Indiana - The US Explained 

By living in Indiana. I’m required to watch all videos about Indiana.

As a Hoosier you have no idea how thankful we all are to get some recognition

As a Hoosier I am required to sit and be grateful we get some form of recognition. Most people forget we exist.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the town of Santa Claus or holiday world! Also the fall festival in Evansville being the second largest festival in the country after Mardi Gras.

I am actually floored by this. I'm a Hoosier from Gary and I have been to every corner of the state from Michigan City, to Lafayette, Bloomington, Evansville and I currently live in Indianapolis. And this was such an honest and true, well researched and presented take on a state most people relate to Corn, Racing, the KKK and Meth. Indiana is so much more, and I'm gald you visited the Indiana dunes park. I grew up right on the shores of lake Michigan. So seriously for all Hoosiers, Thank you Edit: Also I was told back in grade school that "Hoosier" came from the "who's 'ere" folk anecdote

When you mentioned the limestone capital of the world, Bedford, you forgot to mention all the natural limestone caves in southern Indiana, which are great tourist destinations. One was only discovered a few years ago near Corydon. Indiana is also home to the country's largest covered bridge, and covered bridges can be found all across the state in idyllic little towns, many with festivals dedicated to the landmarks.

I just moved to Indiana in July - I am extremely happy with what I've found here. Indiana really is a wonderful place to live.

I’m from Angola in Northern Indiana and I always found it funny how people always think Indiana I’d flat and boring but if yo you drive in the north, they’d find out it’s extreamly hilly, I love my state and thanks for the effort

Southern Indiana native and I feel like the only big thing you missed was Santa Claus. All letters addressed to Santa go to the Santa Claus, IN post office. And a group of volunteers respond. I lived there for 6 years and it is nothing if not on theme. So glad you mentioned Abraham Lincoln. Folks often forget that he spent his most formative years here and there is a state park dedicated to his life here. His mother died and is buried here as well. Within the park is a covered outdoor amphitheater and every summer has a play dedicated to Abe. Also Charles Manson is from Indiana. As well as a few other infamous folks.

Considering that a lot of people tend to forget about Indiana's existence, I thank you for putting in all the time and research it took to make this video. As a lifelong Hoosier, it's nice to hear something so informative about my home state. I don't think I've learned this much about Indiana since I was a kid.

Born and raised in Orange*County CA. Just moved to Fort Wayne and I'm loving it. This place is great.

I'm new to Indiana as I moved from the rechid West Coast and found this video very informative. Thank you! INDIANA ROCKS!

I grew up in Richmond and Centerville. I am glad that you mentioned Tenderloins and Sugar Cream Pie. I now live in Ohio and miss them both. The one thing that you failed to mention was the love of High School Basketball. The story of tiny Milan IN winning the State Championship is told in the movie "Hoosiers".

As a southern Hoosier you have no clue how happy I am that you said louisville normally.

Love this. Born in Corydon, raised in New Albany. Went away to serve in the US Navy and a career that took me to 5 different states. Retired now and to home I ran. Am a proud Hoosier and live along the Ohio River today. Love small towns.

Nice portrait of Indiana. I lived there for five years and my wife and I started our family there. We would have liked to have stayed, but circumstances forced us to move. In my heart, I'll always have a very fond feeling for the Hoosier state. It's so low-key and relatively unnoticed, and yet so beautiful, livable, and great. By the way: it has one of the most charming state songs ("On the Banks of the Wabash Far Away").

As a born and raised Hoosier, I approve of the content of this upload. I left the state when I was 35 and still go back to visit my parents. This is a great video. I would add a few things such as; Naptown is by far the most beloved nickname for Indianapolis. If you had highlighted Oscar Robertson you would have known that.

Being from Columbus, I really appreciate the segment that went into detail about it, it’s such an underrated little town.

Indiana is a great state that is largely overlooked and this can be said for much of the midwest

I am a Hoosier raised and born in LaPorte during the 11950s and 1960s. It was a fine state and town to grow up in with homespun Indiana values. I have lived all over the USA from up north in Minnesota to south in Georgia, east to Maryland and west to southern California and I have returned to my home state and original general area to spend my last 4 decades here at age 74. I now live in one of those small farm towns just 15 miles from the big cities and am surrounded by beaautiful family farms ,cornfields, and rivers , woods lakes and ponds. our state is known for Sugar maple trees and syrup making, E have the beautiful Indiana Dunes State Park and beaches along Lake Michigan's warmest shores. Hoosier tires, fields growing Reddenbacker and others' popcorn, the Indy 500 , James Dean's home state and museum along with the musician /singer John Mellencamp. Oprah Winfrey also owned a large tract of land and home near my hometown, at Rolling Prairie , 2o years ago. The former owner of the Oakland A's baseball team back in the late 1960s and 1970s was from LaPorte, Charlie O. Finley, who also gave M.C. Hammer his start in the music business with connections. ( M.C. used to dance outside the Oakland stadium for change when Charlie Finley liked his dance moves and talent.) LaPorte and area as also where the Christmas movie ,"Prancer" ,with Sam Elliott, as filmed. I am proud to be a "Hoosier" and I'll be buried near my Father and younger twin Brother in hometown , LaPorte,, someday. Peace.

Born in and grew up in Princeton near Evansville. Still not far away in Central Illinois. And you actually got everything right. Which is rare for anyone doing a video on the state. Nicely done.

This is a highly accurate and fair description of our state. We make a big distinction between northern and southern Indiana. Thanks also for mentioning the Scots-Irish.

I think I learned more about Indiana in 45 minutes than in all of my 67 years. Very well presented, enough so that I’ve subscribed to your channel… I never really enjoyed school, but the older I get the more I like learning about different places. Thank you for sharing this series on the states.

I grew up in Gary, and have lived in Bloomington for 8 years now. I'm in my senior year of college at IU and the photos you used in this video show my house both in the Gary area and in the Bloomington area several times! Very funny! You also left out Empire Quarry in Bloomington which had the limestone for the Empire State Building. We would (and still) swim in that quarry all the time, check out the movie Breaking Away too!

Fort Wayne reporting in! Nicely done.

Finally someone mentioned Elkhart I live here and love it. We are I believe one of the top 10 biggest RV manufacturers in the world we used to also manufacture alot of instruments in the 50s-70s. imo we are an overlooked part of the state for our importance in growth for the state we employ most of the people in northern Indiana. If I'm not mistaken we also have One of the biggest counties in Indiana.

Evansville is also home to the largest old growth forest still in tact within an urban area in the United States.

Wow. A video about Indiana that doesn't just put everyone who lives in the state down? Good job!

Holly cow he made mention of Goshen of all places. Didn't expect that, an area that would be overlooked by most, you are a RU-vidr of a high-caliber sir and I thank you.

We just relocated to Carmel from CA recently (by choice, mind you). When I told the locals where I came from they gave me that weird look. One person in the BMV (or DMV in other parts of the country) actually asked why would I do that. Still, it's a great state with genuinely friendly people. Believe me, when people in BMV actually want to help you to get your documents done, it is truly refreshing. I don't think those state employees in CA DMV gives a rat's behind what you need. Forgot to fill a space in the form? Move to the back of the line...

I grew up in Indiana then moved to Michigan for a few years for college. Indiana is a really quiet state that doesn’t make waves nationally… and I like it that way. People in Indiana tend to be friendly and quiet. Many of the smaller cities are really nice- I love Bloomington and Fort Wayne. Southern Indiana is also beautiful!

Excellent video! As a native Hoosier, I remember being taught in the required Indiana History class in school that the official explanation of why people from Indiana are called Hoosiers is... nobody knows for sure! Apparently, the oldest written Hoosier references, in 200-year-old newspapers and books, merely refer to people from Indiana as Hoosiers without explaining WHY. The "Hoosiers means hill dwellers" explanation only applies to the southern part of the state where the only significant hills are, as the rest of the state is flat. BTW, thanks for pronouncing Louisville correctly, "Lou-uh-vull" NOT "Lou-ee-ville." The Kentuckians thank you, as well as neighboring Hoosiers.

I have family in South Bend and visit there every year. Apart from Notre Dame, South Bend should also be recognized in the sports world for having the precursor to all modern baseball stadiums; the Cove was built in the late 80s and pioneered the baseball-specific, downtown stadium design that Camden Yards, etc. used in the 90s. South Bend Cubs (formerly Silverhawks) games are always great fun; inexpensive seats, good promos, and frequent postgame fireworks.

Honestly was a bit surprised you didn’t touch on how Indiana is a big convention town and downtown Indy has a huge convention center and downtown is built to be very walkable/convenient for convention goers. Which is why tons of conventions from all over the country are held here as well as the NFL Combine.

As an Indiana resident I found much new information contained in your video. I learned many interesting facts about the state. Showing actual photos of the cities you mentioned made it more interesting and I recognized many. You have produce a very high quality video. All of the school children of the state should view it!

I've lived in Indiana over 70 years. The only explanation for the origins of "Hoosier" relates to the greeting early settlers gave when some one knocked at their door, "whose's here", evolving into Hoosier. Cannot vouch for this but it was taught in public schools in Fort Wayne.

Among the famous Hoosiers, you missed a few: Wes Montgomery, Janet Jackson, John Mellencamp, Axl Rose, Hoagy Carmichael, Freddie Hubbard, Cole Porter, Crystal Gale, Red Skelton, and there are others.

Very well done! I've lived here for about 20 years, and this was informative and taught me a few things about Indiana. Since I didn't grow up here, I missed all the historical stuff in school. Usually, I don't watch videos over 10 minutes long. I watched this entire video!

I'll be honest, I did not expect to see a shot of downtown Southbend and the art museum. I've always thought of Southbend as a fairly minor footnote in the grand scheme of our state. Great video.

Very informative video, as the rest of the US Explained videos you've done have been. I'm from the UK but have been to Indianapolis a few times to see a friend who lived there and go to the US F1 Grand Prix (when it was hosted there), so a while back. I either drove or flew down from Chicago and from what I saw and the stereotype of the state I always thought that it was very flat, consisting of fields of corn as far as the eye could see so it's great to get a fuller picture of what all the areas of the state I didn't see were like, and to be quite honest I'm astounded how wrong I was. Great video, it's to a beautiful state with diversity of landscapes and geography that I never knew existed so thanks for challenging stereotypes if nothing else. A very well presented video and I look forward to Mississippi, which I know very little about.

Excellent video... As a Hoosier for the last 34 years, one of the best things I ever did was to move to Indiana... Love the Hoosier state...!

One thing that could have been mentioned is that in many northern indiana cities (like Fort Wayne) the amount of German immigrants was so high in the early 1800s that some street signs were in German.

Moved to Indiana from Chicago back in 1997 and couldn't be happier. I love the state especially Michigan City where I reside. Our area is seeing a boom in the past 5 years. Great video sir.

as a resident (and lover) of the state, this video was fantastic and thorough. thank you for this series!

Holy Hoosierdom, this was a superb video! I am a Hoosier and an easily triggered meticulous stickler for nuance and depth in examinations of my often oversimplified and disrespected state. I was certain you would skip over some crucial button in Indiana's details, but my friend -- you hit them all! A first among all RU-vids I've seen on my state. Thank you, and I'm pinning this. And making a Patreon contribution to you as well.

I appreciate all the work you put into this video and all other videos

I’m from Toronto. I visited Indiana to watch the Pacers. Great state.

If you marry a woman who has family in indiana, you sir, are moving to Indiana. I don't make the rules.

Greetings from Indy! Thanks for addressing the 'origin of Hoosier' question. The best answer (that I use) is the simpler "hill" answer. In Missouri, "Hoosier" means "Hillbilly" so it's not exclusive to Indiana. Most people I know use an even easier one: "Hoosier is means person from Indiana" and leave it at that.

Excellant job of doing your research! Enjoyed your presentation of this beautiful state.

Your videos are becoming more and more polished and professional. Well done!

Born in Michigan City & spent a lot of time in Marion growing up, with my Dad, I traveled IN top to bottom. VERY WELL DONE!! Thought I knew alot about Indiana till now. Great Job!!

The Indiana Dunes used to extend westward thru Gary, East Chicago and Hammond but were leveled off and used as fill to create sites for the industrial plants and cities. The largest sand dune was next to Michigan City. It was once covered with trees and grass then became bare after the trees were cut for firewood and overgrazed by cattle. Now the city was being buried by blown sand so they allowed Ball Glass to start mining the sand due to being ideal for glassmaking. It made a light blue glass so the Ball canning jars became known as Ball Blues. More glass companies came in to mine the sand so didn't take all that long before the small mountain was reduced to a giant flat sandy section of land. A big coal-fired electric generation plant was built there to supply current for the growing industries to the west. Lake County holds Hammond, Gary and East Chicago. To the south it borders Newton County where there's a stone quarry inside an ancient meteor crater. The crater was larger but was reduced in size as the glaciers bulldozed their way south. The layers of stone used to be in horizontal layers several thousand feet underground but were found to be vertical once the mining operation exposed them. Northwest Indiana had nothing going on until after the Great Chicago Fire. The city leaders decide to direct all new dangerous and smelly industries to build on the unpopulated southeast side so speculators snapped up the cheap land to sell for high prices. The businesses looked across the state line to see the same swampy land was available for dirt cheap so built there instead.

I am a life long ponderer about this region of America. I am a lifelong Geologist- Hydrology, Meteorology, Oceanography... the rivers and Lakes have always spun my propellers. Then A Fantastic Hypothesis >>> findings were produced in leaps and bounds immediately, confirming my Hypotheticals of 73 years. Then "right on time'... along comes this " Video CONFIRMATION " of many years of study and observation. With Field and lab confirmation, ... just ADD this great production, Genius work with great maps and all that info. Thank You. INDIANA holds water..............

I spent a number of years in my childhood in Indy. After we moved away I’d always wanted to move back. Now almost 50, I live in Southern Indiana and love it. When I tell people back in the South where I live, they say “where’s that?” It’s perfect. I think Axl Rose of Guns-n-Roses is from Indiana. And John Mellancamp is certainly from here too.

been waiting for this video! greetings from northern Indiana!

I wish the little river towns got more love. I'm a resident of Aurora. It's a cute little town right on the river with a lot of potential. Just needs some love and care. Less floods would help too. We get ravaged by flooding more frequently then we'd all like. Flooding has done a number on the local infrastructure and our local businesses. Hard to run a shop when its full of water, i suppose. But really it has a lot of potential to be s beautiful scenic river town

Of all of your videos, this is one I never stop coming back to! The Midwest is an incredible place.

As a Hoosier, this made me proud. I think all my fellow Hoosiers would agree. Thank you for the video and recognition 💯🫡 #317

Thanks for representing! Great vid man. Gonna watch the series

This is great thanks, Indiana all my life.

Its nice to finally find a video recognizing the beautiful Indiana!

REALLY ENJOYED YOUR COVERAGE ON INDIANA👍👍👍

Since I nerd out on history, I attended the 200th Anniversary of Lewis and Clark expedition at the Falls of Ohio. Lots of history professors and students. Very cool.

35 year old, 7th generation farmer and lived in Indiana my whole life. No better place to grow up!

I'm a stonecutter from Bedford. Been cutting and carving for over 20 years.

Excellent job in this video - thanks

Born in Indianapolis aka indy aka naptown!!! Moved to Chicago at 21 back in 2011. Thanks for the upload!!!

Very informative. I never knew you had the best explanation about Hoosier. Actually it makes sense, because the state was first populated by settlers to the South. I do realize there was native settlements to the North. It’s funny that some folks don’t realize Indiana has a great shoreline. I met a guy while vacationing in Europe who worked on ships his career. He gave a crowd of Americans at the table a geography lesson. Kinda funny. Carmel is fairly interesting for a retirement place. I love the covered bridges festival in October.

Very well done! You've done your research. Thanks!

I was waiting for this for months…thanks!

When it comes to the origin of "Hoosier", I was raised with the idea that it stemmed from the phrase "Who's your Mom? Who's your Dad?" as an aspect of our communal hospitality or those that were moving across state looking for a place to stay.

A few famous Hoosiers you missed: Oscar Robertson, Jim Davis, Axl Rose, Adam Driver, John Chapman (the guy Johnny Appleseed is based on), David Lee Roth, Orville Redenbaucher.

I love all our beautiful caves here in Indiana. Marengo, Wyandotte and quite a few others. ❤

So proud to be from Southern Indiana!

One thing I will say: the northern two thirds aren’t flat everywhere. Along the Wabash and the rivers that feed into it, particularly in northern Indiana, it’s very hilly. The Missisiniwa and Salamonie are very close together so their valleys keep that part of the state largely wooded and rolling. In fact a lot of the eastern side of the state, a county or two in at the very least, is rolling. And the same is true of the northeastern corner and Lake District, running from around Marion (and east and north) to the northern and eastern borders. And it’s hilly up the west side of the state everywhere the Wabash goes, only getting more prairie-like north of Lafayette. There *are* places in the east where it’s flat, but it’s not around so many rivers and lakes. It is such a surprise when I take people around Indiana who are from out of state, or who have only visited Indy by traveling through the flattest part of the state from Chicago.

As an Indian, Indiana is my favourite state. Most so because of general free market policies of government.

Great Video, Thanks

Keep these up! They’re awesome

As a life long Hoosier, I still learned a lot of things about Indiana. Thanks

I was born in the south, but my family's from Elkhart, IN. I guess the reason why I noticed a lot of ppl down here are from Northern Indiana is because of what you mentioned about the British settlers dominating that region of the state. Where's a lot of Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry is located in the Southern regions of the US as well.

I'm from Indiana, and still learned some things, I didn't know. Great video, Thanks!

Born-and-raised Hoosier (and Boilermaker) here!! This is fantastic. Thank you!!!!

As a born and raised Hoosier I approve of this video. Should have mentioned our Covered Bridge Festival which brings in hundreds of thousands of people as does our little destination town called Nashville in Brown County. Also have a large percentage of automotive manufacturing in Indiana not to mention the I-70 corridor which lends to us having thousands of Warehouses, Distribution Centers, and freight moving facilities for the country.

I was born and raised in the Chicago area, but spent my summers on a lake in northeast Indiana. I have traveled the US extensively, but Indiana holds a special place in my heart. I still travel to that same lake that I did as a child, and I intend to spend my retirement there.

Born and raised on the far outskirts of Fort Wayne, this perfectly captures Indiana, thanks for the recognition!

Thank for giving Indiana recognition, I'm from fort Wayne

As a lifelong Hoosier, I thank you for doing a great job on this video. You picked up on some small things that only some real research would have taught you. NWI roots for Chicago teams.

I've lived in a few Indiana towns in my life. Mount Summit, New Castle, Knightstown, Greenfield, and Morristown. I'd say Greenfield is the most contemporary of those, but it's pretty expensive for its size and location. Knightstown is probably my favorite, lots of old houses and buildings, not too big or small, affordable housing.

Excellent report.

It's cool to see a RU-vid video that covers places I've actually been to before.

10:44 ok so I might be wrong but is this image from Chalmers??? That brown house in the distance is my grandma’s house, and my dad helped make the walking trails in the image. I grew up there; it’s such a small place where everyone knows everyone. Literally no one I talk to has ever heard of Chalmers, so it’s so neat to see my home town in this video! Most indiana videos cover Gary and Indy.

Another great video Carter! I didn't know Indiana had such a large Amish population. Kentucky also has a large Amish population, however I'm not sure where it ranks. Can't wait for your next entry 🙌✌️

great video thanks

Nice to see a balanced coverage of NWI. Too many people doing videos have no idea how important this area is to our nation's economic well being. Plus, we have more than steel mills to look at out our front windows.

I would venture to say most Hoosiers miss "Indiana Time". The suburbs around Chicago are considered the "Region" colloquially. I wish you could have covered Dyngus day in South Bend. You also missed the Orthopedic industry which makes up $40 Billion in revenue. Really great content of the rest!!!

Finally ... 😭❤️

This is thorough. Well done.

Lets gooo I been waiting for this

You also missed “The Middle”, a TV show set in the fictional town of Orson, Indiana.