Brit Reacts to These 15 Maps Hilariously Explain the United States of America 

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"Where's all the UK prisoners?" Uh... You sent them all to Australia remember?

Meth labs are actually anywhere meth is made, not real labs.

20:02 that area with not many tornadoes is part of the Appalachian mountain range. Like he said tornadoes dont like mountains haha

It is still true that money doesn’t buy happiness, but on the other hand, lack of money causes sadness

*Yes, a lot of companies give* (often very generous) *PAID maternity leave* (as an added benefit to working at the company, even to new dads), *BUT it is NOT GOVERNMENT MANDATED or FUNDED.* If NOT, you'd have to use sick leave, or no pay.

Upward mobility is the possibilty of growing from a lower financial situation to a higher one.

Upward mobility is difficult for Brits to understand lol. Its basically the ability to move from a lower class income bracket to a higher class income bracket. Like if you are born into poverty, the states with high upward mobility have the highest chance of getting out of poverty. On another note, I find if interesting that the happy states have more bars than grocery stores lol. Also the map with the 'brands a state is most known for' isn't the right description, its the most known brand that originated in that state.

"What is upward mobility?" - probably the most british thing I have ever heard.

as for school cancellations for snow, it might seem pretty minor but if your region doesn't get snow, it doesn't have the equipment to carry on operating despite the snow

The "no paternity leave" thing is complicated. The federal government doesn't fund paid leave for non government employees, that responsibility falls under either the state you live in or the company you work for. This makes employers with better benefits more desirable. The company i work for gives 8 paid weeks for new mothers and 4 paid weeks for new fathers.

The "No parental leave" map is very misleading. There is no paid parental leave at a federal level, but there is a mandate of 12 weeks of unpaid leave for any company over 50 employees. 13 states currently require paid parental leave in some capacity. Most large companies also offer paid leave.

I was in the military. I did get paid maternity leave. However, I'd had a c-section and was required to report back to active duty at 4 weeks, but I wasn't released by the doctors until 6 weeks. Figure the odds.

As a proud bartender in Louisiana, I would like to clarify that first map. The difference between a bar and a restaurant is that a restaurant will sell at least 51% of the food. Most restaurants qualify as bars by most standards except legally down here. Also, almost any business that sells consumables will sell alcohol.

I got six weeks paid maternity leave, I also used several weeks of paid vacation time. There is no national law requiring paid maternity leave, but many states require paid leave and many companies offer it without being legally required to.

I think missed connections are more for people who actually interacted. Like "i fell on my bike in front of X store on tuesday. You helped me up asked if i was ok, and we chatted a bit before we parted ways. I keep thinking about you and i regret not asking for your number. "

In the US, we do not have a nation-wide paid maternity/paternity leave. I think there are around 11 states that offer some sort of leave, typically 4-8 weeks of leave, though we are not always paid at 100% of our current salary. All state programs are funded through employee-paid payroll taxes, and some are also partially funded by employer-paid payroll taxes. If we don’t live in one of these 11 states, we have to be lucky enough to work for a company that offers maternity leave.

That spot with no tornadoes are more mountains.

SAKS (5th Avenue) is a high end department store. The empty space on the east side of the U.S. map for tornadoes is the Appalachian mountains. Upward mobility map means basically you have a certain percentage in each area to start "poor", but end up "rich".

To explain congressional districts: Members are elected from the states to the House of Representatives based on population. Each state divides itself (every 10 years after the census) into districts according to the number of representatives that state can send to Congress. By drawing the boundaries of the districts along demographic lines and voting patterns, a state (whichever officials happen to be in power at the time) can "rig the system" to make sure that an elected representative will be of a certain party. This dishonest practice is called "gerrymandering". It's used not only for federal representation, but for state, county and local elections as well.

Snow days happening for almost no snow in the south is because we don't have the infrastructure to clear the roads. Our cars, buses, and other transportation services are not set up for snow. We don't have snow chains. We don't have the salt trucks and plows to clear the snow and ice. The roads are not safe with the tiniest bit of snow or ice. So, we just have to shut it down.

For the amount of snow to cancel school, here in Wisconsin it can snow 2 feet and 2 hours later the whole city will be plowed, salted and sanded and the roads are perfectly fine. Down in the south the roads will be covered in ice from a single inch of snow and no one has snow tires so it would actually be kind of tough to drive.

Mind you, they do sell alcohol in the grocery stores

15:23 There are two types of gerrymandering. This is an example of "packing" where you push a large group of people together, so they only get one representative instead of two or more. The other type splits up a group of people so they don't get any representatives.

9:44 “Pittsburgh has money?” DAMN, that was low key savage! 10:32 It’s important to understand that situation regarding “no maternal paid leave” does NOT mean that new mothers (and fathers) do not get paid leave. It simply means that there is no federally (I.e. nationwide government) mandated minimum regarding paid parental leave. Mothers and fathers can and often DO get paid leave! In fact, at my company (it’s the only situation I’m familiar with), new parents (both birth and adoptive) get 12 full weeks paid that can be taken at any time throughout the first year. Things vary because a lot of issues are different from state to state.

A public employee is a government funded employee, so most of the highest paid employees are coaches at state universities. These coaches often make millions.

Paid maternity leave is up to each employer. Plenty of companies do, but it is not mandatory.

😂😂😂😂 Why is Texas so happy? Because I live there and entertain everyone who comes within the sound of my voice. I had 4 brothers growing up so I learned to talk louder than the crowd! And I make people laugh. I have been this way since I was 4 years old. My first memory of making people laugh was when I crawled under the pews of my southern Baptist church, stood up and belted out the words of this song: Old Stewball was a race horse and I wish he were mine. He never drank water. He only drank wine.... I knew it was inappropriate and I knew my mom was gonna spank my butt....but old ladies gasped.... Old men laughed... everyone else applauded... The butt whoopin' was so worth it.

You asked "They don't pay leave for new moms? What do you do?" Me "Go back a few frames to that graph about the growing gap between the upper class and lower class."

Craigslist is the American version of Gumtree. It’s how I found my current apartment and how I’m buying my next car. It happens to have “community” features that basically nobody uses because they’re so weird.

In the south, when it snows, the roads turn to a sheet of ice that is impossible to drive on. During the day, the temperatures are above freezing, and then at night, the temperatures drop below freezing, causing very dangerous driving conditions.

"What's with the grey? No bars or grocery stores?" Correct, leading scientists call that region "the desert."

Draconian. The word is draconian. The punishment is worse than the crime.

20:10 That's a large chunk of the Appalachian Mountain range. And yeah, tornados don't like mountains. Not so fond of hills either, which is why moved to the side of one lol. It's kinda fun to sit on the porch with a beer or coffee and watch a storm front dissipate when it's trying to move up the hillsides.

15:22 - It's called gerrymandering. It should be illegal but it isn't in most places. Where it is legal, it's a way to increase odds that a particular political party will be the majority for an area. Each side accuses the other of using the practice to gain or stay in power.

WA state actually has paid leave for moms, 12 weeks off or 16 if you combine it with your medical leave. During Covid, I didn't qualify for my stimulus check because I took maternity leave and didnt have enough working weeks in the previous year to qualify... such bs

Did anyone else notice any similarities of the More Bars than Grocery Stores and the Happiest States Maps?

Money can't buy happiness but poverty gets misery for free.

Unless I have misunderstood this, in england a "public" school is paid by parents and it is $$$ posh for anyone able and willing to pay. On the other hand a "state" school is something you go to because you live there. In America, the terminology is "private" meaning it is paid for privately and "public" meaning it is paid for by public funds. We use the same terms private/public to refer to the funding source. Walmart is private. Courts are public. Some hospitals are private while others are public.

We are not guaranteed paid leave, but companies that employ 50+ people are required to allow 12 weeks unpaid leave to their full time employees who’ve put in a minimum number of hours of work. I think it equals about a year. That’s federally guaranteed. Many places carry short term disability insurance for their employees to take up to 6 weeks at 60% of their salary, but that’s company by company, and doesn’t cover everyone. New parents usually have to cash in sick or vacation time or not get paid during the first weeks of their baby’s life. And often we go back to work long before we should as a result.

Anyone else notice the happiness map lined up perfectly with the more bars than restaurants map😂

I can confirm the Midwest does drink A LOT! But to be fair, it may coincide with the brutally cold weather that lasts half the year. 😂🤣

Data analyst here, and I immediately had an issue with the first map. :) Remember kids, correlation is not necessarily causation. What would have been a BETTER stat would be bars per capita (instead of compared to grocery stores). The map COULD also indicate that there are fewer (but larger) grocery stores in the north or more and varied grocery stores in the south (think like standard grocery, Mexican grocery, Korean grocery, etc.). It also could simply be that people in the south drink from their couch sourced from liquor stores (or bathtubs) instead of going to a bars. The map also doesn't indicate VOLUME. If you have ten bars that only get ten patrons each, that is still outdone by 4 bars that have a 200 headcount each night. Maybe that map more shows that the north just cares more about who they sit next to when they drink. (But I'm just messing around mostly to make the point. WI is heavily German and Polish in ancestry, so yeah... drinking IS a thing... it's just a thing everywhere and the count of bars is a poor measure). Also overlay some of those maps for some thoughts on happiness, drinking, snow, etc. (Could we say that snow makes people happy? Makes them need to drink? Probably not, but you'd be forgiven for thinking so...) Also also 'public employee' means 'paid by the government'. In most of those cases, they were coaches at state schools, which are funded by state taxes, so government-employee.

Not me sitting here yelling out the answers to your questions as I watch this video 😂😂

Upward mobility is moving up on the income scale. This usually has the additional results of expanding one's social circles (being able to participate in more expensive recreational activities & social clubs) and educational opportunities for one's self and one's family..

Your assessment of how snow days work in the south is spot on. It's total chaos. Doesn't even really have to snow. If we think the roads are too wet for the temperature it's almost a total lockdown. It is because of the warmer climate, and we do not have the salt trucks and de-icing infrastructure of the northern states that have to live with massive amounts of snow for half of the year.

I've never heard of the missed connection sight. That is just creepy.

South park something wallmart comes this way is a freaking awsome episode kinda humorously description of the wallmart epidemic

Down in the south, we don't have the infrastructure to deal with snow. There was a mild snow storm a few years back, but we didn't handle it well, and the roads got icy. Some people were stuck in their cars trying to get home for over 18 hours. I think someone had a baby in a car! We just don't dedicate money to keeping roads from icing over, so we have to cancel school.

When it comes to things like paid maternity/paternity/bonding leave, paid vacation, paid sick days, etc., it is very common for the US to be listed as "none" or "0". But keep in mind that most of these kinds of lists are looking solely at mandated minimums by national law for everyone regardless of job. They often do not account for mandated minimums by state or local laws, mandated minimums by union contracts, or generally accepted minimums by individual industry standards. In other words, is just means that the US federal government does not guarantee any such minimums; not that companies don't have minimums they need to abide by. Also keep in mind we are talking specifically about "paid" leave. The federal government does mandate 12 weeks of unpaid leave.

20:05 Appalachian Mountain Range. Torandos have trouble maintaining their form going over mountains.

Fun fact: in Tennessee we don't cancel schools when it snows because it's rare, we canceled because we are in a mountainous area. We actually get quite a bit of snow but it is easy for the roads to become very slippery in those conditions and unfit for buses. I have known several times when there has been hardly any snow but school has still been canceled because the mountains have it piled high.

i know for a fact, new moms can get leave from social security if the pregnancy causes a temporary disability, i got paid for 3 months, while recuperating after a cesarean. but we applied months in advance.

As someone who lives near St. Louis the meth labs map was not surprising 🙃 Also meth labs aren't actual labs, it's usually made in houses, garages, sheds, and abandoned buildings.

Craigslist is not just for meetups. It's essentially a giant classified ad section. Most people on there are looking for renters or selling objects they don't want anymore.

Green on the no one lives here map is where we have immense mountain ranges and difficult to get to land. The weather plays a big part in a lot of the area especially in Alaska. Quarantine searches: Wyoming = hot wings. Colorado = stop drinking.

your employer often covers if they are good, but they aren't forced to give you leave.

That giant red blob of bars is my state. Wisconsin. There are indeed a ass-load of bars. In the dead of winter there's not a lot to do, except drink. One year, back in the 90s, University here had the college team go to the Rose Bowl (in Cali). Massive amount of fans traveled out there for the game. They were not prepared. Literally drank the stadium dry of beer.

Death penalty works if you use it. Thing is we have the death penalty but almost never carry it out.

Others have said this, but I’ll say it again. Paternity/Maternity leave is not Government mandated in the US. That doesn’t mean we don’t get any. Generally speaking paid parental leave is negotiated as part of the employment contract. Most large companies who want to attract specific people for career-long opportunities will offer parental leave, while part time jobs just looking for any desperate schmuck they can find for as cheap as possible won’t offer it (I’m talking about McDonalds, Walmart, etc.). This is similar to the discussion that was scored up by a recent video you watched which discussed healthcare in the US…. Most people have healthcare, it’s just that it’s provided by our employers and considered a perk of employment rather than a government-provided or government-mandated service. I wanted to address 15:00 since nobody else seems to be explaining this to you in any meaningful way. So our form of democracy means we elect a representative who represents our group of people (or “district”) to whichever government they are elected to (Federal/State/County/City). Those representatives are the ones who actually vote on policy or law changes at the government level, and hopefully they properly represent the interests of the majority of their constituents. Now every ten years we hold a census, and based upon the results of the census the government representatives are able to redraw the district maps. In theory they’re supposed to redraw them to make sure that the population and demographics are represented equally, however in practice the representatives will often redraw the maps in a manner which will benefit themselves and/or their political party. And like you see in the map shown, they can get pretty wild with how they accomplish this. Simply put, when they’re gerrymandering the districts the representatives are choosing their voters, rather than letting the voters choose their representatives. Now technically gerrymandering is illegal, but the fox is the one guarding the henhouse so they don’t usually call themselves on their BS. There are advocacy groups who will identify gerrymandered districts and will sue to get the districts redrawn, sometimes with success, other times without, and often times what happens is Judge: “These maps are gerrymandered. You have to redraw them.” Representative: “We’ll get right on that!” *Three months later* Judge: “Have you redrawn the maps?” Representative: “Naah, we haven’t had the time, and it’s too close to the next election to do it now.” Judge: “OK, you can use the gerrymandered maps for this election and then you must change them afterward!” Representative: “We’ll get right on that!” And of course we can’t change the laws regarding how the district maps are drawn because the people who have the power to change the laws are the same people who have gerrymandered the maps to begin with, and thus are the people who most benefit from the laws that are in place now, so they have no incentive to change those laws.

Never heard of the "stalker" website, but them again I'm in my late 60's.

The map with all the brands is showing where the companies originated/head quarters locations. Like Bank of America is headquartered in Charlotte, NC. Denny’s is in Spartanburg, SC. Walmart started in Arkansas. Dr. Pepper in Waco, TX. Coke in Atlanta, Georgia. Etc.

[Edited] States Rights are a Constitutional certainty in America. Therefore, there will likely never be an instance of America having the same National laws and programs that other (usually smaller) countries have. Which is why it's best to think of America the same way you'd think of Europe -- each country has it's own laws and rules. So does each State in America. This applies to just about everything, including laws, social norms, languages and population breakdown, public policies, education, maternity leave, medical services and payment options, wealth, etc. We keep trying to get Europeans (and others, even many Americans) to understand this, but, it seems it's easier for them to just lump everyone together and then dump on Us. This maps in the video is like "parlay” in Pirates of the Caribbean, it's more a guideline than a fixed point of singular truth. There were a few things mentioned that are not the case anymore because of various shifts. Anyway, just thought I'd bring that up for consideration. PS. Don't know what the British article says, but America didn't have paid maternity leave because We were rich and many American men made enough for their wives to be able to stay home and take care of the house and children. Some wives worked side gigs for a variety of reasons, but most women stayed home voluntarily to be stay-at-home wives and mothers. And when many women didn't want to do that anymore, they got jobs, usually after the kids started school. As the divorce rates climbed, women went back to work and school even before then. In short, paid maternity leave wasn't needed prior to this era because women weren't in the workplace and men don't get pregnant, so Why would it be offered to them? Men Did have vacation time to be used when the new baby arrived. But, since female family members generally stepped in, the men would go back to work after a short time at home

The thing about snow days in the South is that it's not about the snow, it's about the black ice. Down here, it doesn't get as cold, so the snow melts during the day, then refreezes into clear ice on the roads overnight.

In a government “by the people” a public employee is paid by the government. It isn’t a position of governmental authority; that’s a bureaucrat.

In the South there are often “dry”counties. No alcohol is sold there. Doesn’t you can’t drink it, it’s just not sold there. In Virginia, there was a law banning bars. Didn’t mean there weren’t places you could drink, just the word “bar@ or “pub” wasn’t allowed. And the place selling booze had to sell food. At one time, 60 %of sales had to be from food.

14:45 Gerrymandering is like drawing lines on a map to decide which voters get to vote where, in a way that helps one team win more games. Imagine trying to win a board game by changing the rules so you always have an advantage. That's what happens in elections with gerrymandering: the lines are drawn to give one party a better chance of winning more seats, even if they don't get the most votes overall.

23:28 I’m from Indiana, “At Home” is like a decor/ furniture and appliances store. I think it used to be called Homegoods then they got rebranded

They cancel a lot of school in Kentucky for snow. We don't get enough snow for them to invest in snow plows in Kentucky. They use big trucks with blades, sometimes large road graders to clean the roads.

2:25 "Meth, Like What Drug Dealers Sell?" Yeah, that's exactly what he's saying, Lewis

23:32 Lol I think they're talking about the furniture store called At Home

Upward mobility: ability to move up in regards to economic classes. Eg: poor -> wealthy

the gerrymandering map is to put people who will vote a specific way into one district so that there is a higher chance of other candidates winning in other districts, like if you have 70 donkeys and 50 elephants and you put 40 donkeys into one district then put 15 donkeys and 25 elephants in the other two districts the elephants would win 2/3rds of the seats despite only having 40 some percent of the total voting power.

@4:39 Public employee means employed by the state. So the coaches of sports teams at big Universities usually make a lot of money. Rhode Island College, University of Rhode Island are 2 of the BIG state schools here. Providence College, or Bryant University aren't public schools in my state but are private colleges.

I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and we lived for snow days. When my sister got married, her husband said he hated the snow, they moved to Georgia and then Florida. The first year they were in Florida it snowed. We laughed and laughed!

Bro, no joke. When I was stationed in Texas, it started to snow, but it was melting the moment it touched ground. They literally shut the whole state down. Even on base they told us to go home for the day.

I grew up in Missouri. Meth is a real epidemic. I've lost friends, seen co workers escorted from work, neighbors arrested. It was normal to hear about drug busts in rural Missouri

"Money does not bring happiness." This is a phrase that was coined by rich people to explain to poor people why they shouldn't worry so much about being poor. It may or may not bring happiness, but it sure does remove obstacles to it.

The West is so "Wild" and Tornadoes skip that large chunk of land out East because of Mountains.

My niece just had a baby & she gets 6 months paid leave while her husband gets 2 months.

Glad to see the big red C for brands in Indiana!

Born and raised in Alabama! And it iced over for two days and I didn’t have school for four days… like no snow.. just ice

One reason you'll find fewer bars in the South is independent production of alcoholic beverages. There also wasn't nearly as much immigration from other nations in the South, so you didn't have a Polish bar down the street from the Irish pub which is across the lane from the German bar. So one communal watering hole served an entire area.

FEPLA is paid parental leave (12weeks) for federal employees. While not required, most businesses do provide maternal leave and some provide paternal leave.

The Gray is things like mountains, deserts, grand canyon, huge forests, national parks, etc.

"Money can't buy Happiness" No. But it can buy the things that make me happy.

At Home is the name of a store!!!!! They aren’t stalking you through your window. 😂

Craigslist isn't just Missed Connections its all; kinds of Classified ads from listing things for sale, job search, missed connections, etc...

Was I the only one who noticed the correlation between the happiest states map and the bars vs grocery stores map?

That guy randomly answering “missed connections” posts is hilarious!!

I noticed a connection between winter and bars. The colder it gets the more bars ands pubs you get. The people in the south still drink.

The missed connection thing is insane! 😂 Especially the Indiana "At Home" 😲

In the U.S. nearly one quarter of mothers are stay at home moms that do not work jobs outside of the home.

The gray squares on the map of grocery stores vs bars probably mean N/A. There are many spots in the west where there are no inhabitants for miles around; hence, no grocery stores or bars. Public employees are people employed by government, federal, state, or local. Most of those on the map of the highest paid public employees are usually employees of the state's public university of system. For instance, in the state of Washington, the highest paid public employee is the head football coach at the University of Washington; he is paid $3.3 million/year. Just because there is no federal mandate for maternal leave, nothing prevents employers from offering it as a benefit. It is misleading, at best, to say that US employers do not offer maternal leave.

The fellow with the maps, Nick Johnson, dislikes the United States and the people who live in it. He drives around small-town America, insulting the locals (I saw one heroic fellow pour their soft-drink on him), absolutely convinced he's better than anyone around him. It would be better to get interesting demographic data from a less insufferable source.

Kirby Smart (Georgia) - $13 million per year Dabo Swinney (Clemson) - $12.5 million per year Nick Saban (Alabama) - $12 million per year Ryan Day (Ohio State) - $11.5 million per year Lincoln Riley (Oklahoma) - $11 million per year Jim Harbaugh (Michigan) - $10.5 million per year Brian Kelly (Notre Dame) - $10 million per year Gus Malzahn (Auburn) - $9.5 million per year Ed Orgeron (LSU) - $9 million per year Urban Meyer (Ohio State) - $8.5 million per year These are coaches yearly salaries. Some have been fired and continue to get paid this amount while the "school" a public institution still pays them and their replacement.

Lmao when you said "ahhh what is this" about snow in the south I laughed out loud. That is literally what our cities do the once every 3 years it actually snows down here

Money CAN'T buy happiness....But it can buy guitars.(and that's kind of the same thing....)

8:00 - One of my sisters grew up in AR. She told my other sister and I about Walmart and how it was taking over. Never heard of the place until she told us. Never saw one until the late 90s. It was a simpler, more peaceful time.

Upward mobility essentially means the ability to raise yourself from one level of income to a higher one. This also includes improved standard of living, improved education. Moving from blue collar (physical labor jobs) to white collar employment (office work, professional work) and upward to wealthy from living on a wage.