Population of the USA 🇺🇸 Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line?
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- Have you ever wondered why a significant majority of Americans reside east of a particular line, while only a smaller fraction occupies the western part of the United States? 🇺🇸 Uncover the geographic factors that contribute to this fascinating phenomenon. Discover how the majority of western residents are concentrated in California, Oregon, and Washington within this line, accounting for a significant portion of the region's population. Furthermore, explore the astonishing statistic that only 9% of Americans live in half of the mainland US, equivalent to the population of New York City alone. 😱 Learn about the primary reason behind this geographical distribution: the imposing Rocky Mountains, which serve as a natural barrier to Pacific Ocean rains, creating a phenomenon known as the "rain shadow." Delve into how these mountains hinder cloud movement, impacting precipitation patterns across the country. Explore the intricate interplay between precipitation patterns and wind currents, particularly the influence of Gulf of Mexico winds along the 100th meridian. Understand how these factors contribute to the creation of dry, agriculturally unsuitable regions and their subsequent impact on population density.
The journey through America's diverse geography and uncover the complex dynamics that shape where Americans choose to call home.
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All the wheat in Kansas left the chat.
"Meanwhile all the precipitation from the east could easily penetrate the country."
Appalachian mountains left the chat
Everyone I get it the Applacians are not as tall as the Rockies
LOLz
Interesting
All the corn in South Dakota left the chat too.
Don't forget all the farms in Texas and New mexico
Potatoes from Idaho:
Wheat from Kansas:
Tornadoes in Oklahoma:
Yep, you covered it all
Cotton from Arizona
Idiots from Missouri 💀💀💀
Tons of alfalfa in Colorado as well
something in alabama
Excuse me that “dry land” that isn’t suitable for growing anything produces the majority of the worlds wheat and raises most of the beef ate in the Us.
And also the worst severe weather in the entire world.
Only by pumping all the water out of the ground.
@@wcswood that water in the ground is still water that is accessible on that side of the country. Runoff is significantly more reliable than rainfall. It’s measurable, you’ll know what it’s likely to look like several months out, and it’s not completely decimated by a dry season. On my farm, I could never trust the crops to rainfall alone. No, it’s much safer and much more reliable to irrigate using runoff from wells, rivers, etc.
@@wcswood actually eastern CO ranchers rely solely on rain to grow crops. Speak of only what you know. I grew up there.
@@stephanieburgess8217 Colorado is perhaps an exception to the rule West of the Mississipi.
Also since I don’t think anyone mentioned this. The east side of the United States was developed first. The west side is still relatively “new” in comparison so it makes sense that we have a less dense population.
Dude you guys live in a fucking desert, AND you’re running out of water. It has nothing to do with the fact that it’s newer.
Until all the New Yorkers moved to my wonderful state of California and screwed it up😢
@@user-nb5gs8ch6bCalifornia has been screwed, now you guys are moving everywhere else making it hobo heaven
Plus most of the immigrants came to the east. Of course the illegal ones typical come to the west.
@SM-si5cm Funny way of saying by far the richest, most educated,
and most successful state that literally wrote the legislation that gives you clean water, feeds half the US is alone the 5th largest economy in the world and biggest contributor to welfare to Republican states
This is proof that just because it is a CZcams video with good graphics does not mean that it is accurate
exactly!! So untrue
Right lol, he was trying to say North Dakota can’t grow crops, I grew up there…on a farm lmao
NYC has less than 9 Million people and his graphic says 25M 😂
Hes talking about the metro population @isomchapelle2956
@@gambrazzio6989he is a FACT channel and his FACTS are incorrect. His words and the graphic do not denote Metro Population. Furthermore, this is not the only incorrect FACT presented in this video.
I learned a lot. Not from the short, but from the copious comments correcting the short
Same
Agreed
Haha me too 😂👍
I'm so happy to see people actively participating
😂 Copious.
In New Mexico we grow the world's greatest green chile.. Pinto Beans. Squash.. Pistachios.. Corn.. We are so blessed..
sorry bud your farmland doesn't compare to alabamas
thts thanks to the fact that green chiles thrive in that climate everything else is due to modern farming techniques
And I have a Farm smack dab in the middle of that😂
It’s Trump (hillbill) country 😂😂😂
Basically in a nutshell "Where the water goes we go"
Besides the fact that this video is simply wrong. The entire country is fairly evenly spread outside of the bigger cities
Not only water but a balance between the main elements (earth, water, sun, wind)
Also put in historical migration patterns that most came into the new world from the eastern coast
More like Oil haha
Some tell Africa this information. Go to where the water is
The biggest reason is the Orgeon Trail and Gold Rush. The people during that time believed the land was dry and even called Kansas and Oklahoma a desert because they believed there was just nothing, so they moved to California and Oregon. But when people started settling in the Great Plains they realized it's really good farmland for stuff like wheat
This is true but corporations are running almost 90% of all farm land and destroying the agriculture industry. Especially in the Midwest. It's sad. Almost all those small towns are ghost towns.
I guess u been eating too much sweets, it's desert*
@@hypnosiss777 lol my bad I suck at spelling thank you for pointing that out
A better word to use instead of Midwest is Great Plains. Midwest is a different region more centered around most of the Great Lakes and surrounding area, while the Great Plains fall within that 9% on this map for the most part
@@Takezhu88 yes your right I will change that
I flew over the Rocky mountains over the weekend from LA. Gorgeous!
Alaska be like : you didnt have to cut me off
I live in Alaska 🥲
this comment has me cacklin at 3 am 🤣🤣
I agree with these folks.. driving through Iowa and Kansas i saw a lot of corn. One thing about the west is that the humidity is low in most places.
Yeah, lived in iowa all my life, pretty much all corn and the occasional town or one of the three cities
I can’t handle high humidity
So the narrator of this video can not sleep because of this.
You saw a lot of corn there
Come through Nebraska
The corn is to destroy old engines in vehicles that don't use computers. I read it on another CZcams comment thread, so I think it's reliable.
Would you mind looking into the US ethanol conspiracy and reporting back to me? I'm much too busy and lazy.
Correction: Not 11% of all those living in the west, 11% of the entire population
They’re all joke numbers. 50 million represents 11% of the US population? How much population does the presenter think we have?
@@arcade85_ us pop is 330m, 11% is 36.3m but there's also illegal immigrants etc so
@@alch8485340 million is 2024
Occupy is the correct word. Occupied and mssmrderd all of the natives
I.e. 55% of those living in the west
i'm from las vegas, and despite the hot weather there is just something to be said about how uninhabited the rest of the west is. It feels good to me.
I visited Denver and Seattle, drove around those states. Immediately noticed how empty it was.
Denver is not a state.
Pretty sure Nebraska would argue against this point. In fact the reason it is so "underpopulated" is because there is so much farm land and less industrial complex that requires dense population.
No. A huge portion, 1/4 is sand. Literally. Without irrigation the parts of Nebraska that are farmed would be much less productive.
This enraged me
Industrial complexes don’t require dense populations.
Industrial complexes arise from dense populations.
Youre saying it backwards. If Nebraska were densely populated then it would have industrial complexes to support the population. 🤦♂️
Yes but even then it would be low density farming since it is low precipitation. Most of Australia is like this as well, which is why our population is 90% hugging the coast.
Ya but their soil ain’t got shxt on idaho
Alaska: Am I invisible to you?
It wasn't until I moved to Alaska that I noticed how often we aren't even there. It's fitting cause the news here barely talks about the lower 48.
Pretty much...except for your salmon and bears of all manner.
and Hawaii...
No I am jealous of you cause I am in Arizona I love it hear but need more fish.
Alaska is Russian
This also plays a big role in why we have something called tornado alley.
It’s apparent that most of you don’t understand infrastructures role in modern agriculture. You can grow food anywhere you can transport water to, however, that is expensive and the help of nature is always best.
Here's the real reason. Because America started in the East. We settled the entire East Coast bringing in people from England. People started moving west as more and more land was accumulated. The California gold rush saw MANY people migrate to try to get rich. Which is why the West Coast is so populated. The land in between was mostly settled by people who were given free land to start farming. And not everyone had luck.
include the fact that 75% of all humans live within 100 miles of a coastline, and I think you're on solid ground there.
Thank you. Makes sense!
Also forgot to include that while so many people were migrating west for the gold rush, some families ended up stuck, out of supplies and money, and had to make a living and ended up settling wherever they were at in-between the two coasts
Also add in the fact that building the railroads brought towns to most of the rest of the land that was empty
Italians, Irish, Germans also came from the east.
Also one thing that was not mentioned was the amount of federal land that cannot be bought
Yeah, the globalists want to keep the assets for themselves.
I understand. I live in
NV & most of my
state, is federally
owned land/is owned
by BLM (Bureau of
Land Management).
@@lynettetaravella2578 sothe underground citys are located there ?
Everything isn't for sale. Nor should it be.
@@77Creation so true
_"The main reason is geography."_
No way, man. What a twist!
We have a similar phenomenon west of the great dividing range in Queensland Australia, creating hot outback conditionions.
As a Coloradoan I can say I am drowning in snow from precipitation
Same.
Not related but still. Did you know that Colorado means Red in Spanish??
I can confirm.
It’s extremely dry which it’s why it snows and doesn’t rain often. And the snow melts into water which is why certain segments of the Rocky Mountains are green.
@@erikvidal9732 it doesn't. Red is rojo
I'm pretty sure that the massive percentage of land that the government owns West of that line might have something to do with it as well.
Like what ?
@@loredanadodson1602For example here's some of the percentages of land owned by the federal government: Nevada 84.94%
Utah 64.9%
Idaho 61.63%
Alaska 61.24%
Oregon 52.95%
Wyoming 48.14%
California 45.77%
Arizona 38.61%
Colorado 35.9%
New Mexico 34.7%
Good thing, otherwise where else would the natural world exist?
They do
@@kevinp1972 I think that you're making the assumption that just because the federal government owns a piece of land that they must be preserving the natural beauty. Am I experiencing there's a lot of other things that they do with land that they own, for example ask Nevada how many times they have been nuked, or here in New Mexico we not only had nuke tests but there's missle ranges, hazardous waste storage, and lots of land that they lease to ranchers. And that's just on the federal part, states own a lot of lands as well which artificially keeps the population down (recognizing of course that there's other factors). But to go back to what the clip itself is about, there's a reason why the population is spread out the way that it is, and what you'll find is that people who live in areas with very little federally owned land tend to have much higher approval ratings of the federal government owning land because of the whole not in my backyard effect. And when we have people seriously arguing that most of not all major decisions at a National level should be made by pure majority votes instead of say the Senate it sure feels like the states with very little federally and state owned land are screwing over the rest of us.
Not that much water. Incredibly simple answer.
As someone who lives in Idaho, it is very wet here and you are wrong.
Kansas has a pretty big farming industry and the Rocky Mountains don’t block all of the rain. The moisture comes from the pacific into Mexico and up into plains.
If anything you get more rain because of the Rockies
I sure am glad those 80% live over there, I love my wide open spaces, mountains and endless farmland as far as you can seeI
Does it rain??
It does sounds nice ngl
Which city?
But it should said not suitable for agriculture so it just be a desert.
I yam jealous
As someone who lives in the uk, I would love to have no rain.
Meanwhile Utah: LETS MAKE IT SNOW DURING SUMMER!
As someone who lives in that 9%, it's hella pretty❤
Away from all politics and republicans.
Bruh no one besides weirdos actually care about politics 😂
@@theomegamuffin7346lol not true. Most people have moved to these areas because of stupid politics
@@afnanhaider7083I like how you said "away from all politics" while making it clear you're into politics
@@davezedman what studies say this?
New York City does not have 25M people, as seen in the video. That is the entire state of New York. NYC has a population of around 8 million people.
Metro population is around 18 million. New York state is mostly empty
@@stanvolyou didn't want the video I guess
@@leobender2910 that still leaves 7 million people outside nyc and it’s not a big state. Wyoming is nearly double the size of New York State and has less than 500k people. NY state is far from empty
@@connormoon8363 Wyoming is one of the states of the empty interior, of course it's even emptier, why not compare it to Nevada then? New York is nowhere near being small, it stretches from the Atlantic shore to the Great Lakes and it is mostly empty with much smaller population clustered around Albany, Rochester and Buffalo which altogether amounts to about only 3 million people.
There are 7 million people in all of Tennessee
Cause I'm being followed by a rain shadow, rain shadow rain shadow. Leaking and dropping from a rain shadow, rain shadow, rain shadow. 🎶🎶
This explaination definitely deserves a subscribtion
Well the 9% are still more than the entire population of Australia, which is an area three times larger 🤯
And most of us live along a thin strip of our east coast too.
Youre a kangaroo hunter
Who the hell lives in Australia😂
@@QwonDreaKangaroo and Uncle James
@@QwonDrea pretty much no-one. It’s mostly empty.
Australia would be pretty cool if it weren't for the government. And the lack of guns.
The Gold rush and Oregon Trail were a major factor so I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned. Nice short though.
Same! I got excited waiting for the "yup I knew it!" moment, but it never came :/
Just finished reading "The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck. He retravelled the Oregon Trail and then wrote about it, it's an AWESOME book and something I wish schools would have children read when learning about the 1800s
Short is wrong
And in the west, another major factor.....free land was giving to whoever want to settle to the west. Dont forget that part. And no tax for a couple of years
I think they were looking at it with a more geographical standpoint than with a historical standpoint.
Never thought about it, but that was actually interesting, thanks :)
How did a CZcamsr do a better and shorter job explaining rain shadows than my science teacher
As an atmospheric science major this short has literally zero actual facts in it at all. The reason why the deserts of the US exist has to do with the dry adiabatic descent which causes the air to warm and dry out. The eastern side of the Rockies is actually one of the most important regions for the creation of large weather systems. Storms do not move from the east coast into the middle of the country because general flow in the northern hemisphere is to the east not the west. Air from the gulf initially flows northward until the general flow to the east entrains it and is responsible for much of the severe weather that the plains and southern locations of the US experience. Also much of the states bordering the east of the Rockies are full of very sparsely populated agricultural land where a sizeable percentage of all crops are grown.
whomp whomp
Also zero actual facts. Prove it.
Thank you
This whole video is full of 💩 even called the Sierra Nevada range all of the Cascades. Just 20 miles south of Phoenix, AZ there is a lot of farming
@@samsonacc8081 No, he's right.
Nothing better than living in states with very few people. As a truck driver, I quickly bought land in Wyoming after I started driving.
Lowest taxes in the country too
Wyoming is nice
Do you get to spend much time there?
@@edwardhoward4708 I also own a home in Missouri so, I’m in Wyoming roughly 1/3 of the year
@@conrail666 Yeah, but very lacking in modern amenities like Uber and delivery service, or fun stuff, restaurants, if you want that.
The actual reason is water scarcity, one source supplies almost the full 9%. RealLifeLore has some great videos on this.
Water. There's rivers and lakes in more of the east.. there's also the wild desert mountains and really large national parks taking up those big states.
In terms of agriculture on the western side, more than 25 percent of the US's lettuce and leafy green supply, comes from southern Arizona, near Yuma, imperial Valley, etc.
Not for much longer…
The water is under the land and deserts. Primary water. Artisan wells go deep. No water shortages anywhere on earth.
@@shacktime weatherWars
San Joaquin Valley use to be called the salad-bowl to the world. Pelosi and her mod-squad has basically destroyed due to 2 inch fish😮
After using most of the Colorado River for alfalfa, the rest gets used up at the border.
Alaska and Hawaii:ight we're gonna head out
No there not states
You're a state@@isaacmusicant-bijak6215
Alaska is too cold and Hawaii is too far.
@@isaacmusicant-bijak6215 they're literally the 49th and 50th states respectively, both admitted into the union in the year 1959. So idk wtf you're talking about - a person from Alaska
@@aliciachristopher6506People still live there though... The US isn't just the Lower 48/contiguous states. Not to mention territories like Guam or Puerto Rico
And that is also why we don’t have hurricanes…which makes me very happy about living on this side.
We hittin Utah with this one 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
Thats why Wisdom, knowledge and research is most important
Rt like the native Americans figured it out
Cause then you'd know about tornados and how they lift houses off the ground all the time, if it can lift a house it can displace water and crops, this guy doesn't even have the real facts, but also yes that 9% area is a desert essentially.
Still doesn’t know which country is which in Europe
We rode our cycles up through NW Nebraska, over to Wyoming, and looped around through South Dakota (Black Hills). BEAUTIFUL country, clean air, no traffic, friendly people, and a peace like I've never felt before!!!!
Did the same on my motorcycle. Epic trip. Never felt so free in my life. America the beautiful!🇺🇸
Took my mom on a trip to mt rushmore. As you get near, the hills and rock formations are honestly breathtaking
😂😂😂😂
It’s very beautiful. Please don’t move here.
And racism!!! Oh wait you are prob white so didn’t get any hate.
I live in the 9% area and I’ve watched it grow too fast, driving up traffic, prices, and making activities too crowded. It certainly doesn’t feel that sparse anymore.
This supports the idea of life cycles as well. In order to survive. Life needs ease of access Food and water. These regions provide this concept. Also, this statistic also proves the ability for life to adapt and over come by life living in more undesirable environments.
I live in NV in the rain shadow of the Cascade Range. We have an average of 330 days of sun here and very little rainfall. We are in a high desert, so we do get snow. And we have greenery here, even naturally, because of the snowmelt in the nearby Lake Tahoe region. It surprising how much life can exist on so little rainfall.
This Californian loves Nevada. So much history, mountains and wide open spaces. ❤
Cascades or Sierra? I lived in Reno, definitely the Sierra range
@@GabrielGarcia-300 the Sierra Range is an offshoot of the Cascades. I'm in Reno as well. Actually, Sparks. If you look at the Cascade range in the video, it actually extends down through the Sierras
@@micahmiller5923 do some research on it, even a quick Google search. They are separate ranges. I've been a climber for 20 years and lived up and down the west side from Seattle to Auburn, CA, and Reno. I know my mts
A little rain fall؟؟؟ in the past few months ever since August of last year we’ve had more rain than ever. What are you talking about little rainfall 😂
On another note, this is by far the best animation to show how/why tornado alley forms tornadoes
Rain: we need to past those border!
Golf of mexico :"Nuh uh"
I live here in Utah and we grow alfalfa and hay. Also I love these mountains. They are absolutely breathtaking and beautiful. The trees and the wildlife is gorgeous. We get a lot of tourists here and I don't blame them
New york state has five million less, you showed the state population, not the city
NYC metro is 20+ mil
@@kentvaccaro5998which is stupid as it also covers three states. You subtracting the number of people in the NY metro area from the state populations of New Jersey and Connecticut? Didn't think so.
8.5 million
@@kentvaccaro5998 8.5 million
18. Mil.
Son : Dad, we are buying a new house.
Dad : Let me study the geography first.
Why would the son be telling the dad that the family is buying a new house?
@@NoHandle44 the son is young Sheldon
@@robertgough161 Then shouldn't the son be studying the geography?
@@NoHandle44 hmm maybe
@NoHandle44 sons grow up and dads can still be around and still do Dad things
Thank you for this information!
Yup my thoughts for the midstates. I have to admire the courage of those who live in the tornado alley states.
In Nebraska we get a significant amount of tornado watches and warning every year, that's all ya need to know
And it is sooooo flat!
Yeah, there was a warning a few days ago
I say the same as a Kansan
not recently
@@jennamarie4009 Shhhhhhh! Don't jinx it.
It happens to all contries, the dense population tends to appear by the warm, moist coasts
New York is certainly moist, but IDK if I'd say warm... Maybe if you only count summer.
@@Burbun Warmest places are also not the most populated by humans. There is also a relation with the amount of sea food. Generally cooler ocean water is more rich in food than warmer water. And people also eat a lot of sea food.
So in that sense cooler climates tend to be a bit more favourable than the hot ones.
In Europe this is all even stronger, because Southern Europe has dry summers due to the influence of the Africa continent
While a lot of the southern US benefits from the Gulf of Mexico and therefore has a wet summer.
And it goes even further than that. A lot of warm water from the Gulf of Mexico flows towards the North Atlantic Ocean, resulting in more rain in Northern Europe.
Clear and concise explication, thank you so much
This video is so well made 👏
I love the mountains in New Mexico. It's gorgeous here
In deed the enchantment state NW love 😊it
Love the land and weather here. Unfortunately the state is high in crime, school rank among last in the nation and drugs flooding in from the southern border. Not to mention abq is full of homeless at every street corner… been a blue state for a long time
@@MrSturdystratusYeah.....no homeless in red Florida or red Texas.???
@@jstravelers4094 far less homeless and crime. Those states actually prosecute criminals and hold them accountable, not in New Mexico they don’t.
Montana: number one state for hard red winter wheat. It's what's used to bake your bead because it has the highest amount of protein. Kansas and Nebraska grow wheat and corn. To much rain is bad for those crops. Also, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana were all upwind from the nuclear testing fallout (just a side note).
Too few "o"s in the word "too" is bad for clear elucidation.
Rianne is getting a double master's degree currently. Tuition is high; sometimes shaving a vowel off a sound alike word is the only way to afford food besides ramen noodles.
Yeah this video is chock full of inaccuracies. Misinformation like this short is dangerous.
Alaska : what did i do?
downwind.
As someone who's flown over that part of the US a few times, I can confirm, it's pretty brown looking down there from the sky.
The video description contains some misinformation and exaggerates certain points:
- Misleading Statistic: While the population density is lower in the western half of the US compared to the east, stating only 9% live there is misleading. The actual figure is closer to 40%.
- Oversimplification: The Rocky Mountains are a significant factor, but not the only reason for the population distribution. Factors like deserts, availability of water sources, and historical settlement patterns also play a role.
- Focus on Negatives: The description paints the western half as mainly dry and unsuitable for agriculture. While some areas are arid, there are also fertile regions and major agricultural production in the West.
As someone living in that lowest population area of the Rockies (Colorado) I have some first hand knowledge. Problems with this video: 1. This is not how the Rockies affects the weather. They don't stop clouds, and clouds do exist over 14,000 feet. They exist much higher as well as lower. I have personally watched clouds go right around peaks, engulfing them, then passing right on by. The mountains do not stop clouds. 2. This is not what rain shadow is. 3. There is no invisible line where the weather patterns change directions. 4. We do grow some things, it's just limited, where you make it seem like nothing does at all. 5. You're completely ignoring ranching and the raising of animals for the food supply. 6. You're also ignoring mining and forestry to make tech items and houses. 7. You're also ignoring the huge military presence. 8. A huge portion of the bottled water that exists comes from this area, as well as a lot of alcoholic drinks and hay and straw for animals. Super incorrect video that only happens to have good graphics with simplistic and overall inaccurate information. Thank you for making me and everyone I know feel like we don't exist at all.
Vielen Dank für diese freundliche Korrektur. Grüße aus Deutschland. 🇩🇪👍🍀
I live in Southern Colorado. We have lots of farm land that grow huge fields of pinto beans, Pueblo chilies, some of the sweetest cantaloupe and different varieties of sweet corn, and all kinds of other vegetables. Also, when I lived in Kansas I remember miles and endless miles of wheat fields. They were fun to run through with my two dogs and a lamb.
8. A huge portion of the bottled water that exists comes from this area, I have a big doubt
as a Wyoming resident, thee is something called “ground water” and “grazing land”. This guy is a joke.
@Tam_Eiki western colorado here. We have peaches, chilli's, berries, corn etc AND are the second biggest producer of wine grapes only second to Napa Valley CA!
This video is so Inaccurate it's laughable
In other words… A FU*KING DESERT
What’s really crazy is Alaska is about 1/5 the size of the lower 48 but only around .3- .4 of a percent of the population lives there
That was a long-winded explanation for my answer when I heard the question at the beginning; "It's a fuckin' desert."
Because the Mayflower landed on the east coast and over the next few hundred years we slowly expanded into the wildlands to the west. I learned this in elementary school in the 90s.
but did you learn CALI' s GDP is one of the largest in the US and it and TEXAS have over +30MIL ppl??!......lol
@@lintran3211Makes sense the land is good and it was very well marketed.
Comment section historian here 🤚 glad u remember 2nd grade history lesson from 1994, so why is LA the second most populated city compared to any city on the east coast other than new york, the east is more feasible for growing agriculture and transportation, (great lakes, mississippi river, atlantic ocean and gulf of Mexico, all water body’s to export and import), the rockies make travel difficult and the great plains weather sucks,
That's a lie. That never happened
@@pacojuanrico7083 Dude, you can't troll over such a blatant fact.
Meanwhile Alaska: 🌨️🌨️🌨️🥶🥶🥶🥶
Siberia: 🌬️🐻❄️🌨️
Wow! That’s good to know because I’ve always thought about that. Planning on moving to the east side soon.
I am grateful I am part of the 9% he mentioned when talking about the population of the Rocky Mountain region of the United States.
it must be great living on the farms (I always dream about that)
Real. Glad it is this way.
The plumbing sucks there.
@@domingonavarro1288 really? We have amazing plumbing. That is also quite the generalization considering about 1/4-2/5ths of the US is in the Rocky Mountain region.
I love the rocky mountain vistas, the snow caps, fresh streams that feed our Snake River in SE Idaho. I love the 4 seasons and all the dramatic changes in our scenery. Come visit, just don't decide to stay and ruin our 😊 way of life. (Where we cling to our God, our guns, our 👪 families and our religion.)...or something similar to that. 😅
You heard of Australia? 2% of the population lives in the MASSIVE inland, the other 98% only live very close to the coast
I live about an hour from the East coast and I don’t have a pool so during summer it’s not very pleasant. Temperatures here can get up to 40 degrees Celsius so imagine being more inland.
@@olivia-oz3qe yeah I know, I’m Australian, but I luckily have a pool
Im Australian and I have never lived more than an hour from the beach. Right now less than a kilometer. The outback is rough
I lived in central South Australia for a while. Never wanted to live out that way again, high temp gives me headaches and living there as a kid meant I had an almost permanent one. Plus the town had a population of less than 10 and most of them were one a certain registry. Not the best place to live
@@olivia-oz3qe40 Celsius goddamnn
I learned something new thanks
Well unlearn it, because this video is wrong, read the comments. That land isn't poor agricultural land, its THE RICHEST land, where all our food is grown. And the Rockies don't "block the rain"
I live in MT and the amount of folks countering this video because their state grows corn or wheat is mind boggling. There are aqueduct systems that allows for irrigation of farms miles away from the source. The land is still dry in contrast to the eastern states. There's a reason the dust bowl didn't occur in the eastern US.
Utah is gorgeous! The culture is crazy, but the topography is breathtaking.
lol pretty but not exactly climate friendly! nice to visit! but you couldnt pay me enough to live there!
Please don't move to utah. We are over run by idiots out of California. Let's just repeat that utah is a dumb place to live.
Shut up..don't tell anyone!
The culture of… Utah?
@@ericktellez7632 Cults. NorCal has a similar problem.
Early explorers called basically the western 2/3rds of the US "The Great American Desert". What's amazing is how much Americans have gone on to settle and develop it.
My pasture last summer, was over my head...because we got plenty of rain. SNOW gives many of the western states, it's irrigation water. You can KEEP your humidity on the coasts. Was brought up in high humid area. NO thanks.
Early explorers?! Early colonizers and settlers you mean.
@maaziy_ghaziyIYI Explorers too.
@@maaziy_ghaziyIYIyup
@maaziy_ghaziyIYI Explorers too.
we should build a wind channel on top of the mountains so thats some of the air can pass through the mountains im sure we could do it
Water when towns were established the first thing they needed was water they are along the water, rivers, lakes, or the coast
So that’s why Texas where I live we have dry days for so many days in a row and then all of a sudden it rains
No its because of cowboys
Yep, Texas weather is bi polar. You have hot days for weeks, then one heavy storm brings heavy rains, then about 2 days later, it's hot
T@28ebdh3udnav TALK ABOUT BI POLAR. IT IS MARCH 27TH 2024 AND I HAVE THE HEATER ON IN DALLAS TEXAS.
Man, I used to live in South Dakota. That is the definition of Farmville. What is he talking about? And trust me we get plenty of rain over there.
I live in the UK but I know South Dakota is pretty flat
i live in colorado and those percentages make zero sense to me based on how busy the denver highways and streets are, it seems crazy packed here now so i cant imagine cities east of that line.
As someone who lives in one of the northern and mountainous states on the left side of this “border”, I can confidently say that we get a thousand times more rain that cali
It is not just for agriculture, trade depends heavily on waterways or seas
I live in Kansas. Um... "not suitable for agricultural production".... not sure where you got that idea.
Corn, soybean, wheat, and more.
Also, the US Immigration took root on the east coast so naturally developed a higher population density. The California Gold Rush pulled in east coast dwellers to the west coast. It's not just geography, it's history.
By sucking the aquifers dry.
🫵😂
All these crops you mentioned can grow on nutrition, poor soil!!
High intensity crops can't grow there without artificial help!
just asking but how's life in kansas right now cause I used to live in kansas but I moved and I would like to know
Bro I live in the east and we be having tornadoes and storms every couple days💀
Short answer: Desert, Hot, Dry
Simplified but definitely oversimplified. I observe a lot of weather in my line of work and, the majority of the time, it travels from west to east or from the southwest to the northeast depending on the pressure systems.
I feel like I was watching a Clash of Clans strategy
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“The western states receive little precipitation”
Utah which receives blizzards almost every 2 winters:
I live in kansas and the amount of rain we get in the spring is wild
Arizona's got quite a bit of agriculture tbh. Lots of cotton and citrus tho. Even more ranching and livestock.
Arizona is gonna get a rude awakening. The Colorado River is slowly shrinking and no longer can provide the amounts of water to each state that it is entitled to based on a water agreement from over 100 years ago. And amongst all of the states that get their water from the Colorado river, Arizona has the most JUNIOR water rights. Phoenix is the 5th largest city in the US. Man, are they screwed.
@@jpsnCoSpringsthat's because California takes the majority of the water in the Colorado. Hense why Arizona is building s desalinization plant in Mexico.
@@jpsnCoSprings I've heard that the land where Phoenix and suburbs are located has a groundwater supply that would last *centuries* at current consumption rates. There doesn't seem to be any political will to use well systems to tap into that water supply.
@@chetpomeroy1399 There are already areas that have either run dry or fallen below the hundred-year level and construction has been put to a stop. There's a LOT of three-card monty involved in making it look like there's a lot of water where there really isn't.
@@jpsnCoSprings The so-called "experts" have been saying this for the past *50 years.* Then came the Central Arizona Project.
Budweiser has a wheat/bottling plant in Idaho Falls ID, pulling wheat form Surrounding areas. So on this side of the line Yeah theres Wheat...
New York City doesn’t have a population of 25 million 😂 it’s only around 8.8 million
My god.... as someone living in Idaho Falls (and have always loved it here), I think that's the first time I've seen my city mentioned online
Like the vedio says, its not the best, especially in early times
Yeah, Idaho Falls, with great water to make that good beer!
@@wakeupidiotsnow2611 fr fr. In all actuality though it's kinda funny that Budweiser has a beer bottling plant in Idaho, the state every now associates with potatoes
The line through Texas from dam near Mexico to Canada on the eastern side includes the eastern parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, and Iowa and Oklahoma and Texas . The western side of where only 9% live is Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico
We can still grow some things. The worst thing is it’s just stupid hot in the middle of spring through the middle of fall.
As a Utahn in the 9% I feel very patriotic
Ahhh...... Utah, magic underwear and planet Kolob!
@@gd2bking1I’m from Utah, I’ve never gotten any magic underwear🤔
@@gd2bking1I’m from Utah too where are you finding magic underwear??!?!??
I'm from Utah, where could I find magic underwear? 👀
Same