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📺 Why The US Southeast Coast is Absurdly Empty [RealLifeLore] (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/history@mander.xyz
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Tl;dr:

  • Several geographic effects of the erosion of the Appalachian range over hundreds of millions of years, like the Fall Zone, being the dividing line between the hilly, higher altitude Piedmont interior and the flat, sandy, swampy, and nutrient poor exterior.
  • Hurricanes
  • Malaria
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago

I’ve driven the entirety of i95, and Richmond was the very last of the northern metropolis. After Richmond, there was nothing until we hit Jacksonville, and continued into central Florida.

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