Geography of Politics 

Some of his info is definitely outdated. There's no way California isn't losing population.

The information I used was from 2019. Obviously the pandemic could change things, but the state is not losing population.

@@GeographyKing I just checked to make sure. Estimates put last July around 39.9 mil This January is roughly 39.7. And I don't imagine the pandemic has done them any favors. If we follow your own prediction of looking at the jobs, I don't think draconian lockdown mandates, even compared to other progressive cities, are helping to boost the economy either. This would also coincide with the biggest concentration of public figures announcing they'd be leaving the state for various reasons.

@@MinecraftMasterNo1 that goes with what he said in the video. Public figures leave bc the entertainment industry isn't growing like it used to and it's currently a difficult state to move to with lockdowns so the high tech sector isn't bringing in a lot of physical residents right now. It still stands that the economic prospects of a region supercede all these media narratives.

@@MinecraftMasterNo1 I don't know what you checked but the info I'm looking at is showing a steadily growing population in california...

He will be, the fact that Texas was almost blue this election says it all

@@anchhwa he wont be and texas wasnt “almost blue” trump won it by over 600k votes which isnt close

@forgottenplaces you are exactly right

AS the commenter admitted Geography people should no talk about politics, take this for example " the only reason Republicans want to retain the electoral college is because it favours Republicans" You complete oaf Geography dunce >> USA is a Republic and the Constitution made the electoral college. You are watching you country dissolve into the third world and you are a spectacularly stupid dumb arse.

@@paulscottfilms you haven’t made any points. The reason we are a republic is because we have a congress not an electoral college. Just because it is in the Constitution doesn’t mean it is necessarily right for the modern era. The fact of the matter is that there are more registered Democrats than republicans, so the republicans would be hurt by the electoral college. I’d like to know what you mean by “watching you country dissolve into the third world”

If I could do it over, I'd study the same!

As a 19 year old, I find geography quite interesting, but I'm afraid it might be hard to get a job after college if I did indeed major in it.

@@darthdarthbinkss geography is such a broad topic! So much so that you’ll likely not have the title of “geographer” for your career. You can specify what you want to do. For me, I decided to go the route of urban planing because the geography of cities Fascinates me.

@@anthonyaguilera9068 I’m 19 as well trying to figure out a major. What are other job paths someone can do with a geography major?

@@coleanderson5099 Geoinformatics definitely one if youre into technology. Its like geographical data and map programs stuff like that, big job market. Geographers can also work as experts in government agencies etc. Of course a research path and teaching are the obvius ones aswell

If I remember correctly, that was Bill Clinton's slogan in 1992 when he was running for president. :-D

I am sitting almost exactly halfway between the Apple spaceship and the Googleplex. You’re right, Trey, as long as Stanford, Cal and Santa Clara University keep pumping out top-notch grads who have spent a few years in the Bay Area climate, ground zero for tech will be right here.

@@harleyb.birdwhisperer well the "big one" will wipe all that out in a few minutes

@@mannfan12 Nope, the “big one” will be when the JDF subduction ruptures. That will be north of the triple plate conjunction off Mendocino.

The difference in population change is that people with college educations tend to move to growing tech areas, especially if there are a couple of universities around. The higher educated the area (usually the suburb), the more liberal-leaning the population too.

@@Borat_Kazakh So, if three high school grads leave town, and one Ph.D. moves in, the population is lower, but is the town worse off?

For me moving to the South was not a big culture shock but rather a huge humidity shock!

@Austin Martín Hernández let him vote however he pleases. He is a free American, he can like guns, or not like them and it's his right to either opinion.

@Austin Martín Hernández as an European I'm always staggered at how you Americans love that particular amendment. It would be unimaginable anywhere else to have everybody possessing a gun and people defending hard their right to possess such tool. But hey your country your rules

@Austin Martín Hernández I would not support certain politicians sure, but everyone has the right to vote for whatever they want, hell if someone wanted to abolish the 1st amendment I would be like, wth you crazy. But I would not tell him what do do with his vote. His decision only, in this case the dude is moving states, something he is free to do and if he wants to keep his home policies he is free to do so even if others don't agree with that.

@@duitk welcome to the libertarian party! Lol everyone has the right to live as they choose as long as they dont harm other people or property you dont own. That's as american a platform you can have.

Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you like the videos!

A case in point that low taxes are no guarantee of a good economy is what happened to Kansas a few years ago.

Norway has a high tax rate and it's often regarded as the "perfect" economy

as an alabama resident, our growth is the beach and huntsville in which keeps a balance so i dont see the state changing soon. but yes, the taxes in al aren't bad and we have a low cost of living. happy this state isnt being cali-ed

@@ImZuzo there's not enough people in AL to be "Cali-ed"

What do you mean by comparing MSNBC to fox? Which one are you saying is worse?

He just says it as it is. No sucking up to liberals or conservatives, only jokes about doing so. Only hard ass facts.

Big Babado IKR?

Agree completely! I'd trust a used car dealer more than I'd trust the MSM..... and I'm a used car dealer!

He needs to be in the alternative RU-vid rewind

Much deserved success

did his channel blew up these days? Im a new subscriber after someone posted a video on Reddit. But I thought he already a quite a bit of subscribers for a while.

He has recently popped up in my recommended and I have binged all his stuff. He is great!

Keeping up with the comments has been more difficult. But I am able to devote more time to the channel and upload more often, which is good because I have a backed up queue of video topics!

European here

What language are you speaking?? Stay away from our American youtube, you strange foreigner!

@@Chris-io2cs Wtf :D german

@@AndrejWosnitza I've never been to Germany what is it like

@@lilbiscuit5825 it's pretty densely populated so there is no rough remote nature here, but the culture and history is pretty rich. I can recommend visiting Thüringen with small cities like Erfurt and Weimar

I was gonna say....let's not forget about San Diego here lol.

@@kylerobinson1985 Of course not. I wrote three generations of software that runs Lou's Records in Encinitas.

I live in Silicon Beach in Los Angeles, which includes Venice, Santa Monica, Westchester, Marina Del Rey, and Playa Del Rey. No shortage of high tech companies in Silicon Beach, and it has caused property values in my neighborhood to go up considerably.

@@larsedik Manhattan Beach here. Been writing software since I started my company Pacific Software 1986. Been contributing to projects in Europe, Japan, New York and of course California. Southern California has Tech. And entertainment, where many of my clients are.

San Francisco is actually the financial hub of the west coast. People are leaving it in droves. Silicon Valley is not San Francisco. Silicon Valley is mostly in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties with some spillover into southern Alameda county. Alameda county also has some manufacturing, but it's high tech manufacturing. People are also leaving far northern California (north of the Bay Area and Sacramento). The main industry used to be logging, now it's mostly growing pot and collecting unemployment. I have never seen such an economically dead city as Redding (though I admit I have not visited Rust Belt cities). California can't get any further to the left, and the pendulum is beginning to swing back to the right. Republicans are gaining House seats in 2020 in California, as they have throughout the rest of the USA. Orange County is very distinct from Los Angeles. It's economy is based on tourism and secondarily on research and development, not manufacturing. Its usually a Republican stronghold, whereas Los Angeles is heavily Demonrat. San Diego has a Republican mayor and the northern half of the county (adjoining Orange County) also tends to be Republican. San Diego is heavily influenced by a strong Navy and Marine presence and also a large tourism industry. It also needs to be noted that Silicon Valley has pretty much reached the limits of its growth during the current economic cycle. Companies have been off-loading to other areas for quite a while. Oregon became a secondary high tech area when Intel moved some of its facilities up there. Tesla chose to build in Nevada because it was too impractical to build a big plant in Fremont. Currently Austin TX is catching a lot of overflow, including another Tesla facility.

Thank you!

Yeah states generally had more autonomy before the civil war and less after the war. People are more concerned about presidential elections than local ones

Sure, but that was not the entire purpose behind the EC. The EC was also implemented because people generally had 0 clue about who presidential candidates were unless the candidate was from the voters own state, so they introduced an elector system so that voters could 'trust' the electors picked the candidate that best aligned with the views of the voters. This was literally due to the assumption of ignorance of the masses. Nowadays everyone can find out the entire life history of a presidential candidate before they are even nominated by their party to be the presidential nominee and what their views are. I would argue that the publics ease of access to this type of information in the 21st century makes the EC system obsolete. It would be more democratic for us to abolish the EC, which I think would also have the benefit of an overwhelming increase in voter turnout (particularly in states that are not battlegrounds), and I think all sides *should* hopefully agree a higher percentage of eligible voters actually voting is always preferable.

@@joer8035 I totally agree. The EC suppresses representative democracy. At this point, there is no presidential campaign in more than three-quarters of the country. Unless you are a "battleground state" you get radio silence until it's time to vote (although that has its definite lifestyle benefits). No rallies, no candidate visits, no media interviews in your state -- nothing to address what your interests might be. And then they guilt you into voting as if they care whether you exist or not.

@@joer8035 Perhaps, but the EC was also intended to preserve State Sovereignty and federalism. As I understand it, the EC was mostly a compromise between having Congress elect the President and having each State Governor cast a vote. They rejected Congressional election because of Separation of powers, and they decided against gubernatorial election because they believed Governors would 1) not be knowledgeable enough about national issues and 2) that a single vote cast per state from a single executive would not be representative enough. Thus they settled on the Electoral College system. I would argue that if we get rid of the EC, we would be getting rid of one of the last true semblances of federalism and State Sovereignty in the United States. Should it be reformed? Probably. But to just completely do away with it would be very unwise imo.

@@lukeporras1288 Yes, the EC was a compromise given the state the 'country' was in at the point. The articles of confederation were not actually a bad system of government, the problem that led to getting rid of that form of government were mostly trade and currency issues between states. My point is, those issues do not exist anymore. We have a centralized currency, we have a mass education system in place(albeit not that great), and resources for citizens to be informed on who the presidential candidate is, their political history, and what their platform is. You mention getting rid of the EC would be getting rid of one of that last true semblances of federalism and state sovereignty. I'm not so sure I agree. In fact I would argue getting rid of the EC would improve state sovereignty, given that fact that someone who lives in remote Alaska has more voting power (which directly translates to how social policies will play out given who is elected), over someone who lives in NYC or LA. An Alaskan citizen has 239.22 voting weight compared to a Californian citizens 1.80 weight (for presidential elections). Therefore, the EC seems to actually do diminish state sovereignty as the entire concept is that all states should be equal. I'd be interested to hear more reasoning on why exactly it would be unwise to get rid of the EC in your opinion? Do you think the negative implications outweigh the positive outcome of higher voter turnout in all states? Campaigning would certainly be different, and I doubt the focus would be on the same handful of states every election cycle.

Hell, we got a housing shortage here in Knoxville.

It's because people are fleeing Memphis.

When he said Mass Effect I🤯😍

Developed by Greek, Austrian and Swiss immigrants.

We are all expecting you here ;)

We love tourists coming to America

@@lilbiscuit5825 lol

Thank you very much! I appreciate the people who have been with the channel since the beginning. It's really important to have support when the channel is small

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Brown people repopulating whats theirs, you are the foreigners

@@jenaroayala5731 groups do not have the right to own land. Only individuals do. Also an increasing amount of immigrants are from Asia

100%

You have to look at median house values in the South with a huge grain of salt. There are a lot of rundown mobile homes that have virtually zero value that lower the median house price considerably while there are very few really expensive homes to skew it high. Plus wages are embarrassingly low in the South. $900/month rent isn't cheap when making $9/hr. Also, the Central Valley in CA is cheaper than most of the US for cost of living relative to wages. CA has low property tax rates so if you're in the Valley where houses are cheap, property taxes are very low. Our property taxes in TN are more than twice what my parents pay for their house near Fresno, which makes up for the higher income taxes. Most Californians don't realize that the non coastal parts of the state are actually very affordable. The anti-California media refuses to say anything against the narrative that the state is expensive and unfortunately many people believe the political media. The sheer amount of poverty in the South should be enough to show people that things are worse down here even with cheap houses but the anti-California media aren't going to say negative things about the South. But I can totally see wanting to leave CA for Montana. I hope things go well for you there. I love Montana but man I couldn't do those winters!

Yes and they've screwed it up for the locals.

On the I-10 I see so many California license plates

Californians also migrated to Nevada and Texas alot as well

@Obi-wan Kenobi this is the way

They ruined my homestate of Oregon and now they're ruining my new state of Arizona too. Gotta find a place to escape to next.

Thank you!

@@GeographyKing You're welcome! Ever done an episode on tollway transponders? Now a must (sadly!) for everything from Chicago to East Coast! Terms vary, depending on which state you choose for your account. ಠಿ_ಠ

> areas that are growing the fastest are blue cities in red states I think this is partially a function of where the tech jobs happen to be, partially a cultural thing. As someone who grew up in a northeastern suburb, I know a fair number of people who have moved to cities like Austin or Raleigh but very few who have moved to rural areas in other parts of the country. Cities like that feel accessible to a northerner because of the high tech sector and job opportunities are also great. Personally, I think I'd have a hard time moving to a more traditionally southern area just on cultural terms not political ones--my father moved to Texas back in the 80s and found he had a hard time fitting in, ended up moving back north a year or so later. I wouldn't hesitate much if I got a good job offer in a place like Atlanta, though (well except for the climate!), the city sounds cool and I'd feel a lot more confident in my chances of fitting in.

@@Gwenavere Agree..you cannot underestimate the cultural aspect, the on going culture war in shaping red v blue states. And YES equally important, American interstate migration, repopulating large metro areas with younger liberal migrants many with hi tech backgrounds on going in GA and NC altering the political calculus in those states. Years ago CO was pretty much GOP until on going migration of young urban from Chicago etc changed the political landscape dramatically. W/O this influx, Colorado would probably remained more like Wyoming.

…and Phoenix, AZ!

Yeah I was disappointed with cnn's election coverage. It was like a total pileup on poor Rick Santorum.

I'm a liberal dude, but CNN has me horrified by how they handle literally anything the Republicans do, as well as vise versa with Fox. They're so obviously feeding into biases now it's impossible to watch.

That was far from unbiased.

Question is how much will this really change though. I'm sure some people will move because of this, but a lot of people live in suburban or urban areas for more reasons than just internet connectivity--they like the social and cultural life of more populated areas as well. My family has a rural cabin in the Maine woods and I would absolutely spend more time there during the summer if I had good quality internet, but I couldn't imagine moving there full time year round. There's just nothing to do.

@@Gwenavere Cold and isolated. Not exactly a prescription for a happy life.

Star link is trash and a blight on humanity.

@Edgar Miller "...a one hour drive to a grocery store or health care provider..." In the downtown core of any large city, it can take an hour to get anywhere. Reason being, you can't just walk outside and get in your car parked outside. Traffic is atrocious. And parking at the destination is just as bad. Even if there's a grocery store nearby, it'll be vastly overpriced; so you'll actually drive to the suburbs to shop for groceries, and it'll take 2 hours. It's not as if you can carry your supplies back on the subway. The Health Care provider in any urban megalopolis will have a multi-hour wait to to Friday night stabbings. The myth of the "convenience" of living in a huge city's downtown core is inexplicable. The guy living 45-minutes outside Bangor Maine can buy a 'treasure hunt' list of supplies way faster than the guy living in Time Square NYC. PS: I'm on 3.5 acres of lakefront, with 1.5Gbps fiber, 10 minutes from work, 10 minutes from Costco/Walmart/Ikea, and 20 minutes from an ER. The fiber is an odd miracle, and cannot be expected normally. StarLink would make it equivalent anywhere.

@@Gwenavere Other way around. Rural areas have had depopulation pressure for various reasons, including internet. Young people aren't hanging around if there's no broadband. Even middle aged and elderly "need" broadband.

And 200 Park right after that

They are over represented. Two senators in WY represent 500,000 people. Two senators in CA represent 40,000,000 people. In what universe is that fair? The sooner the Electoral College is abolished the better

@@steveb7429 Did you take basic Civics in grade school? The House represents people, the Senate represents States. Thank God for this as the welfare dependent, unmotivated and uneducated mobs in the inner cities would turn us into a third world country.

Congratulations. you're a fucking idiot. 1 person, 1 vote. land shouldn't vote.

He means on the presidential level; a lot of Democratic states in that sense vote for GOP governors. Massachusetts is one of the hardest blue states on the presidential level but has a Republican governor, while Kansas is a solid red state presidentially but has a Democratic governor.

An establishment corporate Democrat was on the Democratic ticket so people were not excited. If the Democrats actually put a strong progressive like AOC, Katie Porter or Bernie on the ticket, VA would have been solidly blue. Unfortunately, the Democratic establishment hates progressive Democrats more than Republicans, so they give us little choice.

What a suprise!

I would be hesitant on Texas because of the recent political happenings. I wouldn't be surprised if they try to not certify it if it goes blue ala AZ 2020 and 2022

@@Nyakubs can you elaborate?

@@TheMadGod Republicans in the state of Texas have tried to introduce laws to overturn election results they don't like. Basically instead of listening to the people, the electors would be told to vote for whatever Abbott(the governor) says to vote for

Without electoral college republicans would be focus more. For past 30 years democrats have been the one compromising. Not that democrats are any better but republicans don’t really care at all about 75% of the country just a small portion that will get them re-elected.

Urban areas will represent absolutely everything. I for one don’t want a one party dictatorship.

Thank you! What happened is that after the election a lot of people searched for "election map" and many that did got a recommended video about of mine called "examining interesting maps". A high percentage of people then clicked on that which then tripped the RU-vid algorithm that it was a good recommendation and then another one, "oddities of US geography", appeared as a trending video on the RU-vid homepage. It's been huge growth since. I'm glad you found the channel!

@@GeographyKing thanks for replying. It's nice to know there's a human being who takes the time to acknowledge questions and comments from the great unwashed! Now that you point out out, I did enter your channel via the interesting maps post. I think that was recommended to me because I subscribe to Vox, and they have a guy (whose name escapes me, but he has since left Vox, and struck out on his own) who takes on borders (both domestic and international), and other geography issues. I took a geography class on college, which really spurred my interest in the subject, but I have been a map geek every since at the age of five my grandfather bet me a whole Dollar that I couldn’t memorize all the state capitals. I won the bet, and to this day know them like the back of my hand. He was a crazy old bastard, but I am glad he made that wager. Keep up the good work!