The USA Explained in 30 Maps! 

Florida is just green in the life expectancy because everybody that retires goes to there.

You know you're bored as hell when you're binge watching videos about different state statistics

Hawaii may not have a very large Native American population, but it has a huge Pacific Islander population, which is its indigenous culture.

Conclusion: don’t go to Mississippi

The literacy map is just measuring English literacy. The four least English literate states are some of the heaviest immigrant populations, many of whom hardly speak English, let alone write and read it.

a Minnesotan here and I didn't realize how good our state really is... minus the winter and the cities

As someone who was born and raised in Mississippi, I can explain why it's a shithole. First off, in terms of economic resources....Mississippi doesn't really have any. With agriculture being the dominant industry, and tourism behind that, there is not alot of incentive for outside investment. If you want any semblance of good pay there, you have to work the farms, or you go into tourism. The fishing industry used to be big...but the 2011 oil spill absolutely devastated the local industry. It still exists, but it's a far cry from what it once was. As most buyers started contracting international or other states to fill seafood demand for fish. It didn't help that during the 2005 hurricane katrina the gulf coast got hit really hard with damage. Even almost 20 years later, they still never fully recovered. The event caused alot of crime to break out too as alot of people lost their source of income and housing. To make it all worse, 2008's housing crash put alot of Mississippians in even more peril. Trailer parks for low income poverished households started shutting down. People with investment in their own homes lost everything. The lack of incentive economically for the rest of the country to invest in the state created a excess of fees and costs for basic infrastructure. Things like school funding, bridge maintenance, and power/water infrastructure began to collapse. Leaving much of the state in complete disrepair. It doesnt take long to find roads and bridges that havent been maintained or used in years just right off the main highways and interstates. With a lack of funding from the federal government, school performance began to drop. Increasing illiteracy rates by a huge margin. The lack of jobs and affordable housing pressures alot of people to go into criminal activity. Drug and human trafficking are common along the coastal interstate. My father works for MDOT, so i saw first hand how bad it can get. Typically obesity in america is caused by undereducation about nutritional health along with the expensive nature of sourcing healthy foods. Leading to a common unhealthy lifestyle for the poor and impoverished that make the bulk of the population. Domestic abuse and violence occur frequently especially in the rural and coastal areas. There still exist sundown towns in some parts of the state, which are extremely racial towns towards minorities such as african americans, but the police are largely underfunded and corrupt in the state as well so im not surprised. the south has always struggled desperately with systemic racism. Much more then most of the country. With a lack of a future the vast majority of those who can afford it flee the state. Like I did hoping to find better opportunities elsewhere. Mississippi is a testament to what corruption, systemic problems, and gross underfunding can and will do to the rest of the country if things dont change.

In conclusion don’t go to Mississippi and go to Minnesota.

Minimum wage is not a good metric to use for determining who makes good money. Washington and California have some of the highest minimum wages, but also lead the nation in cost of living, homelessness, and widening wealth disparity. A better metric is how much of their money do they keep after taxes and bills.

Its okay to say "black"...somehow hearing myself referred to as "dark" sounds worse.

As an Iowan, I have to agree, we are always forgotten. Everyone calls us Idaho or Ohio. But, as long as our state is better than Nebraska, I’m happy

Well, I'm a Floridian, so I have to defend it here: By my knowledge, Florida, Texas, and California all have high populations of non-English speakers. Where I live, there is a large percentage of Hispanic population. A lot of major companies, like Amazon, work to offer free classes to learn English at local community colleges.

My grandfather always had a quote "The greatest part about living in America, everyone can have an opinion no matter how wrong they are.

Walter White really screwed up the degree of safety in New Mexico

Bruh the thumbnail is so misleading😭

As a geographer, I understand maps on a different level and my biggest observation here is that there are so many overgeneralizations and categorical anomalies. To fully understand and comprehend the data being presented, additional information should be included, like where the data came from and the statistical methods used to calculate that data, to name a few. Most of these maps are inaccurate, which is not incorrect, just inaccurate. What source data was used? What methods were used? Is everyone aware of the limitations of the data, such as self-reporting? People lie, so that needs to be backed up with additional information from health providers, which isn't allowed here due to HIPPA laws? You need a bit more explanation for these maps because, from my spot checks, I see some serious inconsistencies that could be clarified and mitigated by additional information and additional map products.

How do you forget Minnesota because like (insert joke about us almost freezing to death during winter here)

Wish some of these maps were explained more, because population and tourism is a factor, since all the states in red for literacy are highly frequented states and have high populations, there is the Texan-Mexican border, California and New York being popular for immigrants in general and Florida with Cubans that come from the south

(23.7!) Homicides per 100k seems excessive. Are you sure it’s not 23.7?

Just to clarify that you need to realize that the population in every map matters for ex. It makes sense that California has the worst Literacy cause there is 40M of them but only 750K North Dakota . This just helps understand why everyone thinks that Texas, California & New York are great even though these maps might not show it.

Still proud to be from Mississippi no matter how many stats show that it's a bad state!

Note to self: Don’t live in Mississippi

how the hell are north and south dakota in the top 10 memorable states?

Dark for the big minorities map is insane 10:44

Quite educational. Thank you for putting this together!

Alabama used to be on par with Mississippi, however in 2024, it is barely in the bottom ten, ranking as the 40th worst state. In 2018, it was 49th with only Mississippi being worse

The minimum wage one is definitely interesting. When I lived in Virginia a few years ago the minimum wage was $9.50 while Wisconsin defaults to 7.25. Yet all the low paying jobs in Wisconsin start at higher wages than similar ones in Virginia, despite the latter having a much bigger economy. Student jobs in Virginia pretty much always went to minimum wage while in WI they're at least $15

Wisconsin has a low minimum wage: true Very few companies actually pay that low. Its hard to find a job for less than 8.50 (most of those are the giant national chains fyi...) its almost unheard of to hear of someone making under 10$/h. In my town McDonalds pays 11/H and walmart is around 10/h starting. We are the last industrial stronghold in the U.S., our economy is alot stronger than what our minimum wage would imply.

I love videos like these, keep it up!

So the gist I got are the coasts and northern coasts especially tend to be nicer (in terms of living) and more educated but more expensive and not too high salary raising in compensation, while the south is more obese and costs less but earns less as well, with less education.

2:27 It used to be the predominant language in many states until WWI came and the government outlawed it. The bans were later revoked for being unconstitutional but it hit hard enough that it never fully recovered

the fact that at 2:08 bro said connect icut bro its *conneticit* ( Im a ct native)

Shoutout to my home state of Kansas for being the transition guy

Very, very fun maps. Nice job. Most dangerous is not shocking at all. I am familiar with four of them, and in in all cases the dangerous parts are one or two cities within each state. What is shocking is some of the states that rank as safe. Always a risk with maps unintentionally making large areas look different than they actually are. Same thing happens with real estate. And remember, only one Springfield has a monorail.

This just again goes to show the contrast in seriousness to improve its constituents livelihoods by Democratic vs. Republican led states. Almost all maps have such a divide that it cannot be ignored.

Washington has a high minimum wage because everything is so damn expensive over here for no reason. I’m thankful the DoD pays for my rent because a 1 bedroom apartment starts out at 1900 a month. It’s kinda ridiculous tbh. You need the high minimum wage out here and sometimes you might even need a roommate to get by.

As somone from from Conecticat with a father from Vermon, I can confirm that it’s very safe here.

Thank you borat for the info.

in love w this channel 🤘

15:37 “If you are from the US, chances are you speak German, French, or Vietnamese” what 💀💀💀

Minnesota is basically the best state to live in almost all around looking at these maps not many Ls

Minimum wage has nothing to do with average wages. Among the few who do work for minimum wage, the majority are teenagers who likely don't work full time.

Masterpiece , i subscribed.

Louisiana has some pretty terrible stats, especially for obesity. But, if you came here and ate our food, you'd understand.

I live in Missouri and it is usually very forgotten

If you compare housing prices to median household income, it was interesting that WV had a match. I’m other words, the price of a house is 1x your annual income. Where I live it’s 6x

On housing, the expected standard of housing is also higher in higher income states. Meaning, houses cost more but are more likely to be larger, have more amenities, and be in better condition.

I would like to point out, that outside Camden and the New York suburbs New Jersey is pretty safe, its unfortunately those areas would drive it. New york is brought down cause of the city

Lower minimum wage doesn’t mean lower standard of living. For example, yeah Texas has a lower minimum wage but it’s ten times cheaper to live in Texas than California.

I live in Mississippi and I live in the far north and it is really nice and the living quality is great

Very interesting and well made video!

Well San Antonio has never heard of you either so don’t worry about us pally😁😁😁

Me happy that Missouri isn't in any extremes but also upset because it has nothing it majors in at the same time...

as an illinois resident, it makes me so happy to see my state now in the 1T+ GDP club

The higher minimum wage does not correlate to better chance at the american dream. For example, I bought my first home (3bed/2bath/2 car garage/screened porch/nice yard) in Oklahoma at age 23 for 180k. I also own my car outright... Sure we might make like 30% less than those in Cali, but I would rather make 30% less and have houses, utilities, gasoline, etc cost 300% less.

As a vermonter its funny to hear you say say our states name... Veermont. Great video btw.

Many more reasons why Minnesota reigns supreme over all of the other states... as long as you don't live in the cities, Duluth, or St. Cloud that is.

When it comes to california in regards to stats and whatnot inckyding wages and eveything it vastly differs depending on WHERE in california you live in, if you live around the major cities like LA San Francisco, San Diego or even Riverside and around San Bernadino these are usually the most expensive and crime filled areas though some places are not often nearly as bad in terms of pricing and income but that also depends on your job to. I live in the high desert and at one time rent used to be $900 for a 4 bed house and then around i wanna say the 2013s rent stayed not being too bad but also our minimum wage was also pretty low at around 8 bucks but once we saw the rise of $15 an hour which my workplace back in 2018 it would raise 1 dollar per year the rent kinda trickled upward but it wasnt such a major impact in my area if you were already renting a place which barely raised the rent or owned a h9me.you were safe however if you were jumping from house to house the rent sucked for you in some cases but wasnt seriously bad but then Covid and Biden happened all of a sudden everything exploded in price what used to be ok rent back just 3 year ago was now practically doubled a studio now costs like $1000 or more a month and most homes that have 2 beds range between 1200 to 1600 any house with 3 to 4 bedrooms costs between 1900 if you are lucky to around 3000a month. It legit takes me and my siblings to remain afloat any impact on our jobs will see us in the streets at the very least gas prices have finally dipped to being around $4.07 a gallon. I currently earn $19.75 an hour but if i start up a business my money troubles will end for good

Before the civil war Maine & New Hampshire was a part of Massachusetts. They did not put enough history in the state lines.

Washingtonian here every thing is so expensive here that that $16 may seem nice but the average house is around 1m and it's $5 or more per gallon

these stats are Iffy, esp the literacy rate as US has a high Spanish speaking immigration, and the median income data is 7 years old.

Did you just use Saint Louis as your metric for Missouri or the whole state because it just looks like you used Saint Louis.

I just can’t stop seeing the chef😂

Of all thse fascinating geographical facts that this video explains....I think perhaps the most fascinating of all is "what the Sam Hill kind of a geographical accent is this speaker speaking?!?😮😊

Wait wait wait! As someone from a Springfield, I need that last one explained. How can a state have more than one Springfield? Like logistically how does that work? Or are we including counties, villages, subdivisions, etc with the name? I mean dude had it going to 999 in count. I need explanations! 😂

The common ancestry map at 2:30 is unfortunately highly misleading because it relies on self reporting. Unfortunately my fellow Americans have an extremely poor understanding of this subject and many believe that having 1 or 2 ancestors from a place means that’s what you are. Like most things it is more complicated. Most Americans are a general mix of multiple different heritages with a strong bias towards the British isles. ( England, Scotland, Wales)

you gotta do this again with all the county’s in the states to get a better idea

What software are you using please

In the map where it shows you the most common ancestor in that state might be wrong because some states are part of the Louisiana purchase meaning the most common ancestor is not German but french

Fuck I’ve gotta move to Minnesota

4:25, In New Mexico we only have a $12 minimum wage as of Jan, 2024. It may go up in the future but we're not at $15 like your map says there yet.

As someone who lives in texas, I can confirm that hearing sirens outside of my window from about 2 miles away happens a!almost everyday.

Massechushits and Minnesoda have to be the best places (i know i spelled it wrong)

Okay, a few thing of note. The Federal Drug Association determines what ranks as obese. And they change it depending on what they want the stats to say. That it not to say that it is not a problem though. Next, regarding Mississippi, from 1876-1988 it had Democratic Governors. Since 2004 it has been Republican Governors. Since then The overall crime rate has been slowly going down and so has the unemployment rate. It takes a long time to get the population of a state up to par on schooling and such. By the way, this is just from a quick search for stats. I'm not an expert. But America is a great political experiment. Search for states with the best stats regarding what is most important to you, then check there political control history and see what works for what you like. Great Video! ;-}}

hey, tell me what is the search engine in North Korea Called

Imagine remembering North Carolina and forgetting South Carolina 6:38

6:54 So Massachusetts that has some of the best colleges, hospitals, and sports franchises in the world. Location of the start of the Revolutionary War, home to several presidents in history, and you’re telling us New Mexico is more memorable. Idk what you’re smoking but it must be some good stuff.

So what I’ve learned from this is that if you want to live in the US, move to Minnesota.

The minimum wage in new Hampshire is basically 12 because if it wasnt ever worker would just go to maine, Vermont, and mass.

The phrase needs to be changed from “only in Ohio” to “only in Mississippi.” Worst US state by a long shot

Indiana just being the most average state

It’s funny how much better floridas stats would look if Miami fell in to the ocean.

1:49 as a former resident of New mexico, I am not shocked at all. there were like 20 school shootings per year in my city

Minnesota is the best state Totally not biased

Anyone else find it weird so many people in Hawaii have Japanese ancestry? With the history of Japan and Hawaii, i just find it surprising....

Minnesota, my home state, the underrated gem

In Idaho, the minimum wage is lower because we don’t need to pay unrealistic taxes like California or the bigger populated states

being from Mississippi I will say that all of the large urban areas are terrible, the north is significantly worse than the south. The coast is where all the industry is and if you don't live next to the south or a city you usually drive to a different state to work.

5:08 the reason Montana is so expensive is because it has a lot of rural mountain towns that are very popular to retire in

Take a shot every time he says north or South Dakota (Sober challenge)

As a Minnesotan, I think you guys are finally realizing how op we are

One thing a higher minimum wage acts like inflation. Say minimum wage gets increased then the price of stuff goes up so you can pay the workers and you make less money as an owner

Calafornia has a horrible crime rate

2:51 I never knew that Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and West Virginia had such a large first nations population.

Well done.

The median household income for wv is $55,217, not under $40,000 like the map says.

midwest best place to live in usa, cheap, decent weather, and is epic

On the road fatality stat. It’s legal to drink beer while driving in Mississippi. South Carolina does not require vehicle inspections so there’s a lot more unsafe vehicles.

Minesota got some of the beat stars for living

"Move south", they said. "It would be better" they said. The southern states hit worse on most to all of these lists.