coastal drive through the state, I'm impressed with the amount of research.
Connecticut is another one of those east coast states I don't know much about so it was good to learn some things about it! I was surprised to find that such a small state would have 3.5 million people which is almost as many as my home state of Oregon.
I'm from Connecticut. Nice to see a video about the state for once.
@OOF inc. Glastonbury CT.
@@seymourbutts9085 wait you live in that town ?
@@onion7830 potatoes and carrots...I lived there from 80 to 89
@@seymourbutts9085 I LIVE THERE RIGHT NOW!!!!
I lived there from 53-79 except for 4 years in the military. We lived at Amston Lake and then we lived in Hebron.
Nowhere else in America are there so many pockets of rich and poor so close together as in Connecticut. Very few places in between
Ct is crowded
As usual....that's interesting ....Retired history teacher here..taught for 34 years....I am the following the states as they entered the union. Learned so much new stuff from you Carter....Thanks..thanks...thanks. When I email friends...I have started the habit of including the link for the particular state they live in...It's like a perfect personal gift to them. from me......via you.....And hopefully they will then get curious to learn about the other states...through you..
Thanks for making this. Learned so much about my home state!
Connecticut: border disputes
India and Pakistan: Finally, a worthy opponent
@Luis Trevino South Korea: ahem
Vermont: You merely adopted the border disputes. I was born in it, molded by it.
@@JarthenGreenmeadow NH and ME also had many border disputes. Seems to me it's actually MA with most of the dispute problems lol
Woo us explained is back! Love this series the amount of research and effort is evident and appreciated 👏🏻
I live in the Connecticut river valley. The Connecticut and Quinnipiac rivers flow through a rift valley that formed when this part of North America separated from North Africa. I like learning about geologic features in Connecticut and around the world. I also love visiting Old Wethersfield and other historic places in Connecticut. Truly an incredible place.
I have also loved learning about the google of Connecticut it’s very interesting and I’ve also been learning about native plants and it’s very interesting because Connecticut is a place where some plant species are at the northern extent of their range and there are other species who are at the most southern extent of their range so it adds so much bio diversity and it’s an important area of mixing
Thank you, I' ve lived here in Ct for over 30 years and you have supplied more information about the state than I knew.
So interesting! Very well done. Keep up the quality, don't worry too much about the pace :)
YAY! I've been waiting like a month for this lol. Great job! Like others have said, the audio seemed off in this one; in general your videos would be even better with a louder, clearer voice over. Thanks again for taking your time to read through our input about our great state and putting everything together into this video! :-) I'm excited for Massachusetts!
Carter, you did an excellent job on this documentary. I have lived in Connecticut my whole life and I thoroughly enjoyed all this information you guys provided. At times I thought I was watching PBS. Again Great Job!!
CT born and raised, you really did your research and taught me a few things! Well done
This is the best video coverage of Connecticut I’ve seen. Thank you for the great job. I’d be sure to pass it around. 👍🏽👍🏽up
Keep these videos up man they are amazing
Definitely worth the wait . Thanks for the hard work
I have learned a lot from your YT series since mid-January after Geography King. Thank you for having done a great job on this info. topics. 🌞⭐🌻👍
Dude, you're good on upload schedules, just keep up this A level quality.
I've lived in Connecticut all my life and learned so much about my state! You have a new sub. :)
I’ve lived in CT my whole life in the CT river valley, everything you said is super accurate! Just discovered your channel and I’m really enjoying all the interesting geography facts!
I just love this serie and I'm not even American xD Great job, Carter!
Me to
@ I appreciate it, man, thanks a lot :)
@ I'm from Belgrade, Serbia, dude, and this serie has been awesome so far and I really hope Carter will delivery the rest of it on the same quality (if not better). Have a good one!
Edit: Btw, which state are you from?
Me neither (I'm Italian) but I love this channel and this new series of states videos.
@ thanks mate! 😜
Only just found your channel and appreciate your hard work in making your informative videos available to others.
Lovely informative sharing 👍
Yay! I've been waiting for this one!!!
Great job man! Very interesting
I love your videos and look forward to watching them. Great job! Can’t wait for you to do my home state of Florida.
I'm glad your audio has gotten better and more consistent.
Thank you for your efforts in creating this series. One of the best things I’ve seen on TH-cam. Never sacrifice quality over quantity. Keep up the good work!
Well done, well informed video. Thank you for taking on this in-depth project to go thru each state. I'm especially interested in Oklahoma as I'm researching my heritage, back to OK Territory, thus I have a while to go to get to when you cover this state. I've subscribed today and look forward to each state along the way.
Very good video I enjoyed it . I’m from Connecticut and I Learned a ton of Information that I never knew
I enjoyed watching your video. Very interesting.
Great job!
“You can find many caves in Connecticut, in fact I’m recording in one right now”
Only kiddding! Have watched many later videos and you did a great job fixing the audio, had to come back and watch the video for the state I grew up in and couldn’t pass up the opportunity given CT does have some legendary caves! Keep up the great videos!
I absolutely love how specific you are about the Thames River pronunciation at 11:17
Yes. If you pronounce it like they do in England, you'll definitely get a funny look from people.
I was in Southington recently and heard someone from out of town call it "South-ington". Nobody says it that way.
These are good videos! Keep it up!
Great job! I have been here most of my life and yet I still learned something new about our small state. Currently living in Ledyard near the two casinos.
I want to echo those who say the quality makes up for the slowness of the upload schedule. Your videos are excellent and, even though I'm looking forward to Utah the most, I love learning this info about other states.
The multiple pictures of the Connecticut River is in fact taken in Massachusetts. The University of Massachusetts is clearly visible.
loveeeee this series no cap
Loved the addition of koppen climate maps and highpoints!
I grew up in New London County, but left for Central NY State many years ago. At any rate, as I travelled around different parts of the country, it was pointed out to me that I had a strong regional New England accent. Many people from eastern Ct. do indeed have a very pronounced accent, similar, but not identical, to a Boston type accent. Different from Noo Yawk, New Jersey, and Long Island. They all have their own versions.
Very informative. You can often identify the regionalities of this small state by what TV news channels people are tuning into (NY, Mass or even Rhode Island).
I love this series, great job! :)
Good on facts. Maps collection outstanding
CT is MUCH more than just a fly through state.The coastline is incredible. And the western and eastern sections have beautiful countryside, with the Berkshires in the west and rolling farm country in the east. The cities suck mostly, but the small towns are very well-kept, even more than Massachusetts small towns.
Grew up in Windham County in my formative years; it is indeed very "quiet corner', some areas are still living like a real-life Norman Rockwell painting, boring as a teenager but incredibly beautiful nature and close knit communities; I think about that all the time. Great summary TII!
I grew up in West Hartford CT. We moved to California when I was 13. Really glad I had my childhood there. Beautiful state. Hope to revisit one day.
Great job!!!
I've been to the "high point" on Mount Frissell... It's a bit weird seeing a tiny (literally like 6-in tall) rod sticking out of the rocks along the trail marking the spot. Pretty anticlimactic, but the tri-state stone nearby is definitely worth the trek.
It is anticlimactic that’s why I hike the tallest peak which is Bear Mountain on the Appalachian trail, the view is awesome
Maryland's tallest spot is similar, just a spot on the trail with the peak in West Virginia. Both are really "Well, I guess we did it?" types of climbs.
I learned so much about my own state! 😂 I thought this was well done, especially the historical pieces that are often not even well known by people who live here.
Good video. Pretty much everything important about CT was covered.
This state is expensive but has a lot of beauty! We visited the sleeping Giant State park, gorgeous! And there's many more I wanna check out.
Your videos are great
Love it mate
Whoever told you to call it a "bizza" gave your the correct information. I wish you mentioned colt firearms and Mark twain living here. But I loved the content, great job!
Born and raised in New Haven, you were on point with everything. Our dialects are respectfully different the farther north you go. New Haven is in South Central CT and you can clearly tell when we are out in say Hartford that we are not from there because we tend to talk as they say proper
Excellent job! Was very thorough and well-researched. They should show this in CT classrooms. Irks me when kids don't even know what the Charter Oak was.
They teach a lot of CT history in elementary schools, or take a few days to do that. I remember back in like 2007 or so they taught the class and brought in `historical cosplayers` to teach either the class or the school about facts in CT. Its not as thorough as this video though lmao
@@Hotpotatogal We learned about Chauncey Judd in Naugatuck, a local boy who was kidnapped by Tories during the War and dragged all over Middlebury & Oxford before they were caught in Milford trying to row to Long Island and he was rescued. Not sure if that is still taught in school.
Born and raised in Connecticut, great job creating this video!
Great job
You have great photos in this video.
Connecticut Pride... We'd still be building boats, guns, and otherwise if our government hadn't taxed all the manufacturing out of the state. For that matter, plenty of insurance companies are leaving us too. It's depressing to watch.
I've been there alot, my family was from there. I visited alot and still do by TRAIN. New Haven was home office to the New York, New Haven and Hartford RR. I loved their apple pie!
Great maps! At 24:12 I see my old apartment building
As a native to Connecticut we don't learn much about our state but this video actually taught me a lot!
Great video! It’s pretty accurate too!
Enjoyed informative
BEING FROM CONNECTICUT I LIKE THE VIDEO
same
Finally my state
Yes! I’m from Danbury!
I'm from Willimantic.
I grew up in Lebanon and Hebron. Went in the service saw the world, went back for a few years and left to the far north. That was over 40 years ago. Both those towns have a lot of history. The first governor came from Lebanon. French General Lafayette and General Washington trained there troops together on the Lebanon town green. The war office is still there I think.. Hebron had a well known place where people went to meet. This was used when people travel from far away, even across the ocean. They would meet at a place called Prophets Rock,. it’s off Barrows Hill Rd in a subdivision now. As a kid there was an apple orchard there that I worked at when in 7th and 8th grade. I have some historical books on Ct written in the early 1700s. ,My dad gave them to me and they have been in Alaska for over 40 years now.
@@cooperhilinsky6361 I’m originally from Danbury but now reside outside Phoenix, Arizona
Good Video. Your only large miss was Hartford as a center of abolitionist activity as much as it was a “whaling city”. Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and some other notable culturally important literary giants made Hartford a home for this reason. I’m from Rhode Island & Providence Plantations but, I’ve settled in the northwestern hills of my home state and, due to the Quinnebaug Valley of CT being far more quiet than the Providence suburbs, I’ve been drawn into CT and it’s a lovely state. The Last Green Valley in New England, the Quinnebaug Valley offers as much solitude in nature as Western Massachusetts. You have to love it. Some places are taken for granted. I’m glad my home and surrounding are not.
Thanks for the fine treatment of my home state! Although I have lived here for a long time I learned quite a bit from this! Keep up the good work, I liked and subscribed too! When you do Massachusetts can you address why they have so many bad drivers?
good job man I'm a lifelong Connecticut dude born in New Haven raised in northwest Connecticut live in Middletown (central) now. good job you nailed it oddly I recognized the majority of the photos the one exception I take is the picture of the pizza although yes that looks like it's from Sally's or Pepe's but it's a really random topping selection as a representative New Haven a'pizza
Just wanted to let you know that your audio is a little off in this video.
Thanks for the videos, Massachusetts here, it would be nice to see places and history in places other than Boston.
Because There is also Alot of History On the Western Part of the State and same for the Rest of the State.
“Hopefully this was worth the wait” you’re dang right! This video was epic!!
I used to live in New Britain. Worked at Bosc Kitchen and Wine Bar in Avon. Good Times. Good Video.
Hard hittin raised 🙌🏽
Thanks again for taking the time to do such thorough research and sharing it with us. Research takes time so don't rush too much.