North Dakota and South Dakota Compared
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Mr. Beat compares and contrasts North Dakota and South Dakota, two Upper Midwestern American states that folks often mix up.
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The Dakotas
South Dakota and North Dakota, two northern plains states in these United States, but they are not as plain as you might assume.
Once part of the mighty Dakota Territory, one of the last areas of the country Americans settled, they split up, and today there is a mild rivalry between the two. People get them mixed up, although in this video I’m going to explain how they are quite different, despite sharing part of a name.
But first, what do they have in common? Well, other than being irregularly-shaped rectangles.
Both are about the same size, although South Dakota is a bit bigger. There’s also not a big difference between the population of the two states, although South Dakota has more people. Historically, their populations have rarely been far apart, with North Dakota’s population even surpassing South Dakota’s a few times. Currently, North Dakota is growing at a faster rate. Both don’t have a metro area that even gets near half a million people, which is why Minneapolis-St. Paul is pretty influential over both.
Both states are considered part of the Midwest. Most of the two states are made up of mostly prairie, part of what’s known as The Great Plains. Both have mostly continental climates, and generally the further west you go in each state, the drier it gets. For example, the annual precipitation in Fargo, North Dakota is 22.6 inches, while it’s 14.4 inches out west in Williston. It’s 26.3 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, while it’s 16.3 out west in Rapid City.
While both have four seasons, both have fairly mild summers and long, extremely cold winters. North Dakota does get a little colder in the winter being further north.
The Missouri River is the major river that runs through both states. Both are about as far from the ocean as you can get.
West of the Missouri River in both states, the land becomes much more rugged, with badlands and buttes.
Both are mostly rural states with lots of agriculture.
Residents of both states are younger, on average, than most of the country. (36.8 SD, 35 ND). Residents of both also tend to be Christian. 77% in North Dakota and 79% in South Dakota identify as such. And most residents in both are of European descent. The largest ethnic minority in both states today is American Indian.
Both states lean conservative politically, and reliably have voted for the Republican Party since the 1960s.
So how about those differences?
The poverty rate is lower in North Dakota (10.3%-13%). However, crime is a little lower in South Dakota. More North Dakota residents have college degrees. And the cost of living is generally higher in North Dakota.
You might be interested in this video I made when we visited South Dakota in 2013: czcams.com/video/wOmQ1vU-gNs/video.html
What did I leave out? What did I get right? What did I get wrong? Which two states should I compare next?
Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Edit: If you didn’t already do those.
You got everything wrong. You left so much out. You should compare my state to another state that I hate.
@@mattbeatgoeson YOU are wrong, you silly old man. Go back to making videos about bands and films that no one cares about.
No I haven't done those yet! :D
I think I’ve gone cross eyed. So many Beats!
I’m glad the Dakotas got noticed, because of how much we are forgotten
Kye The Pug Forget what?
Connor Foley well is just being forgotten in general. Most popular states (from experience) forget about us Dakotans
Also the fact that many people outside of the Midwest don’t understand that we do indeed have electricity. And yes, I have had many encounters of people being surprised we don’t live in teepees.
Ya! It's like we are smaller than rode island
Shhhhhhhh, I like being forgotten up here on the prairie. If people knew how nice it was up here our whole state would become a shit hole over night with all the freeloaders moving in.
I've never seen so many residents of the Dakotas gather in one spot in the internet; it's refreshing lol
Crazy fact: I live in Canada.
I can smell the beer and taste the frostbite.
Dakota North everyone knows that the Dakotad really are just south Canada ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Holy heck yes
@@Satan666Official I smell mosquito spray
1. S.D. does not have mild summers (it was 110 a few days ago)
2. SDSU and NDSU have a bigger rivalry that UND and USD
Thank you! I live in ND and I've never understood how we get pegged as having mild summers. It's incredibly hot and humid.
by mild i think he means it’s not constantly hot. we do get some scorching weather, i don’t deny that, but in other states it’s above 80 pretty much all day every day, and we have some nice breezes to cool off.
That's not true for the whole state. Buffalo & Belle Fourche are basically like living in New Mexico.
As a North Dakota, I can say that we don't have mild summers either. I've been in worse, but I've been in mild too. We do NOT have mild summers.
@@michelleshefstad4699 You must not live in western North Dakota where it's like living in Cali, lol. It's very interesting to hear that b/c most of North Dakota has a continental climate, which means their summers are supposed to be a little more mild than subtropical states like Georgia or southern Pennsylvania.
These days, being forgotten is not a bad thing.
Like every Biden goof
Lol what do you mean "these days"
@@ph0enix321 These dark times.
@@Parkere409like trump good
I seriously have a lot of questions about MegaKota. Couldn’t they have just called it... Dakota?
I know right?!?
@@iammrbeat I'm from SD and everyone here thinks of it as more of a joke and people put fake signatures on the website sooo probably not gonna happen lol.
I wonder if a majority of people in both states signed it if the government would actually follow through? Doubtful, but we've seen land subtracted from states more often than granted to them, so I'm sure a consolidation of two states has some sort of precedence.
@@KatInHerKat From North Dakota here, a lot talk about it but wont sign it, it would be cool but economically bad for us.
It's Dakota Grandè. Get it right you filthy casual 😉
South Dakotas Motto: "Thank God we're not North Dakota"
North Dakotas Motto: "Thank God we're not South Dakota"
North Dakota has a few others...
Montana: "Where men are men and the sheep are afraid."
Minnesota: "None of those idiots know how to drive."
Canada: "The suburb of the United States."
South Dakota gang
Everyone else’s motto: “Thank God we don’t live in either”
Wisconsin’s motto: “Y’all want some cheese?”
I live in north Dakota, and its like this. North Dakota we have oil, south Dakota we do not
You would be surprised by how many tourists think the “brown cows” make the chocolate milk.
Are you kidding me? 😅
haha i love hearing this all the time
The brunette men make the chocolate milk. They're the Cosmic Brownies of the world.
ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
@David Osterberg you never milked a strawberry?
That joke is older than me. Any cityfolk visiting a dairy farm anywhere is gunna get that joke from the farmer.
Uhh the college football part is stupid. The SDSU and NDSU rivalry is wayyyyy better
FR I applied to both NDSU and SDSU for my grad program and they both found out and fought over me which was weird af
Also go Bison 🤘🤘🤘
BISONgirl5963 I ended up choosing NDSU in the end! My sister lives in Fargo so I have a built in friend lol
@@hellapainyo hahaha my brother is going to NDSU this fall. I've been a fan of NDSU since I was born
That's what I was thinking
North Dakota’s state flower is a traffic cone
bruh fr
South Dakota as well. Road construction suuuuuuucks
South Dakota’s state tree is a telephone pole
state bird: mosquito
state tree: telephone pole
state beverage: melting ice
the best part is that people believe us when we say we ride buffalo to school.
czcams.com/video/iJ4T9CQA0UM/video.html
Sad part is when we joke about how bad our public education systems are now and yet we are still at the top of the national IQ ratings anyway.
@David Osterberg buffalo sounds cooler 😝
And people never believe me when I say we don't have buffalo in the United States. We only have bison. 😂
Bison*
North Dakota: Land of the Extremes
1. EXTREMELY Cold Winters with -50°F Wind Chills
2. EXTREMELY Hot Summers with heat indexes getting past 110°F
3. EXTREMELY Powerful Winds
True
I'm pretty sure several of the American cities with the most extreme temperature ranges are in ND
You must live elsewhere in the state. Western North Dakota isn't humid.
@@Free_Snooki Yes he addresses that in the video: "The farther west you go, the drier it gets"
The wind! No body knows just how windy we get in North Dakota. Like our extreme winters, it's something you have to experience first hand. Our wind is relentless and strong.
Fairly Odd Parents gave me way too much hope as a kid that the Dakotas would one day settle their differences and become one big Dakota.
I remember that :)
That would be so cool!
Wait did that happen in the show? Based!
@@SouthDakotaFacts Based 🤓
The Dakotan Empire!!
SOUTH DAKOTA DOES NOT HAVE A MILD SUMMER LAST WEEK IT HEAT INDEX OF 104
Yeah i almost had a heatstroke in 110°F. Thats not mild by any stretch of the fucking imagination
Yeha the great plans have terrible winters AND terrible summers 😆
Trutttthhhh we have a hot summer and cold winter
It's called global warming
No this is why SDs motto is stick around an hour the weather will change
I live in ND, and I was on a vacation in Florida and my family was talking to another family and they were surprised that we weren’t still traveling on horse...
Hahaha that's a good one!
Now hold on we ain't Amish
Floridiots for ya
Yep, a few years ago I was in Arizona and some fool commented that ND is gonna love having internet in a few years. I replied that although I lived in the middle of nowhere ND I had gigabit plus capacity fiber optic at my house for several years already. He didn't even have that yet! 😁
@@russianbot4418 I am from Canada and I got that from a girl in Texas. I said yep we got internet and electricity and hot cold running water!!
I think the Dakotas should merge, then split into 2 states. East Dakota and West Dakota
👍😆
We kind of already have that in South Dakota. East river and west river in South Dakota have a rivalry almost as big as the rivalry between the two Dakotas! (South Dakota’s better though)
@@lyndsie6328 Wow I didn't think it was that serious.
@@sandybarnes887 it is. I live on east River in South Dakota. That is legit how many of us will introduce ourselves.
My stepdad grew up in Beach. When I was in high school in Wahpeton, he used to tell me that the real North Dakota started in Jamestown...everything east of there was Minnesota Jr. I thought he was full of it, but now that I've lived in western ND for several years, I have to say I agree.
The two biggest things that come to mind, when I think about my home here in North Dakota is the wind and the terribly cold winters. Here in North Dakota I never have picnics outside, because there is never a day that the wind wouldn't blow your napkins and paper plate off the picnic table. Our summers are short. In 2018 we only had summer for 4.5 months.
Bro, same here in the south. We get late May through early September, and then it’s back to parkas and stocking caps. I think down here our summers are a bit warmer though. 105 degrees down here a few weeks ago!
I sat for 6 weeks in Tioga in 2010 waiting for wheat to dry out. Finally got done the second week of October. Came down to southwest Nebraska and worked into mid December in jeans and a flannel.
It was too much like winter up there.
Haha 4 seasons you are funny we have winter and 3 days of spring and construction season
Ryan Pettit People think we are joking when we say that shit
👏👏👏👏
I hate that you're right
We have winter from October to April,spring, winter for 3 days, ROAD WORK SEASON ON A ROAD THEY WORKED ON FOR 3 YEARS! Summer, and the why the f**k did I move here again season.
@@nostalgicuniverse9747 but we are not, put a Florida family in here, you see them in parkas, IN 50 DEGREE WEATHER! In the winter they die because of not living here.
As a South Dakota Resident you hit it head on. I live east river and there is a bigger rivalry with east to west than between the two states.
Greg Luther 100% agree
I’ve lived both east and west river and I graduated in chamberlain lol
What doesn't help is the liberalism gaining a foothold in the East.
As a South Dakota resident I agree. As a west river resident (Black Hills), suck it east river lol. I say in playful rivalry.
East River all the way
The Dakota Territory had a big influence on the ideology of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1884, while grieving the loss of both his wife and mother on the same day (Valentine's Day), he upped sticks and headed to his ranch in what's now North Dakota. The man himself reflected, "(...) I never would have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota."
The site of his ranch became known as "the cradle of conservation,"
SiVlog - Roosevelt embraced nature,for sure.
Trump embraces natural resources like they're his. Sad.
@@carlsaganlives4141 I always got the impression that Theodore Roosevelt was a man riddled with contradictions. As mentioned in the History Channel documentary about the President's, "(...) The Republicans' worst nightmare had come to pass. Theodore Roosevelt was no longer just a heartbeat from the presidency, he was the President. 'TR' as he liked to be called, was a complicated man, a mass of contradictions and he could not be bullied. He was a Conservative, yet he fought for reforms. He was a hunter, who started the conservation movement. A Hawk on war, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. Perhaps the only thing that's easily understood about him is that he was an original."
What I thought was refreshing, reading about him, although a member of the Republican Party, he never identified himself as such. He never fought in terms of party politics, he fought for what he felt was right for the American people. Regardless of nationality, if a politician can do that for the most amount of people, they're going to be a great leader, be it government or head of state
@@carlsaganlives4141 well BULLY!
to long
yaas every summer my family and i go to Medora and ive visited the cabins he stayed in
I visited North Dakota once and its such a great place. Its a seriously underrated state.
Wow you are lucky that you visited North Dakota I wish I was in North Dakota.
I live in North Dakota and in my opinion, it’s quite boring. But thank you.
@@ihavenoideasforanickname2964 i know right. I don’t understand ppls hype. I find it boring to
@@esaflaka9155 I was born in Williston and lived there for 38 years before moving to Grand Forks. East side is much better with more to do.
@@TheRatlhed yea I figured lol
The biggest rivalry in the Dakotas is between SDSU vs NDSU
Yep. On a national stage as well. Both have more recognizable NFL alumni too
Pssshhhh NDSU owns them, not much of a rivalry haha
NDSU absolutely dominates
Yeesss NDSU Bison for life
True..ish... NDSU vs SDSU (if that is true, does NDSU students and alumni view this as a rivalry?) wasn't really a thing until fairly recently when SDSU moved up to Division 1.
During my time at NDSU (before D1) in the 90s, SDSU wasn't a rivalry that I remember. That was saved for UND.
Should compare Rapid City, SD (West River) and Sioux Falls, SD (East River).
That's a good 1 rapid city wins though lol
YES! SIOUX FALLS
@@danielrausch9475 never been there, but they win. We only have movie theaters, thunder road, skate city, and at least 13000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 STORES!
@@LukeO317O7 you traitor! How dare you say anything about east river is worse than west river! Also thunder road sucks but that's beside the point.
No one likes East River
Me after living my whole life in SD... “oh that’s cool I didn’t know that” not even South Dakotans care about SD😂
Exactly I can’t wait to move😭
@@daylight137 ong
Ya!🤣🤣
That’s not true. I love South Dakota
As someone from Massachusetts, this was very informative. I hope to visit both these beautiful states some day
Weird how I live in South Dakota and I get this
CZcams tracks your location?
Perhaps 🐄
That's exactly what I was thinking i live in sd too lol
Same here! I live in south dakota. And strange to get recommended this 🤔
Yes! And Google watches you while you sleep at night.
Yes they do. Its in the license agreement.
If we became MegaKota, we’d just split again into East River and West River Dakotas.
Laughed out loud at the East River comment talking smack to west river “you smell like spruce!”
@RTHA300 why are you horny
I like a west river state idea, black hills, badlands and teddy roosevelt national park, that'd be sweet
@RTHA300 kik? bruh you need you need to step your game up.
It should be called Dakota
Funny because there is a gang called ERS or east river skins
North Dakota: where if the wind stop blowing we'd all fall over...
That and if it's sunny for more than 3 days in a row, we all get suspicious that climate change might actually be real.
@@russianbot4418 😀
@@russianbot4418, false. We're plenty arid. We get lots of sun. Even in the winter. Hence the famous North Dakota "sun dog."
My teacher is making me compare and contrast South and North Dakota so this video actually really helped me. Thank you so much Mr. Beat!!
One is a nightmarish hell hole. The other is South Dakota
Ah , North and South Dakota! My two favorite Dakotas!
The only dakotas with purpose! Oh wait...
What about ME?
Can I be your third favourite Dakota? (It's my name, plus I live in South Dakota).
@@corvidaedalus me first.
I'm Dakota Anne-Marie North.
@@dakotanorth1640 It's not my fault my last name isn't South. 😂
Maybe I need to go find someone to marry who has that last name.
You got it wrong. It's all about NDSU and SDSU not UND and USD
Luke Martin yeah and I’d say it’s stronger between SDSU and USD
Fr
There’s 4 colleges and they all hate each other
Hunter Peters I mean UND has hockey and that’s it not really a rivalry they aren’t even in summit
@@ryandowning2956 ya but they're coming soon. I'm just saying that SDSU and NDSU is the big one
They have electricity and internet?
Interesting.
Ofcorse they have you idiot, if not, they would be north korean
They have better Internet in a better power greater than anywhere else in the United States that is North Dakota While my laptop crawls in San Francisco it's off the chain in Williston North Dakota
Black Man woooosh
@@zeedopox4130 piss off
@Snowball 😢
"Long and extremely cold winter" is the best description of my state I've ever heard. It snowed on Oct 10th and ruined my Halloween decorations
And now it finally snowed for the first time ind December on the 13th!
Yea but it got back up into the 40’s and 50’s, shorts weather! 😎
My family lived in South Dakota for a year, near "Rabbit City," as I called it (I was 3 years old, and our neighbors had a pet rabbit). My dad used to say there were two seasons in the Dakotas: Winter and August 23...
Also, I want that E.river V. W.river video. It is unbelievable how different it gets when you cross the Missouri
I think it would make a great video for sure.
While you're at it, you should start doing videos comparing regions within states. In my home state of MN, there is a tremendous difference between Northern and Southern MN.
In other states like PA and NY, I know the Western reaches identify as their own things. Northern California vs Southern California vs Bay Area, East Texas, West Florida, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, etc. The possibilities are endless C:
Yes make sure you include Lake Agassiz which is why the east has the great farm land.
I live near the East part of the SD/ND border. That river is like night and day barrier. The time zone even changes there.
East River all the way #SUFU
A few things.
1. About half of North Dakota's people live north (yes, NORTH) of a continental divide, the Laurentian Divide, and their waters drain north through Winnipeg. Although a few people in South Dakota and Minnesota and Alaska also live in Arctic drainage basins, they are a small percentage of their State's population.
2. North Dakota may be the only American State with socialist tendencies in spite of its strong conservatism. It has a State Bank, unique within the 50 States. And the State owns the facilities that produce Dakota Maid flour.
3. One joking reference is that "North Dakota is ducks whereas South Dakota is pheasants." This has to do with a large number of "prairie potholes" used by ducks in breeding seasons and the drier conditions down south.
4. Agricultural issues: North Dakota is the largest producer of honey and of durum wheat (used to make pasta) and of some other products in the USA. South Dakota does not appear to lead the nation in any of its agricultural products.
5. The woman on the golden dollar coin in the USA has a different name in North Dakota than in the rest of the country. She's Sacagawea or Sacajawea in most places. In North Dakota she goes by her Mandan name, Sakakawea.
6. One other joke: South Dakota has the Black HILLS that are mountains. North Dakota has the Turtle MOUNTAINS that are hills.
7. South Dakota is the site of the geographic center of the USA , near Belle Fourche. North Dakota has the geographical center of North America, near Rugby.
Is that enough?
lol wonderful additions, some of which I thought about bringing up in my video but did not, so thank you!
Zeyev, you forgot that the summers aren’t exactly mild
The geographic center of North America recently switched from Rugby to near a town appropriately named Center. They just constructed a small monument to it.
Wrong. South Dakota is the number 1 sunflower producer and has been for 3 years now.
@@kenziem6156 Thanks. That's new and our friends at Wikipedia didn't mention it. How dastardly of them!
Thank you so much for doing this video. Nice to see some recognition, being born and raised in North Dakota myself. Also for rivalry as far as college football, there's the Dakota Marker game that's played every year between the SDSU Jackrabbits and the NDSU Bison (my alma mater), it's a pretty big important game.
You know you've given up on life when you're watching a video on the dakotas
lrmclinn Yet here you are...
@@TDDummermuth exactly my point.
Even before the current "crisis" I've been trying to find the safest, most ignored place in America to live. Against my instincts, I bought a house in the Appalachian region of western Virginia. Houses were super-cheap here. I don't hate it, been here a year. Really beautiful actually. But it's not my kind of culture. Once I fix this place up some (and if the economy allows) I'm selling and going west. Minnesota, U.P. Michigan, and the Dakotas are where I'm seriously looking now. Mountains here are nice, but I'm feeling a little claustrophobic. Need some open space.
lrmclinn Gee, thanks...
Ghost Tongues you can move to Fargo it’s pretty nice I heard.
I'm from South Dakota, but for 3 months I lived in Japan. One of the places I stayed at asked me if I would do a presentation on where I'm from. Everyone was so confused by the corn palace. It was hilarious. And anytime I would tell people I was from America, they'd always ask "California? New York?" And when I tried to explain south Dakota, they would have no idea, so I'd just load up a picture of mt Rushmore and say "here" and they'd understand pretty fast haha
The corn palace is our greatest weapon. Kristi Noem can press a button and start a Cornado. Of course, that’s nothing compared to the 5000 nukes hidden under Wall Drug
My father loved down home American things, but he was repulsed by the Corn Palace! On a more serious note, it's becoming a problem in United States and Canada that these small states and provinces exist. Other than history, there's no reason why the Dakotas should remain separate. Here in Canada, the province of PEI has only 140,000 people... yes, it even has its own accent, but it's too small! Both countries were founded as federations, but with the rise of cities this situation is becoming ridiculous...
@@johnarmstrong472 I’m pretty sure history and culture (which includes dialects) is like the #1 reason for separate states/nations. Now, I’m all for Dakota unity, but I don’t think the small state of Vernon would be to happy if they were absorbed by New Hampshire…
@@SouthDakotaFacts Vermont. It's so small you forgot the name. I'm all for them unifying too! In Canada, if we wanted to get rid of King Charles as head of state, all provinces must agree. So Prince Edward Island, with 140,000 people, could reject the wishes of 38,000,000. The US Senate composition is similar in its craziness.
@@johnarmstrong472 It works kind of different down here. Originally, states were basically autonomous, only really contributing with taxes for a few basic services. But over time, a federal beaurocracy has gained more power. The original idea was that because states were all on their own, they shouldn’t be measured by people, but rather that they were just another state. BUT a compromise was reached where more populous states did get more power, but was also balanced out by the anti-federal system
You should also mention that both Dakotas have more Norwegian/German influence from 1800/1900's immigration compared to the rest of the country
Former Nazis , you mean?
@@lttrhd ohhh. So original.
Someone who you hate is a Nazi
Give royalties to CNN, sheep
Germans from Russia to be exact and norwegians I guess
Brent or the fact that is illegal to sell beer and pretzels in the same place due to a very dum outdated German law.
Brent my Dad’s side is from Norway and my Mom’s side is from Germany
I went to Sioux Falls a couple weeks ago, it was amazing!
2:32 the kid at the right geting a slam
I live in North Dakota. We never really get any recognition so this is cool.
Hi, I'm from South Dakota. We don't get much recognition, either, but it's definitely more than what North Dakota gets. (I don't mean that in a bad way). So I'm glad we got to share the spotlight.
@@corvidaedalus I live in Saskatchewan north of both of you and I get even less. Regardless you folk down south so dont know what a real winter is about .
@@SaandMaan I have some friends from Saskatchewan (and other parts of Canada). There's no doubt in my mind you guys have much colder winters. I absolutely love Canada (specifically Saskatchewan, British Columbia, and Alberta), although I wish to live in England.
Anyway, sorry for my comment being all over the place, but hello from down under.
@@corvidaedalus much love brother
Hjb - That's what makes it attractive!
No no no no no it’s SDSU vs NDSU, that’s the big rivalry
No! ITS SDSU VS USD!
Luke Overwatch ok but who has won the entire conference 9 times in the last decade??
Luke Overwatch fully agreeing with u here. That’s what everyone fights over in the town I live in anyway.
Luke Overwatch usd all dayyy
I want to see both! There's something very spiritual to me about plains and dryness. I don't even mind if there are cold winters.
This is the 2nd vvideo of yours I've seen and holy shit I'm loving these!!!! SO fun! thanks mate
Legit I was in my pool, in ND. And it went from sunny to gray clouds to thunder to hail, to rain, and back to sunny in less then 10 minutes
One time at our farm it started hailing even though there weren’t any clouds in the sky
You mean you were in your cement pond?...or was that a pothole?
North Dakota Ham it wasn’t an in ground pool smartass
north dakota has no climate
@@birb_ie unbelievably, we actually have more climate than covid cases.....and thats saying something
As an NDSU student, I'm pretty sure football rivalry is bigger between NDSU and SDSU (both teams can easily crush UND and USD in football). Also, North Dakota has nukes, so we've got that going for us I guess.
Sam Sindelar ye it is literally the bison and jackrabbits could DESTROY the coyotes and hawks EASILY
Sam Sindelar ~ South Dakota had 150 Minuteman II nukes until after the Cold War was over. As part of the USA/Russia treaty, the USA was to remove and dismantle/destroy all Minuteman II missiles, missile sites, and missile command centers except 1 non-operative command center and 1 non-operative missile silo which are being used as museum. All Minuteman II missiles in the USA, including North & South Dakota, were removed/destroyed.
Minuteman III and other types of missiles still exist, although South Dakota doesn't have any.
shhhhh don't let them know about the nukes man wtf xD that's like our own statewide secret
SD has nukes to, on your way into Rapid City you can see all of the missile silos and some are even active, but SD and ND have the most nuclear weapons in the US us Dakotans are waiting until we get the signal to the nuke tf out of some assholes😂🤣
Go Bizon! Daughter class of '23
Thank you for the video, very informative.
Love the Dakotas and the video. Would love to see Four Corners states compared, CO vs UT, Phoenix v Tucson, SoCal v NorCal. Thanks for your videos!!
I was born and raised in South Dakota, and this is extremely accurate. I'm impressed!
Alexis Peterson .do you know that south dakota has been sold to the.CHURCH OF CHRIST?the new owner
Alexis Peterson DM me your IG
@@ferapisora7766 can you elaborate? You mean mormonism?
Alexis Peterson, how much would you hate and love a foreigners who currently live there
Not really the USD VS UND rivalry is bs. Its definitely SDSU vs. NDSU
Me, lives in North Dakota: *oH cOOl I nEVer kNeW tHAT!*
Azzy :0 hello fellow citizen
Same tho
I live in the south of Dakota
I'm in nd too
NORTH DAKOTA SUUUUUUCKS!
Great information Mr. Beat I knew nothing about North and South Dakota now I have a little knowledge thumbs up.
I love these! Thank you
Seriously? You didn't mention the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
MrJimbo327 even though they had a motorcycle on the thumb nail lol
The motorcycle rally is lit
black yoshi except when there are more accidents that week than in the whole year
I used to live in Sturgis. I hated the rally with a passion. I always went on vacation during that entire week lol.
I live in sturgis and the rally is a pane in the but
Ok but they got the weather wrong. Who ever heard or “mild summers” in SD. Welcome to 110° weather. Also drier the more west you go. Hun we flooding rn
Yea mild summers is something neither of the Dakota’s have ever seen
If anything its a mild winter at -20 degrease for 3 months out of the year and the occasional slushy roads
Where the fuck are you at that the weather is 110 degrees? It's pretty much 90 across the state.
Bailey Carr same
Seth Oakes I’m right out of Brookings and we had 110 couple Saturday’s ago
Thanks for this video! I'm relocating to ND in a couple of months due to my job in the Air Force. This definitely help me learn a bit about the region.
@RTHA300 #LGBTrights!!! NOW
How you liking it?
My Grandma was born in Bottineau ND in 1894. She was 100% Norwegian. Both her parents grew up in Norway. The family eventually moved from ND to WA (Seattle, then Bellingham).
UND vs USD?! Are you kidding?! Do some research! SDSU vs NDSU is a WAAYYYY bigger rivalry.
Or SDSU and USD
WAAYYY biggger rivalry is actually an understatement there rivalry is at least 344777 times bigger than UND and USD
Why are you even watching this video if South Dakota has pipsqueak schools
@@UNCtarheels71 some bias too apparently
GOO BISON
You didn’t talk about North Dakota’s healthy drinking habits.
Where I live... there is 20 bars and 5 liquor stores for 8000 people. It’s scary on the road.
All that alcohol keeps the blood from freezing solid during the 9 months of winter! I don't drink. You should see my heat bill as a result.
Population is 4,000 here there is 5 bars
@@christian6418 social gathering places.
So are you all alcohol addicted there
G S not addicted, just enjoy it
I enjoy these comparison videos, whether it's places I know little about (the Dakotas) or places I know well.
Income tax in South Dakota: ZERO. I'm moving there and will be proud to call it home!
Just make sure you have plenty of retirement planned for any amount of illness. My parents massive savings only helped for some time and state assistance was just down right insulting. I love South Dakota, but they don't take care of their elderly at all.
And make sure you vote Republican
I moved here because of taxes. I love not paying very much tax. I especially love the no state income tax. However I'm eyeing Florida for retirement and the weather (non hurricane). But we will see.
I dare you to do Wyoming & Colorado next! :D
lol it won't be next, but it's on my list for sure :)
Ah yes, Wyoming The square state
Vali Tsunami what’s Wyoming?
He better get sponsored by SquareSpace if he is covering square states.
Wyoming doesn't exist
When someone makes a video about your state and you remember you exist, because just like the rest of the country you forgot North Dakota existed.
True.
Logan McRoy I was talking to someone online the other day and told them i live in North Dakota and they were like “thats where the heads are right?” Smh
Logan McRoy there is literally nothing interesting in north dakota
Logan you better wrestle next year
Nostalgic Universe someone actually thought Mount Rushmore was in North Dakota?!?! What!?
This channel is the best source on youtube if you really interested in learning about the american culture and love the diversities in the united states, keep going ❤🇺🇸👍🏻
Great video!
North Dakotas also got a big ass milk cow by new Salem😂
J moen BIGGEST COW IN THE WORLD LOL
And a Buffalo
Two albino buffalo in Jamestown... And of course the big buffalo statue.
SUE OMG
Yup
You forgot to mention about the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. That is where Sturgis South Dakota a town of 5,000 people becomes home to half a million bikers for 1 week of the year
Legit the worst time of the year for the road system. It's probably why the interstate is redone every 1-2 years.
Gold mine for wet t - shirt contestants.
I actually don’t like to attend the rally, it’s cool, sure, but I’d rather visit the black hills literally any other time during the summer lmao
Just imagine having to live there😅 never be able to sleep
@@buszgg1769 why wouldn't you be able to sleep?
As a full time rv family in the USA. We absolutely loved South Dakota. So much so that we plan to settle down in a house there someday! 🥰
Fun fact: they never finished carving the crazy horse memorial.
Still in progress as active project.
@@hansenpch Active project huh? Not a lick of progress in 20 years.
Technical mount rushmore isn't finished either
and they never will
Fun fact: Mt Rushmore is also unfinished. 💯👍🏼
ND: Meth, Not even once.
SD: Meth, We're on it.
My town in nd has a very big drug problem inckuding meth , weed, speed, and others
@@tav7312 meth = speed
Didn't the meth follow the oil boom?
@Jesus Christ honestly, these things are everywhere. I live on Vancouver Island where there is a lot to do, and drugs are huge problem out here. We have a giant fentanyl crisis. I am not sure there is anywhere you can go to escape it...
My friend told me about this lol
I will say, East River is more reminiscent of the "classic" Midwest, whereas in West River we're more like The West. If that makes any sense.
Definitely agree with this. You can tell that east river is based on a foundation of farming and ranching, as west river has that mining history. Very different atmosphere on either side of the river.
Well I wouldn't say BASED on considering colonization is only so recent but yeah for Western culture I suppose. I more meant geographic as well.
Summertime is softball season East River and barfight season West River.
East river is more socially progressed, and West river is, well, yeah like the old west.
@@daveee3235 East River is many things. "Socially progressed" isn't one of them.
This is the kinda stuff i like. subbed
I have traveled to all over America and I never feel so at home as when I am in the northern black hills. That is where my sole feels at home.
So, the bottom of your shoe feels more at home there?
You should compare Nuevo México and Arizona.
Nuevo Mexico y Arizona...sí
Sí por favor. I'm watching from New Mexico.
Second
As a southern Arizona resident, I feel like there's generally more comparison with California. Nobody really talks about New Mexico much.
Timothy McCaskey it’s because West Virginia split from Virginia during the Civil War
as a southern californian, north dakota is my favorite state. i love y’all dakotans
Thanks!!!!
Thanks just when you come visit make sure to bring a coat if it's the winter and if it's summer it gets really hot
It’s crazy, most people I know that came to the state either came from Michigan, Iowa, or California.
@@elaineivysart9743 Yeah-but not western North Dakota. Crosby & Williston are basically like living in Arizona.
Thats a win
"due to this, north dakota has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country"
coronavirus: i'm about to do what's called a pro gamer move
I don't know why I needed to know these things but I'm glad I do now
North Dakota is the worst in the winter🙄about 3 weeks before summer break we missed school because of a blizzard
I live in South Dakota and it snowed 4 days before summer break
Never experienced that in sd, but I have 6 years of school left so who knows
Luke Overwatch and for some reason yesterday I could freaking see my breath!! 🤯🤬
Wait did that happen all throughout the state it happened in were I live in Fargo but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was a statewide thing
Yeah, we have had snow in every month of the year. Pretty cool, considering many people havent even seen snow before
Should have been East Dakota and West Dakota.
badlandskid North, south, west and Sioux falls
Except West Dakota would have been dead-ass-broke... But ideologically westriver SD has more in common with westriver ND than it does with eastriver SD
bcblom Naw... western ND has the Bakken oil fields and huge coal reserves. Western ND has been keeping eastern ND afloat for years.
@@badlandskidit's the opposite... The oil fields are on the east
South and North is better
Hey Mr. Beat - Is there a similar interstate rivalry in South Dakota? Also, are there comparison sets among the compared states - within or without regions - as in Mid-West and Western states, Mid Atlantic and Dixie states
There’s a mild rivalry
Me sitting in North Dakota: aw they think its a mild rivalry
My cousin in South Dakota: they have no idea
I grew up in ne corner of ND and didn't know there was a rivalry between East and West River until I moved to bismarck
Time to leave my usual comment requesting Nebraska vs. Iowa, or Omaha vs. Des Moines.
As I am very familiar with those places, I can't wait to make the video. :D
@@iammrbeat Ah yes bless us with this glory.
@@remotelysuspiciousname4462 I'm sure Mr. Beat, as a social studies teacher, would love to do a video on Nebraska. After all, you can't talk to a Cornhusker without getting a history lesson.
GO BIG RED!!!
@Joey Maxon Rancid? There can be a few choice adjectives I would use to describe some of the neighborhoods in Des Moines but rancid is hardly one of them.
Being from SD, this video was very cool and entertaining to watch. If you ever do the East River vs. West River video one point to mention is that West River is super sparsely populated compared to East River. Rapid City also has the hardest to predict and most varied weather out of the whole US (I believe). Spearfish had one of the biggest temperature swings in history. Rapid (again) had one of the top 10 deadliest floods in the world and I think the deadliest in the US (not sure about that though). One last point of interest is the Continental Divide in the North East where rivers run North on the North side and run South on the South side.
South Dakota Homies unite!
This is so interesting topic..... sort of History and Geography..... Thank you!
I really enjoyed this!
South Dakotans invented cul-de-sacs. We got so used to putting our covered wagons in that position that we started building roads that way.
Is that true!
@@radentruman7535 Absolutely. We also put Mt. Rushmore in Rushmore cave after Labor Day to keep it safe for the winter.
Allen Thiele pfftsychfcjn
@@allenthiele1804 I knew that. My face was on Mount Rushmore for awhile, but I got tired of people hounding me for autographs. Sometimes you just wanna go to Wal-Mart in peace.
Let’s GOOOOO!
That orange with the deep voice was spot on, I was thinking you were getting distracted. Thanks orange. With the deep voice.
I still don't know where that orange came from. Florida, I presume.
Mr. Beat well wherever he’s from, he’s clearly a godsend, a credit to your channel. Well done orange, you just make sure you keep Mr. Beat focused, so I can continue to enjoy these videos.
Boo, bad orange. I was hoping to see some dragging of east river.
I love this!!!! Thanks
I’m from Georgia but I’m in love with North Dakota, I want to visit someday
I'm impressed you found enough material on the Dakotas to make a 10 minute long video.
very rich in culture on the contrary
So are all the Dakotans.
The Dakotas are an inspiring culture filled wonderland. I once saw a beaver there
Common. We thought we saw a big bass. It was a beaver
Me too, but I was in high school and was no where near the river.
Beaver of Bearsford?
RettigJ nah nah we got catfish of Baltic South Dakota
I saw a person who lived here…
…Once
Got lost in this... dude! Great videos
Very interesting video 👍
How do you get them mixed up?
One is north,
And
One is South.
OMG one time someone asked my teacher, "so is north dakota south or north of south dakota?" PS he wasnt joking
I thought it was west
Two of my favorite states. When i was a kid, every summer my parents would take us to the black hills, and further west or southwest from there. We just couldn't stay away. As an adult, I've been back 3 times. Now i want to go again. Thank you Mr. Beat
I'm also in love with the Black Hills. I could certainly live there. I mean, Rapid City has life size statues of every President on every corner for crying out loud. :)
North Dakota citizen right here
Mr. Beat I’ve live in South Dakota my whole life. It’s ok
Was born in Spearfish, and the hills are hands down, the best part of the Dakotas.
I live in SD. It's awesome.
Looking forward to the East river/West River Comparison video
Most people only know South Dakota for Mount Rushmore but at the same time most people completely forgot about North Dakota
And as you can see in the far right corner you come upon a random kid getting knocked the frick down 2:30
Rachael Walters gotta toughen up to live in Dakota.
Yep, just like we raise 'em. I got beat with the belt back on the farm. Gotta let kids figure it out.
Satan you sound jaded.
Thank you for doing more of these types of videos! These are my favorite videos!
oh man i love this channel