Ohio and Pennsylvania Compared

Ohio and Pennsylvania The Buckeye State and The Keystone State Two neighboring Midwestern states  in these United States. Ok, well,   western Pennsylvania feels Midwestern, but eastern  Pennsylvania definitely feels Mid-Atlantic. Heck,   you could even classify parts of Pennsylvania  as part of the Northeast region of the country.   It’s a crossroads state, really. Um, but  yeah, this video is about Pennsylvania   AND OHIO and you know what? BOTH are  crossroads states, with easy access to   sooo many great places. Both states  sure do have a lot in common, for real. First of all, both are part of the Rust Belt,  a region of the country known for declining   industry and run down factories. Even decades  after most of these factories have shut down,   several cities in both states  continue to lose population each year. Both are probably about to lose one  electoral vote in the Electoral College,   because the population of both  hasn’t grown much in recent years. Hey speaking of the Electoral  College (ugh, Electoral College),   if a presidential candidate wins either Ohio or  Pennsylvania, odds are they are winning the entire   election. Ohio and Pennsylvania pick winners,  baby! Pennsylvania picked the winner for all   but two presidential elections between 1789  and 1880. Both Ohio and Pennsylvania tend to   be swing states in recent years, although Ohio  seems to be more reliably Republican lately.   Both have one Republican U.S. Senator  and one Democratic U.S. Senator. Now,   the governor of Ohio is a Republican  and the governor of Pennsylvania is a   Democrat. But the state legislatures in both  states currently have Republican majorities. Ok, enough about politics! Let’s  talk about the Amish. Seriously.  Both states have a larger Amish population  than any other state in the country. Both are two of the most populated  states in the country. Both have a   very similar population density. (O- 282.3  per square mile, P- 286.2 per square mile) Pennsylvania does have more people. (O- 11.7  million, P- 12.8 million) It’s the fifth largest   state by population, and Ohio is the seventh  largest by population. Combined, both have   10 metro areas that are ranked in the top 100  of most populated metros in the country. While   Pennsylavnia has the two biggest metros overall-  Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Ohio has the trio   of Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Columbus- all of  which are almost as big as the Pittsburgh metro. Both have similar climates. In general,  humid continental in the north, and humid   subtropical in the south. Northern Ohio and the  Northwestern corner of Pennsylvania has a climate   influenced by Lake Erie, however, and southwestern  Pennsylvania’s climate can be influenced by the   nearby Atlantic Ocean. Pennsylvania is not a  coastal state, though. Both get four seasons and,   with the exceptions of the mountainous areas,  both are generally warmer in the summer   the further south you go and colder in  the winter the further north you go. The Appalachian Plateau, a rugged  region made up of dissected plateaus,   runs right through both states. Both have  the same type of natural disasters. Ya know,   the occasional severe thunderstorm, floods,  and blizzards. Both also can get tornadoes. The biggest industries in both are  the same! That’d be healthcare,   manufacturing, retail, and education.  Agriculture is also big in both. The median age is similar  in both. (O- 39.5, P- 40.8) Both have a similar number  of residents who identify   as Christian (73%) and “not religious” (O-22%,  P-21%). However, more consider themselves Roman   Catholic in Pennsylvania and more consider  themselves Evangelical Protestant in Ohio. Before we get into the differences  between the two states, I need to shave.  Which works out pretty well  since this video is sponsored by   Harry’s is a personal care brand   that has reinvented the way you shave, helping  you to shave in a premium, hassle-free way. We've got this shave gel that is phenomenal. It has aloe. I'm typically not a fan of shaving. I'm not just saying this since they sponsored this video. Actually, it's a nice shave. Alright, got the shaving gel on my face. Now I'm going to shave the little hairs off my face. I might even shave some nose hairs. Their German manufactured blades are  sharper than ever (don't try that at home)- and they’re still the  same low price of only $2 each! Look at that! It gets ALL the hair. And it just makes shaving a more enjoyable experience. Nice! Really nice! See I can even get the nose hairs. 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Many of the first   Europeans to settle the area were fur traders, who  regularly traded with the aforementioned tribes.   The French were mostly the ones who traded  in the area, but the Dutch, English, and   Swedes also traded in parts of modern-day eastern  Pennsylvania. Throughout the 1600s, this happened   mostly peacefully, but there were the Beaver  Wars, which saw the Iroquois teaming up with the   English and Dutch and on the other side a bunch  of Indian nations teaming up with the French. In 1655, the Dutch took over  future southeastern Pennsylvania,   but within a couple decades the  English had full control of it. Meanwhile, modern-day western Pennsylvania  and Ohio were claimed by France as part of   New France. On March 4, 1681, Charles  II of England granted a dude named   William Penn the Province of Pennsylvania  to settle debt that he owed to William’s   father. Hey Charles even named it after his  dad, dang. “sylvania,” by the way, is Latin   for “woodlands.” William, who by the way was a  bit embarrassed by the name of his new colony,   founded it as a place of religious freedom that  mostly attracted Quakers, Germans, Scots-Irish   frontiersmen, and others fleeing religious  persecution and wars. Penn today is also known   for his fair treatment of American Indian tribes  who lived in the colony. He founded Pennsylvania's   capital, Philadelphia, in 1682. Philadelphia would  quickly become a major port and commercial city. Throughout the 1700s, more and more  colonists would move further west,   encroaching on both American Indian claims  and French claims. The British called the   area west of Pennsylvania “Ohio Country.” The  name “Ohio” comes from the Seneca word “ohi:   yo’” when translates to “great river.”  What “great river” were they referring to?   The Ohio River of course! Anyway, a bunch of  folks from Virginia created the Ohio Company to   settle Ohio Country and trade with American  Indian tribes there. The problem was, France   was already there yo. However, the British won  what became known as the French and Indian War,   and then all of Pennsylvania and Ohio  Country were now part of Great Britain. During the years between the French and Indian  War and the American War of Independence,   Pennsylvania’s borders changed a few times.  Famously, Jeremiah Mason and Charles DIxon   drew up the Mason-Dixon line, which officially  became the Southern border and, over time,   an informal boundary between free states in  the North and slave states in the South. Ohio   Country never had many slaves, but it  did have a lot of violence and turmoil   in the years between the French and Indian War and  the American War of Independence. But DURING the   American War of Independence, Pennsylvania saw  much more violence and turmoil. Pennsylvania,   well Philadelphia specifically, was where  the new country of the United States began-   where the First and Second Continental Congresses  met and where the Declaration of Independence was   signed. In addition to Philadelphia, Lancaster  and York even temporarily served as capitals   during the war. After independence was  secured, the Congress of the Confederation   continued to meet in Philadelphia and it  remained the country's capital for a few years. That Congress of the Confederation  created the Northwest Territory in 1787,   and a dude named Rufus Putnam led a group  of Revolutionary veterans to settle in   Ohio the next year. Marietta, Ohio became the  first European-American permanent U.S. settlement   in Northwest Territory. Many American  Indian tribes still lived out there,   and treaties were broken as they were pushed  further and further west due to American   encroachment on their lands. During the Northwest  Indian War of 1785-1795, a confederation of tribes   united to fight the Americans and their  American Indian allies. That confederation   of tribes lost and had to give up lots of  territory, including most of modern-day Ohio. As I hinted at earlier, Pennsylvania was  one of the first states in the Union,   but that didn’t mean it didn’t also have some  chaos during those years. In the early 1790s,   a bunch of farmers in Western Pennsylvania  organized to not pay the federal tax on   certain alcoholic beverages, even when  federal authorities showed up in person   trying to collect them. This became known as  the Whiskey Rebellion, and it only ended when   freaking President George Washington himself  and 15,000 soldiers showed up to put it down. By the end of 1801, Ohio’s population had  swelled to 45,000, and it prepared for a   path to statehood. When it did become a state 14  months later, it rejected slavery, and for many   decades afterward runaway slaves would cross the  Ohio River into Ohio as they escaped the South. 45,000 people? That’s cute. Around that time  Pennsylavnia had around 650,000 people and was the   second-largest state in the Union by population,  really having a strong influence on the rest of   the country. Over the following decades, only  New York would dominate more. In fact, only New   York had more electoral votes than Pennsylvania  between the years of 1824 all the way up to 1960. From 1811 to 1813, Ohio found itself impacted by  Tecumseh’s War, between Shawnee leader Tecumseh   and his Confederacy and the United States. It  overlapped with the War of 1812 with the British.   After it was over, pretty much every American  Indian tribe had lost control of the Great Lakes   region, and things calmed down in both states over  the next several decades. Until the American Civil   War, that is. At that time, both Pennsylvania and  Ohio were the second and third largest states in   the country by population. Both stayed with the  Union, of course, and played critical roles in   the war, and critical Union leaders came from both  states. While Ohio didn’t see much action during   that war, Pennsylvania was where the biggest,  bloodiest, and most famous battle took place-   the Battle of Gettysburg, which we now see  as a major turning point of the Civil War. For the rest of the 1800s, industrialization  dramatically changed both states, and both   became economic powerhouses that most of  the rest of the country came to depend on.   Between the Civil War and the end of the 1800s,  the population of both states doubled, and that   rapid growth continued for the first half of the  1900s. Since the 1960s, the growth has cooled   off as many factories in both states have shut  down. Hence, the aforementioned term Rust Belt. However, the economies of both  today have diversified quite a   bit and have attracted a lot  of business opportunities due   to a lower cost of living compared to  other places in the country. Although,   according to Forbes magazine, Pennsylvania  is currently a better state for business. Although it obviously varies from city to city,   overall Ohio has a lower cost of living than  Pennsylvania. Ohioans do pay more in taxes,   overall. That said, Pennsylvania has  the highest gas tax in the country. Ok, let’s see...what other differences? Well this surprised me a bit. Pennsylvania  is bigger, but just by about 9%. Ohio’s population is a little bit more spread  out. Pennsylvania’s is more in the eastern and   western parts. I’m sure the mountains have a  lot to do with it. Pennsylvania definitely has   more mountains than Ohio. The Appalachians run  right through it. Driving across the state on   Interstate 80 is one of the most scenic stretches  of interstate in the country. Most of the state is   rugged in one way or the other, whereas parts  of Ohio are fairly flat, relatively speaking. While both get plenty of precipitation,  Pennsylvania gets a bit more, overall. Pennsylvania has more residents  who were born in a foreign country. Pennsylvania has a higher median household  income. (O- $56,111, P- $60,905) It also   has a lower poverty rate (O- 13.1%, P-  12%) or at least it did back in 2019.   However, Ohio has a lower violent crime rate. More Pennsylvanians have college  degrees (O-35.1%, P-37.4%). Although,   Ohio spends more per student on education.  More Pennsylvanians are members of a union. Ohio borders five states. Pennsylvania borders  six. The southern border of Ohio is the mighty   Ohio River and the northern border of both states  is the aforementioned Lake Erie. Pennsylvania,   just barely, though. This 300-square mile  northwestern section of the state is known as the   Erie Triangle. It originally was disputed land.  New York, and even Connecticut and Massachusetts,   all made claims on it, but ultimately the  federal government took over the area and   sold it to Pennsylavnia so that the state would  have access to a freshwater port on Lake Erie. But yeah, anyway, the Delaware River makes  up the eastern border of Pennsylvania. Ohio has one more national park than  Pennsylvania. Uh, yeah...Pennsylvania   doesn’t have a national park. But it has  more historical landmarks! (O-76, P-169) Eight American Presidents were born  and/or spent most of their life in Ohio. You know who is also from Ohio?   Geography Joe. That’s right, one of  my new favorite channels on YouTube.   Hey this video is actually a collaboration  with Joe, who has just released a video   about the history of East Cleveland over on his  channel. Check it out after this one and stuff? Now, Ohioans might disagree with this,  but Ohio has better roads overall. And let’s face it. Ohio also has a cooler,   much more unique flag. It’s the only American flag  that’s not rectangular. I’m sorry Pennsylvania. Ohio has the world’s largest cuckoo clock,   drumsticks, and basket. Although that basket is  just a building. But there’s also this basket.   But Pennsylvania has some really big, um, Big  Macs in its Big Mac Museum in North Huntingdon. In several Pennsylvania towns, they celebrate  Halloween earlier than October 31st. Pennsylvania has Old Forge Pizza.  Ohio has Steubenville style pizza. Convenience stores in Pennsylvania actually  have good food. There is a bit of a civil   war between phenomenal convenience  stores in Pennsylvania. In the west,   Sheetz dominates. In the east, Wawa  dominates. Ohio has some Sheetz stores,   but not Wawa stores. But it does have  Casey’s so I guess that makes up for it. A lot of the differences between the two states  are because of Eastern Pennsylvania existing.   Eastern Pennsylvania actually has much more in  common with the East Coast states. I mean, Philly   has more in common with New York and Washington  D.C. than the three major Ohio cities, and even   Pittsburgh. Central and Western Pennsylvania  definitely are much more similar to Ohio. I’ll conclude by showing you this map. As you  can kind of see, both are not that far from   the exciting East Coast, yet have quite a bit  lower cost of living. Not just the East Coast.   Former Ohio governor John Kasich once  said “We’re within 600 miles of 60%   of America,” and he was right. Both are so close  to everything, yet both have a reasonable cost   of living. Better come take advantage of these  prices before the area heats up again, baby. A reminder that this is a  collaboration with Geography Joe,   who runs a terrific channel, be sure to subscribe  to it. Joe is from Cleveland, and just released   a video about East Cleveland. I’ve linked it  below. Check it out. So which states should I   compare next? Let me know in those comments. And  finally, here’s my monthly shout out to my Patreon   supporters who donate at least $10 or more a month  to my channel. Starting with my biggest donors,   Matt Standish, Elcaspar, Sean Conant, Austin  Siros, Nik Everett, Alicia Solberg, Andrew B.,   Cody Moore, Dr. Paul J. Lilly, Kristin Hylland,  John Johnson, Andrew Schneider, CJKavy,   Kit Walker, Zachary F. Parker, Bradley Pool,  Victor Martinez, Justin Emerson Richards,   Southside Mitch, Leigh Fortier, Thomas Oppenheim,  Kyler James Reinhardt, Grant Hughes, Ilan Capone,   Robert Reischl, Adam Christians, Raquell  Jones, Cal Stephens, TheGeoScholar,   and Sally Thompson. Thank you all for  donating, and thank YOU for watching.

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Length: 18min 44sec (1124 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 19 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/SlowTalkinMorris]

Pennsylvania is deceptively wide. I'm from Cleveland and I was driving through to New York, I stopped at a rest stop thinking, I must be getting close to Jersey by now. Turns out I was smack in the middle of Pennsylvania. Very demoralizing.

[u/THE_RED_DOLPHIN]

I live in PA and don't really consider it Midwest at all. It's totally NE, although of course the state is wide and has many facets.

[u/-ibgd]

I’m not from here but I live here (PA). How is PA Midwestern? It shouldn’t be mid anything. And how is it not part of the north east?

[u/Dense-Weird4585]

Oh damn this is Mr.Beat. Your videos are always great and your definitely one of my personal favorite you tubers, nice to see you on here.

[u/carsonwentz_god]

Oh shit it’s Mr.Beat, hell yeah love your vids.

I will say that PA is very culturally different as you move across the state, whereas Ohio is just... Ohio

[u/IggyJR]

Ohio might be mid-western, but Pennsylvania is Philly, Pittsburgh and a lot of confederate flag waving dick-holes in between.

[u/kennyken_ken]

well that was nice

[u/-ibgd]

I had to look up all of this midwestern thing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States

So PA is not midwestern, but Ohio is. Midwest region used to be called North Central Region, which makes way way more sense.

For a state to be in the midwest wouldn't that mean that's halfway between the west and the half/center of the country?

[u/NastyBass28]

I watched the entire video. It was very well put together. I can definitely see why you said it’s a midwestern transition state. I agree. Other than topography, Pittsburgh has more in common with the cities in Ohio.