If you like these weird borders, you can watch the extended edition over on Nebula with a few more along with the first episode of my brand new series Ghost Towns!! Ghost Towns especially is super cool, I'm traveling to ghost towns across the United States and hopefully later the world to document what they're like today and how they became abandoned. The first episode is live on Nebula right now and it's about the communities around the Salton Sea in California. The best way to get access to Nebula is through the bundle deal with CuriosityStream at CuriosityStream.com/reallifelore, which is absurdly only $12 for an entire year right now. Thanks so much y'all for sticking around in 2020 and I'll see you all again throughout 2021 :)
No @RealLifeLore you always get sponsored every video and you talk about the sponsor to stretch your videos and that is to anying stop getting sponsored and no one wants to use it and we have to pay to use your dumb sponsor you used to make good videos then you always got sponsored try to make your videos good again by not getting sponsored ok please just not get sponsored or else just don't get sponsored again
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It likely jutted in and out plenty, sometimes straying too far west, sometimes too far east. I would have found it stranger if it were more off, because then there would have been a clear bias in some direction.
All the borders mess starts with someone saying: "Let's ignore all the natural landmarks and people occupations and define this border as a straight line. "
i live in texas and you know how there is popular states? well my family always talks about colorado and utah cause so many family live there... and florida what weird states lok
North America's not alone though, a lot of African borders are also principally made up of straight lines, and some Middle Eastern ones, though the Middle Eastern ones are actually pretty workable for the most part as they cross uninhabitable desert where no one lives.
Shows how little you actually know about US geography. There are still a lot of borders defined by rivers. California and Arizona, Texas and Mexico, parts of Idaho and Montana. Not sure if that's a river or mountain range dividing Idaho from Oregon and Washington. Also, Europe and Asia were divided when mountains meant something. And some of those mountains are bigger than what we have.
I’m glad I looked at my phone before I got in the shower. Edit: I didn’t think clarification was needed but wow the internet is a stupid place. I didn’t watch the video in the shower I watched the video and then had a shower.
@@riggs20 wisconsin didnt get statehood until about a decade after this conflict (if you can call it that) but people there still do wish/believe that the UP should be a part of wisconsin. plus a lot of uppers are packers fans so they probably wouldnt mind.
As someone who grew up in Wisconsin, I always wondered why the hell the UP was part of Michigan instead of Wisconsin. Never realized it was because there was contention between Michigan and Ohio for the Toledo strip. Tell you what, Michigan made out like bandits in that deal.
@@Wisegoatface That’s a rather odd question. Just because Wisconsin is known for its cheese doesn’t mean people eat it “religiously.” It’s a common food there just due to the fact the state has a large amount of dairy farms. Personally, I like cheese quite a bit, but I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say it’s eaten religiously.
Hey, cool video! I’m a land surveyor myself, and it’s fascinating to learn about all the land disputes and errors that eventually decided our borders. If you have time, I recommend you do a segment covering Andrew Ellicott’s survey of the 35th parallel and the dispute over GA’s northern border!
The more I learn about US geography and how the individual states were formed, the more I realize it's basically 50 countries kind of haphazardly glued together XD
lol as an American, this is how most of us see it, we're still all Americans but our states have their own holidays, cultures, traditions, history, and laws.
I've been long aware of the Ellis Island situation. The real reason for the litigation was to decide which state got to collect sales tax revenue from concessions on Ellis Island.
You've never worked in government have you? There are some unimaginatively petty people in politics, and a lot of them are in the governments of NY and NJ.
The rectangular-looking Canadian province of Saskatchewan has a jagged border with Manitoba. When Saskatchewan was surveyed in the 19th century, townships were designed to be 6 miles square, but that meant that every 24 miles going north from the southern border, a jog had to be put in the eastern border, 225 feet, to keep the townships from shrinking.
"RU-vid algorithm doesn't really favor that very much, so let's run 2 minutes of ad at the end of 9 minutes of content, thereby making sure we go well over the 10 minute length favored by the algorithm."
Yeah, it's a lie. The algorithm does recommend videos less when they are under 10 minutes, but there is no inherent upper limit. There is a limit linked to retention time, since lets say a 3 hour video is unlikely to be watched all the way by most viewers, but this does not have much of an effect on videos under 30 minutes.
For the amount of Colorado references you make, you must either live there or be from there! 😂 I am a native Denverite though, so I always love seeing the references!
Probably my favourite bizarre state boundary situation is the Kentucky Bend, a piece of Kentucky separated from the rest of the state as a result of the Mississipi River and the boundary agreements between Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. The 36.5 Parallel was supposed to be the whole boundary between Tennessee and Kentucky up to the river, but when surveyors reached the river it was a 10th of a degree north of the parallel. The one between Kentucky and Missouri is the river, hence why Kentucky Bend is cut off from the rest of the state
I moved from the UK to Toledo as part of a foreign exchange for two semesters between my university here and UT. From my personal experience all I can say is, Ohio, it was not worth fighting over. 😂
Wow that was so cool and quite funny to me haha I love your videos I'm from Mexico I can't understand a 10-15 % of what you're saying but your channel is a lot interesting to me I've learned a lot from you thank you
7:00 I think we have situations like Hancock everywhere in Germany. Our state lines are based on geographical features and centuries old land claims, so there's probably not a single straight line anywhere longer than a few hundred meters. Switching states several times on a straight stretch of road isn't that rare here.
Minor nitpick: The NY-NJ dispute did not "go all the way up to the Supreme Court." SCOTUS has original jurisdiction over disputes between states. The case started and ended with SCOTUS.
I forget who made it, but there's a good video somewhere on YT that talks about the borders of Bangladesh and India. I think that is far more confusing.
There’s also a little circle of land in the southwestern corner of Kentucky that’s completely surrounded by Missouri and Tennessee called the Kentucky Bend. It’s pretty weird.
Technically there is just one: the Kentucky Bend, and that is strictly an exclave as it borders two different states. The river is fully part of the state so having to cross the river to get to another part of the state does not make that part an exclave.
@@Quintinohthree nah mate if you look at a map there are plenty of them. I look at maps all the time. For example there is a big piece of Kentucky across the Ohio river that should be on the Indiana side in Evansville and that’s just one.
@@jakekillsrah1933 Right, across the Ohio River, which is in Kentucky, both banks and everything in between, so you go from Kentucky, cross a river which is still all in Kentucky, and then you gwt to Kentucky. That's not an exclave or an enclave, that's just the border no longer following the current course of a river
Can we remind the US of the NC and VA borders in the outer banks where 18 miles south of the VA line there is an outer banks island which belongs to VA and the beaches belong to north carolina there is a similar situation where the town of beaufort NC/SC is cut in half. Not sure why either of these happened but if that could be clarified it would be great.There are probably more and probably an entire show in the outer banks.
Yea. That kinda checks out actually! Especially because since the eastern states were made first (in our analogy, the toddler drew them first and probably didnt have stencils on hand/really messed up, which kinda explains the natural-ness of some of their borders in a way that makes you question what I am doing with my life due to my overthinking
Hey RealLifeLore! Love the video. Just thought that you might want to know that when I searched "reallifelore" on Nebula, the only results were your new "Ghosts Towns" show and a crossover video from TierZoo. I had to search "Real Life Lore", with all the words separated, to find your channel and the extended version of this video. I really want to support your channel and others like it through CuriosityStream and Nebula, but it's difficult when I can't type in your channel name as it appears on RU-vid and find your videos. Might want to contact the Nebula team about that!
That's a bold statement to say that EVERYbody knows about Michigan's UP. Awesome video. As usual, I learned some things...including a new way to pronounce parallel :P
2:29 well actually, if you take it from ancient Greek, but flip the digits, as with the rest of the shapes, it's a hexakosia kai enenekonta kai hepta-gon, or all in one word, hexakosiakaienenekontakaiheptagon
Yarnhub, Simple History, Over Simplified, Sam O'Nella Acadamy, Half as Interesting, etc. There's loads of channels that do historical content, in visualized form in very entertaining ways.
I've been to the Lost Peninsula in Michigan. It's a bunch of private houses/marinas, two restaurants, and a small sign saying "Lost Peninsula." That's it. Since it's not much, it doesn't surprise me that few people know of it
