Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Geography By Geoff" channel.

  1. The soil in Indiana is not as productive as that in Illinois. Indiana has light brown clay, which difference drove the early growth of the Midwest when agriculture dominated the economy of the region (and agriculture remains important and unequal in the region). Illinois has topsoil with a higher organic content, thus dark brown, highest organic content around Logan County, where the corn and land prices are absurdly tall, and the soil is black, spongy loam. Also, not having Chicago means that the Indiana electorate is not dominated by Cook county and the Chicago Democrat machine, so it can be what the rest of Illinois would naturally be and is, a Republican stronghold. The population transfer he mentions is part of the general migration away from oppressive Democrat states (Illinois, Cali, NY) to Republican states, for good and sufficient reason.
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  2. And Vincennes has two syllables rather than three.
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  3. Absolutely. Learning was always the point of the exercise for me in school.
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  4. Watch it grow now that folk are fleeing blue states.
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