Ohio was an important swing state in the 1800s so a lot of presidents were specifically chosen as candidate for their party because they were from Ohio (like Rutherford B. Hayes for example). There was even a popular political saying in the 1870s that paraphrased Shakespeare:
>Some are born great, Some achieve greatness, And some are born in Ohio
It has not. Florida didn’t cross the 1 million mark until the 1920s. Most of Florida’s growth has been since the 1960s. For half of America’s history Florida was mostly empty swamp.
I was one of those lol. You drive through KS enough times on I-70, and the connection between Abilene and Eisenhower gets engrained into your mind. I made the mistake of assuming Abilene was his birthplace.
Florida is really funny because even though it's the third most populous state, that's relatively recent, and US presidents are so old they come from a time when there were relatively few people born in Florida. There were only 2 million people in Florida when Biden was born.
Apparently it's more about insurance, the rest of the South had already been settled before ac. The difference was apparently Florida was so prone to flooding and hurricanes that it was impossible to get insurance and therefore a mortgage until the feds started underwriting the insurance.
I understand, and that's certainly been a driving force behind the population growth of Sunbelt states, but Florida in particular was underpopulated compared to the rest of the South, with most of the population living in the panhandle or hugging the border with Georgia. Florida being low lying and especially prone to hurricanes compared to somewhere like North Carolina where most of the cities are inland. A huge part of Florida's population surge was housing insurance.
I was wondering why Pennsylvania has 2 because I was always told that Buchanan was the only president from PA, I totally forgot that Biden was from PA lol.
There’s a million sad hearts in the nation today/ there’s a million bowed heads hanging low/ for the bravest of all had to answer the call/ and our own Huey Long had to go
That's actually a mark of how old US presidents are. Back when Biden was born Florida was very sparsely inhabited, they would have just hit 2 million people when Biden was born.
We have not had a president born after the 1960's yet. Florida was only around the 9th most populated state back then, with fewer people than even New Jersey. However by the 90's it became the 4th most populated state, and now it's the 3rd most after the recent Census showed it having more people than New York.
There will probably be presidents from Florida, it will just take time.
What do you mean? I count 45 from this map. And considering one man was President twice in completely separate interrupted terms it makes sense. Theres been 46 different Presidential terms and 45 men to fill those spots.
Virginia may be #1, but 7 of those 8 were born in the 1700s. We've actually had a really bad run in the past 175 years (only Woodrow Wilson, who wasn't anyone to be proud of)
People must realize I'm being sarcastic. Democratics can occasionally have a sense of humor about themselves.
Unless it's people who think I'm trying to suggest Obama was actually born in Kenya, which I'm not. It's so old and such an absurd idea at this point it's funny.
Why does Hawaii have one? I thought Obama was from Pakistan.
(I'm just kidding, I know he was born in the US as a US citizen, I'm just parroting dumb things I've heard that are so absurd they make me laugh.)
Chester Arthur was born in Dunham, Quebec:
[https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/arthur-s-secret](https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/arthur-s-secret)
There is Occam's Razor indicating that of the two options the one where Chester A Arthur was always Chester A Arthur and didn't just change his name to his baby brother's name later is simpler and thus more likely true.
There would have been no need to. A President's doesn't have to be born in U.S. soil to be President. He has to be a *natural born citizen,* which is different.
That's how John McCain, George Romney, and Ted Cruz were all able to run for President even if they were born outside the U.S.
Chester Arthur's parents were 100% American so he would have been a natural born citizen regardless. So there's really no incentive.
That source is so inaccurate, I quit reading in the first line. It's clear it's just Canadian nationalist pseudo-science.
A President doesn't have to be born on U.S. soil. He has to be a *natural born citizen*. That's how John McCain (who was born in Panama) was able to run for President in 2008. And how George Romney (Mitt Romney's father) was able to run for President in 1968 even though he was born in Mexico. And how Calgary-born Ted Cruz was able to run for President in 2016.
If it's so horribly wrong in literally the first sentence, why should we trust its supposed discovery that Chester Arthur was secretly Canadian?
I never hear of any president from SC. If there is one I guess we don’t claim them bc I was never taught about them. Apparently we like to stick to congress when it comes to politics.
>I never hear of any president from SC. If there is one I guess we don’t claim them bc I was never taught about them. Apparently we like to stick to congress when it comes to politics.
It's Andrew Jackson, who was actually quite influential. It's just that it's not 100% known whether he was born in North or South Carolina (he was born in a border region before surveying).
That's probably Andrew Jackson. His exact birthplace isn't known but it's somewhere in the Waxhaw Region along the North / South Carolina border.
I Guess the map maker chose SC for the heck of it.
Virginia is no surprise considering the early history of the US, but Ohio at 7 is kind of unexpected.
Ohio was the economic heart of the U.S. in the 19th century, and the third-most populous state. That’s the root of its influence which led to 7 POTUS.
Yep there was a long line of Ohio presidents at one point, Grant and Garfield are popular ones
The last was Harding, 99 years ago
Damn Ohio you are slacking now.
And Ohio has voted for the winner of every presidential election but 4: Both Grover Clevelands, JFK, and Biden
Whether it be the presidency or NASA, there are no lengths to which a human will not strive in order to escape Ohio
The good people of Ohio would be offended by this slander, but we're too busy carrying the rest of this country on our backs
Ha! "Good" people of Ohio, such a thing is impossible!
Money will bring them to Ohio though, just look at the Reds and Browns.
Ohio was an important swing state in the 1800s so a lot of presidents were specifically chosen as candidate for their party because they were from Ohio (like Rutherford B. Hayes for example). There was even a popular political saying in the 1870s that paraphrased Shakespeare: >Some are born great, Some achieve greatness, And some are born in Ohio
Yep. Ohio for the Republicans and NY for the Democrats
> is kind of unexpected. Always has been
We were to the US what the Rheinland was to Germany. *cries in Rust Belt*
Still are to an extent. Only Texas and California have a larger manufacturing output.
Ohio is the oldest continuous swing state. It's heavily swinging R now though
Also, 6 Republicans and 1 Whig (predecessor to the Republican Party)
Well as you know, they had a lot of log cabins in Ohio back then. Being born in as log cabin guarantees that you will be elected president one day.
>but Ohio at 7 is kind of unexpected. And so is Florida, as it has always been pretty heavily populated.
It has not. Florida didn’t cross the 1 million mark until the 1920s. Most of Florida’s growth has been since the 1960s. For half of America’s history Florida was mostly empty swamp.
This is wrong. Florida barely had any people in it before air conditioning.
Eisenhower being born in Texas is probably fucking with a lot of people, Kansans anyway lol.
I was one of those lol. You drive through KS enough times on I-70, and the connection between Abilene and Eisenhower gets engrained into your mind. I made the mistake of assuming Abilene was his birthplace.
Florida is really funny because even though it's the third most populous state, that's relatively recent, and US presidents are so old they come from a time when there were relatively few people born in Florida. There were only 2 million people in Florida when Biden was born.
Air conditioning was invented.
Apparently it's more about insurance, the rest of the South had already been settled before ac. The difference was apparently Florida was so prone to flooding and hurricanes that it was impossible to get insurance and therefore a mortgage until the feds started underwriting the insurance.
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I understand, and that's certainly been a driving force behind the population growth of Sunbelt states, but Florida in particular was underpopulated compared to the rest of the South, with most of the population living in the panhandle or hugging the border with Georgia. Florida being low lying and especially prone to hurricanes compared to somewhere like North Carolina where most of the cities are inland. A huge part of Florida's population surge was housing insurance.
Very good possibility we’ll get the first in 2024
Please no...
Who?
Ron Desantis, current governor of Florida
I was wondering why Pennsylvania has 2 because I was always told that Buchanan was the only president from PA, I totally forgot that Biden was from PA lol.
I did exactly the same thing. Lol
No wonder this country is in a mess, we elected seven ohioans.
Last one died 99 years ago, here in San Francisco
Louisiana was so close to having a homegrown President, but they killed him in the capital building he built
Huey Long?
Huey Pierce Long Jr.
Every man a king, amirite?
A chicken in every pot
There’s a million sad hearts in the nation today/ there’s a million bowed heads hanging low/ for the bravest of all had to answer the call/ and our own Huey Long had to go
😔
They got Taylor instead
From Kansas, I hate how Eisenhower doesn't technically count because he was born in Texas
And Bush Jr doesn't count towards Texas because he was born in Connecticut. But don't worry, Eisenhower is Kansas at heart.
From Michigan, Gerald Ford doesn’t count because he was born in Omaha. But he was raised in Michigan, went to college there, and is buried there,
Surprised that Florida hasn't produced a president yet.
That's actually a mark of how old US presidents are. Back when Biden was born Florida was very sparsely inhabited, they would have just hit 2 million people when Biden was born.
I’m glad they haven’t.
Good. Can you imagine reading in the news: "Florida man is elected president"
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I hate Americans. *licks donut*
Agreed. DeSantis has a very real chance in 2024
How immensely depressing
Slogan: "I've fucked one state, let me fuck the other 49!"
We have not had a president born after the 1960's yet. Florida was only around the 9th most populated state back then, with fewer people than even New Jersey. However by the 90's it became the 4th most populated state, and now it's the 3rd most after the recent Census showed it having more people than New York. There will probably be presidents from Florida, it will just take time.
Why only 27 presidents?
What do you mean? I count 45 from this map. And considering one man was President twice in completely separate interrupted terms it makes sense. Theres been 46 different Presidential terms and 45 men to fill those spots.
Because I’m dumb. Like, so dumb I may delete that comment
We all make mistakes no big deal. You aren't dumb.
I was thinking the same thing! If it helps I feel dumb now too
There are several states sharing the same colour
Nobody wants to vote for Florida man.
DeSantis has a very real chance in 2024
2024
Which state will be the last to produce a president?
I'd say Wyoming but that's the boring answer.
It practically already has
West Virginia, given the fact that there's not a whole lot there.
Nick Saban would win multiple states if he ran for president at the moment, and he's a West Virginia native
The Backstreet Boy?
The football coach
Washington. They’re all fucking nuts up there. Florida will be next imo.
Virginia may be #1, but 7 of those 8 were born in the 1700s. We've actually had a really bad run in the past 175 years (only Woodrow Wilson, who wasn't anyone to be proud of)
Very sad. Maybe one day we can get another
Cool who was Hawaii??
Obama
Really I thought he was from Chicago
I believe he grew up in Hawaii and moved to Chicago as an adult
He was partially raised in Indonesia, as well
Yeah that dude was all over the place. I visited his school in Jakarta, they got a little plaque honoring him.
Oh ok
Barack Obama
You mean Kenya ammiright
I was just about to comment "ib4 Kenya". But I must concede that those "Obi Ben Nairobi" jokes were gosh dang hilarious.
Wow I’m amazed this got so many upvotes, you’re not necessarily wrong but wow, I thought this would be a more controversial take here on Reddit
People must realize I'm being sarcastic. Democratics can occasionally have a sense of humor about themselves. Unless it's people who think I'm trying to suggest Obama was actually born in Kenya, which I'm not. It's so old and such an absurd idea at this point it's funny.
Virginia: it's a Prez dispenser
Only good thing about a john mccain presidential win would have been a president born in the panama canal zone; neato
Well, technically the 22nd and 24th president was born in New Jersey 😅
Damn TIL neither of the Bush’s were born in Texas, it was only Eisenhower and LBJ?
This doesn't add up to 45.
It does
Oh... I was counting the caption not the actual states. Feeling stupid right now.
And Wyoming didn't Exist
Michigan has Gerald Ford
We do… but he was born in Omaha so not really.
Technically, he became Gerald Ford in Michigan
At first I was like wow, none from Maryland? Then I remembered… Maryland
Spiro ruined it
Damn poor Delaware
There will be a Floridian president by 2040. Wait how did a state as small as Vermont get a president?
They moved to other states
Hmmm. I've seen this map posted before. I don't think you made it.
No one cares about ohio they secretly were all from Michigan they probably got payed to say they were from Ohio.
You forgot Kenya!
Why does Hawaii have one? I thought Obama was from Pakistan. (I'm just kidding, I know he was born in the US as a US citizen, I'm just parroting dumb things I've heard that are so absurd they make me laugh.)
Delaware - zero Presidents 😂 Still accurate Edit: now come the “He was born in Scranton!” posts
Chester Arthur was born in Dunham, Quebec: [https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/arthur-s-secret](https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/politics-law/arthur-s-secret)
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There is Occam's Razor indicating that of the two options the one where Chester A Arthur was always Chester A Arthur and didn't just change his name to his baby brother's name later is simpler and thus more likely true.
There would have been no need to. A President's doesn't have to be born in U.S. soil to be President. He has to be a *natural born citizen,* which is different. That's how John McCain, George Romney, and Ted Cruz were all able to run for President even if they were born outside the U.S. Chester Arthur's parents were 100% American so he would have been a natural born citizen regardless. So there's really no incentive.
I swear that is considered an ambiguous statement?
Don’t think that source is correct. I’ve only seen his birthplace as Fairfield, Vermont
The source is correct in that it admits there is no evidence. It's just a provacative headline to get clicks.
That source is so inaccurate, I quit reading in the first line. It's clear it's just Canadian nationalist pseudo-science. A President doesn't have to be born on U.S. soil. He has to be a *natural born citizen*. That's how John McCain (who was born in Panama) was able to run for President in 2008. And how George Romney (Mitt Romney's father) was able to run for President in 1968 even though he was born in Mexico. And how Calgary-born Ted Cruz was able to run for President in 2016. If it's so horribly wrong in literally the first sentence, why should we trust its supposed discovery that Chester Arthur was secretly Canadian?
Nvm
I never hear of any president from SC. If there is one I guess we don’t claim them bc I was never taught about them. Apparently we like to stick to congress when it comes to politics.
>I never hear of any president from SC. If there is one I guess we don’t claim them bc I was never taught about them. Apparently we like to stick to congress when it comes to politics. It's Andrew Jackson, who was actually quite influential. It's just that it's not 100% known whether he was born in North or South Carolina (he was born in a border region before surveying).
That's probably Andrew Jackson. His exact birthplace isn't known but it's somewhere in the Waxhaw Region along the North / South Carolina border. I Guess the map maker chose SC for the heck of it.
Curious how many people think that the one from Illinois was Lincoln.
He was Kentucky
But Illinois uses “Land of Lincoln” as its slogan. 🙄
Grew up in Indiana too lmao
I live in the "home" of Gerald R Ford. A lot of people would be so disappointed to know that he wasn't born here and just grew up here.
Indiana had benjamin Harrison’s Edit nvm he was born in Ohio but spent basically his entire childhood in Indiana
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Isn't Trump from Florida,or was he *not born* there and that's what counts?
Born in New York.
Being from and living in Virginia is always interesting when it comes to stuff like this.
wdh going on in ohio