Why 80% of Americans Live East of This Line
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There are rivers on the east coast that are so old that they flow the wrong direction through the mountains (not what you would assume to be downhill, because they predate the mountains.
Consequently, there is huge biodiversity in addition to the water. The Appalachians have more salamanders then anywhere else in the world. because they are that old. Billions of years.
The Rockies are just striplings.
Date: 2023-12-14
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-jaxontheboss2319
I live in the Eastern Texas Hill Country and I can confirm 100% that that boundary between arid and wet is spot on and very accurate that boundary is placed just a tad bit to the east of where I live and most of the time whenever a storm system comes areas east of us always get way more rain than we do luckily we're far enough East to where we still get a good amount of rain and it's not like out here it doesn't rain a lot either and just because this is the average does it mean when your it can't rain more further west because it absolutely can but this will definitely impact future generations forever very significantly.
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I live in the Eastern Texas Hill Country and I can confirm 100% that that boundary between arid and wet is spot on and very accurate that boundary is placed just a tad bit to the east of where I live and most of the time whenever a storm system comes areas east of us always get way more rain than we do luckily we're far enough East to where we still get a good amount of rain and it's not like out here it doesn't rain a lot either and just because this is the average does it mean when your it can't rain more further west because it absolutely can but this will definitely impact future generations forever very significantly.
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-jaxontheboss2319
I live in the Eastern Texas Hill Country and I can confirm 100% that that boundary between arid and wet is spot on and very accurate that boundary is placed just a tad bit to the east of where I live and most of the time whenever a storm system comes areas east of us always get way more rain than we do luckily we're far enough East to where we still get a good amount of rain and it's not like out here it doesn't rain a lot either and just because this is the average does it mean when your it can't rain more further west because it absolutely can but this will definitely impact future generations forever very significantly.
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I live in the Eastern Texas Hill Country and I can confirm 100% that that boundary between arid and wet is spot on and very accurate that boundary is placed just a tad bit to the east of where I live and most of the time whenever a storm system comes areas east of us always get way more rain than we do luckily we're far enough East to where we still get a good amount of rain and it's not like out here it doesn't rain a lot either and just because this is the average does it mean when your it can't rain more further west because it absolutely can but this will definitely impact future generations forever very significantly.
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-tommunyon2874
I was born, and spent my childhood years in the West in a location that is 1, 000 ft. higher than the highest point in Appalachia. The impact of having a National Scientific Laboratory as the mainstay of my hometown's economy gave many of us a leg up on scientific education. Visiting relatives in the Midwest also gave me insight into the dramatic differences in climate and vegitative patterns, but I never thought of these concepts in the details presented here. Quite a comprehensive overview.
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I was born, and spent my childhood years in the West in a location that is 1, 000 ft. higher than the highest point in Appalachia. The impact of having a National Scientific Laboratory as the mainstay of my hometown's economy gave many of us a leg up on scientific education. Visiting relatives in the Midwest also gave me insight into the dramatic differences in climate and vegitative patterns, but I never thought of these concepts in the details presented here. Quite a comprehensive overview.
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-garyhoward2490
Shush!
Don't tell the easterners about the west!
There are already way to many here now!
Your messing up our plan to get them to move back east, and down south!
Once they are all gone, we can lift the veil of the trashy, addicted, homeless charade.
Remember. there are tons of seemingly, out of work, actors, in the west.
They are not, out of work. they are acting like addicts, to get the eastern transplants to move back to the east, and the south!
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Shush!
Don't tell the easterners about the west!
There are already way to many here now!
Your messing up our plan to get them to move back east, and down south!
Once they are all gone, we can lift the veil of the trashy, addicted, homeless charade.
Remember. there are tons of seemingly, out of work, actors, in the west.
They are not, out of work. they are acting like addicts, to get the eastern transplants to move back to the east, and the south!
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-ManiaMac1613
In 2021 I drove across the U. S. from Maryland to California. I don-t think many people understand how jaw-droppingly enormous the U. S. truly is. Across the relatively narrow sliver of the continental United States I drove, 90% of it was almost completely empty. I saw everything from forests to warm deserts to frozen wastelands all in the course of just a week. It's a beautiful, diverse, but often harsh and inhospitable place to live.
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In 2021 I drove across the U. S. from Maryland to California. I don-t think many people understand how jaw-droppingly enormous the U. S. truly is. Across the relatively narrow sliver of the continental United States I drove, 90% of it was almost completely empty. I saw everything from forests to warm deserts to frozen wastelands all in the course of just a week. It's a beautiful, diverse, but often harsh and inhospitable place to live.
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-14numberYes
that line, also separates the states ive been too, and the ones i havnt, (i live in the 30% of the 20% area) lol, eastern washington, never gone to any of the states that are past the line, but ive been to EVERY single state in the side i live on, washington, montana, cali, oklahoma, arizona-(my favorite, nevada, (las vegas, wyoming, colorado, texas, new mexico, and wtv else there is, + mexico the country
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that line, also separates the states ive been too, and the ones i havnt, (i live in the 30% of the 20% area) lol, eastern washington, never gone to any of the states that are past the line, but ive been to EVERY single state in the side i live on, washington, montana, cali, oklahoma, arizona-(my favorite, nevada, (las vegas, wyoming, colorado, texas, new mexico, and wtv else there is, + mexico the country
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-Sebastian-hi9te
Fort Worth and Witchita Falls are still pretty green, the plants aren't dying. 25 years ago Al Gore said we had 10 years before the earth burned up and everyone died. Im guessing he was wrong about that. Natural climate change cycles do exist and we are currently in a warming cycle right now. We are gonna be alright
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Fort Worth and Witchita Falls are still pretty green, the plants aren't dying. 25 years ago Al Gore said we had 10 years before the earth burned up and everyone died. Im guessing he was wrong about that. Natural climate change cycles do exist and we are currently in a warming cycle right now. We are gonna be alright
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-ES_Views169
I grew up in Southern California and I hated the West Coast. I always wanted to move to the East Coast. When I turned 32 I moved to Philadelphia. It was the best move of my life. East Coast is way better than the West Coast. Amazing how 3, 000 miles separates the 2 coasts.
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I grew up in Southern California and I hated the West Coast. I always wanted to move to the East Coast. When I turned 32 I moved to Philadelphia. It was the best move of my life. East Coast is way better than the West Coast. Amazing how 3, 000 miles separates the 2 coasts.
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-brandonbuckles826
I live just down the road from Mt. Mitchell. I love roadtripoing around the US! It's so fascinating. The sheer number of different landscapes is so cool to see. California alone contains all 6 of the world's major biomes.
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I live just down the road from Mt. Mitchell. I love roadtripoing around the US! It's so fascinating. The sheer number of different landscapes is so cool to see. California alone contains all 6 of the world's major biomes.
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-Scipio488
It's mountains and desert and therefore much less hospitable so fewer people live there. Every American knows -- or should know-- this. Talking about it hyperbolically and breathlessly doesn't make it shocking or surprising.
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It's mountains and desert and therefore much less hospitable so fewer people live there. Every American knows -- or should know-- this. Talking about it hyperbolically and breathlessly doesn't make it shocking or surprising.
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reallifelore
I'm from Ohio and I recently drove out to Colorado Springs. It was such an amazing experience to see the in-between; Kansas was oddly beautiful. I thought I lived in the country, but this me realize I don't.
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I'm from Ohio and I recently drove out to Colorado Springs. It was such an amazing experience to see the in-between; Kansas was oddly beautiful. I thought I lived in the country, but this me realize I don't.
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-happydragon1611
One time my family was on a road trip to Oregon and we lived on the east side of the border. I found it beguiling that we saw a sign that warned us there wasn't a gas station for fifty one miles -
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One time my family was on a road trip to Oregon and we lived on the east side of the border. I found it beguiling that we saw a sign that warned us there wasn't a gas station for fifty one miles -
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-user-ox1mb5si3j
If you take out Southern California, the country west of the Mississippi is remarkably barren. And yes that includes Texas since 75 percent of its residents live on just 4 percent of its land.
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If you take out Southern California, the country west of the Mississippi is remarkably barren. And yes that includes Texas since 75 percent of its residents live on just 4 percent of its land.
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-nickname_somewhat
so, how to retret Water at yhe west to the east in US, 1) diwide mountains (not cheap, 2) prolong western river streams by pipes to the east semi-deserts using automated vehicles -
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so, how to retret Water at yhe west to the east in US, 1) diwide mountains (not cheap, 2) prolong western river streams by pipes to the east semi-deserts using automated vehicles -
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-tldr7730
Cannot help to be astonished, how a multitude of facts, that would have easily fulled a text of twelve entire sentences, were squeezed into just 20 minutes of video. ;-)
Keep on!
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Cannot help to be astonished, how a multitude of facts, that would have easily fulled a text of twelve entire sentences, were squeezed into just 20 minutes of video. ;-)
Keep on!
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reallifelore
Being one who drove the whole USA (Pennsylvania to California and back by car) in less than 2 weeks, I can completely understand the split population of the United States.
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Being one who drove the whole USA (Pennsylvania to California and back by car) in less than 2 weeks, I can completely understand the split population of the United States.
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-27253i
When i flew to kansas, it had so, so much more farm land, and i flew to louisiana amazed still by the fields. Back to baltimore, buildings, small fields, and homes.
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When i flew to kansas, it had so, so much more farm land, and i flew to louisiana amazed still by the fields. Back to baltimore, buildings, small fields, and homes.
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-tiffanybrown1001
There was a global flood thousands of years ago. It was so severe that it impacted the landscape of the earth, our seasons and more that we-re aware of.
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There was a global flood thousands of years ago. It was so severe that it impacted the landscape of the earth, our seasons and more that we-re aware of.
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-Vibingincorndogs
I drove though this, and I did not see that many cities or people like In Wyoming I drove though it all and maybe 20 people were visible
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I drove though this, and I did not see that many cities or people like In Wyoming I drove though it all and maybe 20 people were visible
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-James_Wisniewski
(Most of) the territory west of that line is objectively superior. You can't tell me you enjoy being packed like a sardine in a can.
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(Most of) the territory west of that line is objectively superior. You can't tell me you enjoy being packed like a sardine in a can.
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-curtislowery3477
West Coast vs the east coast monument valley is epic. Ive traveled it all. There is nothing out there. Its a prehestoric ocean
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West Coast vs the east coast monument valley is epic. Ive traveled it all. There is nothing out there. Its a prehestoric ocean
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-briantugbo8947
Dude keeps on overemphasizing words, it's actually annoying to hear. Shame that the presentation of the video is actually good.
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Dude keeps on overemphasizing words, it's actually annoying to hear. Shame that the presentation of the video is actually good.
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-Fesor__pro__95
As a truck driver, always waiting to pass that line, so I can enjoy the ride, everything east of that line is nightmare.
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As a truck driver, always waiting to pass that line, so I can enjoy the ride, everything east of that line is nightmare.
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-davidgarza1301
That line essentially follows I-35 from Mexico to Canada. Well-Watered land east of the corridor and drier land west.
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That line essentially follows I-35 from Mexico to Canada. Well-Watered land east of the corridor and drier land west.
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-kappakumplete
And thanks to the electoral college, we're held hostage by these yokles living in flyover country. It's insanity.
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And thanks to the electoral college, we're held hostage by these yokles living in flyover country. It's insanity.
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-jakedaniel364
Very cool! Would love to hear more about the geography and patterns of precipitation/biodiversity in Canada!
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Very cool! Would love to hear more about the geography and patterns of precipitation/biodiversity in Canada!
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-SnowghostFilms
Even more surprisingly, a massive 71% of the entire surface of the earth is somehow completely uninhabited.
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Even more surprisingly, a massive 71% of the entire surface of the earth is somehow completely uninhabited.
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-DiBaozi
I think I live ON the line. -And a lot of Americans do now that they-re moving from California and NY to Texas.
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I think I live ON the line. -And a lot of Americans do now that they-re moving from California and NY to Texas.
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-mxttero
california. and why do you gotta do the line as close as thee border, and the number isnt suprising
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california. and why do you gotta do the line as close as thee border, and the number isnt suprising
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