The "Belt" Regions Of The United States
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▶ In this video I talk about the territorial 'Belt' regions of the United States of America. When looking at a map of the US, you can divide it in various ways, including regions, states, counties, and urban vs rural areas. However, another interesting way is through "belts," which are regions sharing specific characteristics. Some well-known belts are the Rust Belt, known for its heavy industrialization and economic stagnation, and the Bible Belt, noted for its strong evangelical Protestant influence. These belts aren't formal divisions but rather labels for areas with shared traits. The term "belt" originally referred to agricultural regions following lines of latitude with similar climates, like the Corn Belt and Wheat Belt. Over time, the concept expanded to include economic, cultural, and climatic characteristics, leading to belts such as the Frost Belt and the Sun Belt. Each belt has its unique history and significance, reflecting the diverse nature of the United States.
▶ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 American Belts
00:44 What Is A "Belt"?
01:17 How Many Belts Are There? And Which Ones?
02:07 The Bible Belt
03:19 The "Unchurched" Belt
04:10 The "Jell-O" (Mormon) Belt
06:28 The Rust Belt
07:26 The Sun Belt
07:48 The Black Belt
08:51 The Cotton Belt
08:57 The Corn Belt
09:30 The Wheat Belt
09:37 The Rice Belt
09:46 The Frost Belt
09:57 The Snow Belt
10:32 Summary
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*Do you know any additional "Belts" in the US, or in other countries?*
In Europe its "bananas" 😅. m.ua-cam.com/video/3ZioReYfirY/v-deo.html
Alligator Belt. It’s only in Florida and south Alabama.
Tight belt - aka all Americans
Timber belt - places in Washington, Oregon, & Idaho where logging is common.
The Belt
I personally don't think going through every single one of the belts would be boring at all, considering there are only 20 or so that you named. In fact, that's exactly what my expectation was when I clicked on the video... Specifically the Pretzel Belt (being the one I was born and raised in).
Okay! I'll make a part two with the ones I left out :)
Especially Pretzel Belt picked my Interest. As well as the Borschscht Belt.
I've never heard of a pretzel belt. Where is that!
Where is the pretzel belt? Is it as amazing as it sounds? Asking for a friend who likes pretzels too much.
@@mrmadmaxalotit kinda sounds like a synonym for the german belt, a "belt" around the great lakes region that has a higher amount of german people
I live right in between the rust belt and the corn belt. Our two main attractions are exploring abandoned buildings and staring at corn
Exploring abandoned buildings sounds like fun, actually.
Bible Belt being the name of where Evangelical Protestant population is very high: Yeah, that makes sense.
Unchurched Belt being the name of where Christian population is relatively low: Yeah, I could see that.
Jello Belt being the name of where Latter Day Saints population is high:
What the *****.*
What can I say, we like jello
If you knew more Mormons it would make perfect sense, trust me
Mormons spent a lot of the mid 20th century trying to become “more normal” in the eyes of the average American, so they latched onto the mid 20th century vision of normal. Jell-o was crazy crazy popular with housewives in the 1950s, the “normal” people, and as such jello’s been kind of a staple of Mormon church dinners and family events ever since. At least, that’s the read I always got as an outsider with a Mormon family for in-laws
We don't eat jello THAT much, but my family always had a box of the stuff on hand, I mean, it tastes good
@@The_Forgettable1 I haven't had it in decades, you are proof of the Jello Belt 🙂
I've lived in Colorado for 41 years and I've never heard of the jello-belt
What? Have you been living under a rock?
Nah, jk. I've never heard it either.
I've heard the expression "Mormon Corridor" used more often to describe the area between southern Idaho and northern Arizona, centering on Utah, that contains the majority of the USA's Mormon population
Well, it barely even goes through Colorado so that’s not that surprising
How have you never heard of The jello belt
Yeah this is full of made up terms. I was born and raised in Seattle and it's never ever been referred to as the "atheist" anything! 😂 The city is saturated with Scandinavians who brought along with them their rather humble Lutheran Churches.😅 Over 50% of the people here in Seattle actively identify as Christian.
Cant belive you didnt cover the borscht and pretzel belt
Let me guess? The borscht belt has a high number of Russians, or Russians and other Slavic minorities combined?
The pretzel belt has a high number of Germans, or Jews?
Wherever there is a prohibition against drinking alcohol, there you will see a huge use of Jell-O, "soft drinks", and biscuit/cookie use. Gotta get that sugar hit somehow!
@@mudgetheexpendable Bill Cosby knows
Prohibition is useless.
Please do part 2 where you cover the belts you didn’t cover here. I demand it
My dream would be a website that has all sort of stats like this where I can overlay all the info about where I live
The Black Belt has geology at its heart, PBS Terra video taught me recently. Turns out that "the Cretaceous coastline into the fertile “Black Belt” region of the American South."
Is it? or is that just a coincidence?
@@mapache-ehcapam Come to the coastal plains region of North Carolina and find out.
I was thinking that too! And no its not a coincidence
And thats also the area where the most blacks live in the u.s
@ManicMercurianAstrology that's how it became the black (people) belt too. The black fertile soil was great for agriculture, which led to bringing in black people to work the black dirt.
🌪"TORNADO BELT" was not mentioned🌪
It's more commonly called "Tornado Alley", but yeah, I'd consider it very much one of the US belts despite the name.
get over it
I’ve always heard it called tornado alley
@@crosswordboss yep. It’s tornado alley
Tornado Belt or Tornado Alley deserve it “RESPECT.”
America: i'm wearing all the belts!!
We are the Joey of countries 😊
reminds me of Obama putting an award around Obama’s neck
We wear all the belts…yet we still can’t keep our pants up…. America 2024 in a nutshell 😆
Lol my mum grew up in the wheat belt in Australia
America looking like a final fantasy character
The lack of inclusion of the borscht belt was devastating.
I've lived in the US my whole live and the only belt I've heard of was the bible belt. I definitely learned some general knowledge today
You never heard "Rust Belt" to describe Midwest?
As someone else mentioned, I’m shocked you never heard of the rust belt, I feel that’s the most prevalent one I hear of. I may be biased since I’m from MI, but I’ve heard plenty of non midwesterners mention or talk about
Me personally, I’ve only regularly heard of the Rust Belt, Bible Belt and the Sun Belt
@@diegogalvan1810 I've never stayed in the midwest for longer than a day. Only lived on the east and west coasts.
Rust belt kinda forecasts GDP, or how well business and industry is going to do nation wide.
Growing up in eastern Idaho, we usually used the term "Mormon Corridor" or "I-15 Corridor."
1:33 I find the placement of the FRUIT belt offensive and triggering...
@@TheAlchaemist Definitely fruity
I believe this needs to be a series since there’s belts I’ve never heard of
Im in Ulster County & Im bummed our little two county Borscht Belt wasn't detailed.
The reason why they purchase so much jello in Utah is because people hide alcohol in jello in regions where drinking is taboo. Jello is actually enjoyed in the area so there is a learned cultural component however it cant be ignored that jello lends itself to concealing alcohol and alcohol consumption is frowned upon at a higher rate in these areas, Had a Mormon friend confirm this
I’m a Mormon, and I’ve lived in Utah my whole life, and I can tell you I have no idea what you’re talking about.
@@kk7dinhamradioI’m not Mormon, have lived on the Idaho/Utah border my whole life, and I know exactly what they’re talking about. Jell-O shots are definitely a big thing here. That being said, culturally, we also just like Jell-o. It’s nostalgic, reminds me of my grandmas Sunday dinner.
the fallout jello is just because it's also stereotyped as 1950s
Ah okay! Thanks for the clarification
Definitely! I mean the in 50s to 60s people were even making vegetable & seafood jello molds with unflavored gelatin. *shudder*
Duluth being outside of the rust belt is insane
It's a shipping town, never had much manufacturing to speak of.
@@Quantum-yz9fc The rust only makes its way there through the aquifers, so technically it doesn’t count
Am Mormon/LDS. The Term "Mormon Belt' makes far more sense than "Jell-O Belt".
Jell-O is actually not as popular as the name Belt implies. (Twice the average quantity of jell-o purchased in a single year is still an overall low quantity, since jell-o is not that frequently eaten to begin with).
Chocolate Pudding (or for the Brits, Custard) is a more frequently eaten desert in my family clan, for example.
Funeral Potatoes/Cheesy Potatoes/Hash-Brown Casseroles are far more popular and common as an ethnic food to the Mormon Belt than Jell-O (part of our territory covering Idaho potato country certainly explains part of that).
I spent half a year working in Salt Lake, and the Church tried hard to convert me. It was normal for unmarried young woman to bring me home to their family for dinner. There was always Jello. Was that simply because I was a visitor?
Yeah Funeral Potato belt would've made way more sense 😂
Every source I've ever read has said the geological sense of "Black Belt" came first, the ethnic sense following. There is a long, narrow stretch of rich, dark soil running from the Carolinas to the Mississippi delta and valley. Much of Georgia outside of this is famous for red soil. Some folks even eat it.
Eat the soil?
@@jimc.goodfellas226 Yes. It's called geophagy. There are UA-cam videos about it. Not just any soil, though. It has to be good.
I simply typed us black belt into Google search and most of the sources and maps are directly link to black people
So it seems like you're not digging hard enough
I appreciate you omitting northern VA from the bible belt. NoVA is very different from the rest of VA.
Also, a major cause for the rust belt was NAFTA and the trend to ship manufacturing and mining jobs overseas.
I'd include the state outlines in your graphics since some of those are hard to place if you're not into US geography.
Lake Huron: Am I nothing to you?
You forgot the Money Belt along 95 from DC/Richmond to Boston/Portland ME
Cincinnati in three: Bible, Rust (which I disagree with) and Corn. What a place.
If I were to make an assumption about jello cakes in fallout it’s bc it’s based off an era where food dishes tried to be frugal when possible. Take a whole bunch of nothing to make something. Basically you “jello” anything and it’s simple, quick, cheap, and feeds more than 1-2 ppl. This is highly efficient for post apocalyptic scenarios or even for prepping for those scenarios in effort to ration more important food groups.
I think that they should have included Michigan's Upper Peninsula and upper Minnesota in the "Steel Belt." These are important places for the manufacturing of steel because they pull a lot of iron ore from the ground, there. I also lived in Michigan's Upper Peninsula for almost 2.5 years. It was great because I loved to cross country ski in the winter and the natural beauty year round was breath taking in a lot of places. I was a ten minute walk from Lake Superior. One blizzard, when I was up there, lasted for just short of three days. When it was over, it left us with 55 inches (139.7 cm) of new snow.
Nice video, it's been a while since I saw your video
Welcome back!
Maybe you should do an archipelago map of areas with similar industries. For example, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Nashville, New York City, and Miami are a show business belt
Damn I really wanted to know about the "Borscht Belt"
The Borscht Belt is a series of vacation resorts situated throughout the Catskill Mountains, Shawgunks & Mid-Hudson regions of NY, where many entertainers started their careers, usually referring to comedians, & more specifically Jewish comedians from which the belt takes its name. Examples Buddy Hackett, Mel Brooks, &Danny Kaye to name a few. The area is primarily located in Sullivan County & Ulster County NY but sometimes includes parts of the surrounding area, most notably Greene County NY . The Borscht Belt started to decline in the 60s replacing comedy with counter culture & music. Today the Borscht Belt is mostly gone.
Me too
Proud sun belt resident here! Thanks for the video
You covered the belts I'm familiar with, then named but didn't explain a bunch I've never heard of!! Where's the other belt video? 😂
The southern region of Nepal , that borders India is called as Terai Belt ....meaning fertile plain lands with rich alluvial soil for cultivation .....
Hence , the Terai Belt is known as the "Bread Basket of Nepal " also referred as the Green Belt ....
Great video as always ....😊
Love❤ from Nepal 🇳🇵
I hear my state included in the bible belt even though you didn't include it. Its a very reliously charged place. Also part of tornado alley
How ya gonna mention the Banana Belt and the Pretzel Belt but then just talk about the ones Everybody already knows about? Sequel time
The black belt and sun belt should cover all of eastern North Carolina.
The Black Belt also included Maryland
@@jbenjamin59 Mare-Land. Ball-MOE
we hear about the wind belt a lot here which is also the tornado belt depending on whether you want to talk about wind energy or tornadoes also why isn't the jello belt called the Mormon belt
I have been referring to the Bible Belt as the "Bubba Belt" ever since I lived there for 20 years.
All I gotta say is there's a CRUICIAL part of the rust belt missing, that being salt. Both on the roads due to oversalting in the winter and the oceans nearer to the coast, salt is a HUGE killer of cars in this area, especially the road stuff because it just gets kicked up into the undercarriage.
it’s very similar to the frost belt he mentioned.
Rust Belt has nothing to do with rusty cars. It's all about manufacturing.
@@tomfields3682 Unless the cars are rusty the moment you drive them off the lot, manufacturing has nothing to do with it. You might say design as to the materials used, but not manufacturing. That being said, the rust belt's winters, humidity, and use of salt very much are driving factors to the state of cars in the region. Go to the desert in Arizona and cars take considerably longer to rust if they rust at all.
As for salt, a lot of salt comes from that region and not just the mountains. Most people don't know that Detroit has active mines underneath the city
@@TracyII77 You missed my point. The Rust Belt is called that because the cities and towns in that area were centers of *manufacturing* until the 1980s when it all went overseas or down South, leaving all the abandoned factories, mills and railroad tracks to rust.
Yes, they used lots of salt on the roads there resulting in rusty cars but that's not why the area is called Rust Belt. Check it out sometime and you'll see what I mean.
The Jell-O/mormon belt:
-Idaho to Arizona, and through Canada and Mexico.
- the mormons left the at-the-time boundaries of the U.S. to escape oersecution and started their own nation for a while called Deseret (basically Utah without the corner missing).
- Once established in SLC, Brigham Young sent other settlers North and South from there, hence, the Mormon belt
Maybe a turquoise belt in Arizona, or since it's very small, you could call it a "buckle".
Lived in WA and OR west of the Cascades for my entire life, and never once heard the terms “Atheist Belt” or “Unchurched Belt”. I can’t imagine anyone I know naming that as a defining feature or trait of this region. I think most people would point to the amount of rain we get, or the fact that we’re especially outdoorsy and environmentally conscious, or industries like forestry, fishing, outdoor tourism, and specific types of agriculture like dairy, apples, marionberries, hazelnuts, Christmas trees, etc.
Yeah just Cascadia, although now I want a Cascadia Belt.
Can you do Europe’s belts next?
I fully had no idea i live in the rust belt lol
I live inbetween corn and rust belt. 1 mile southwest, fields and nothing else.
1 mile northeast, we have small cities.
I definitely would’ve taken some repetition to hear about some of the stranger belts.
It's terrible that you cut off the map of the Lake Ontario snow belt extent @10:27. That was the zone I wanted to see.
i would like to hear about the other belts in the list
I was wondering what was the deal with the Jello thing in fallout as well!
And there’s the we are on fire and in the news for something belt in California
The area in canada stretching from niagra to toronto is known as the golden horse shoe!
Dude you forgot the Pizza belt from NYC, through NJ, down to Philly.
I live in the Pretzel Belt and didn't even know it
A small correction: Mormon is not the correct way to refer to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Church of Jesus Christ). It is a reference to the Book of Mormon (a book of scripture in the Latter-day Saint canon) and was a nickname given by enemies of the Church during its early history. Calling members of the Church of Jesus Christ "Mormons" is like calling Muslims "Qur'anites" or Jews Torahs.
I would also point out that Salt Lake City has a relatively low Latter-day Saint population compared to other parts of the state, so the high jello consumption is almost certainly a regional phenomenon and not a religious one.
Used to be we had the Cotton Belt and the Pellegra Belt.
Some people called the Jello belt the “Mormon corridor”… or Morridor for LotR fans.
I’m rather partial to Morridor myself
As a proud Morridor resident I approve wholeheartedly.
Was wondering if we have Belts/Gürtel on a National Level in Germany as well. We could define some, but the term wouldn´t be used, at least for now. Gürtel seem to be rather a thing on Municipality Level like "Grüngürtel" (Green Belt) being an Area of Parks and Forests often where Medieval Fortifications once stood. Especially Cologne seems to be a good Example.
Another known one is the "Speckgürtel" (Bacon or probably more precisely Fat Belt) is an Area of High Population density and Income around a large City. Especially the one around Berlin is often named. It may be a bit comparable to the US-American Suburbanization Trend, but with a higher density and better connectivity. These Municipalities work on their own and aren´t dependant on the City they grew around.
That's interesting. I think we get the words "gird," "girdle" from your German "gurtel."
Black belt and cotton belt are oddly close to each other 💀
Hello rust better here ... live in Michigan... yes building really rust here I just need to walk a few miles and I will find a old rusty factory.....
9:37 the wheat belt looks like an outline of north & south america bruh
Bible Belt stretches into rust belt too
You can always find some stained glass/broken glass Jello at Mexican grocery and restaurants. Yummy
I used to live next to a corn field so “corn belt” tracks.
Each of the belts is connected to some sort of driver that may or may not apply to the majority of the belt itself. Some like the Corn or Cotton Belts are tied to rural/farming areas, while the Rust Belt is tied to decaying urban areas. Even the Bible Belt can be said to apply more to rural areas than urban ones. Even the geographic nature of the Sunbelt has alpine mountainous areas of the Southern Rockies and Sierra Nevada which mimic the snow belt in the Winter.
While belts themselves offer us interesting ways to sort and categorizing the nation, I think it's important to realize that they are manifested with more nuance than they are with a broad stroke of the paint brush.
Well said! I agree. For example, I've known Wiccans and Pagans in the Bible Belt and devout Christians in the Unchurched Belt. The sun often shines in the Frost Belt and sometimes it snows in the Sun Belt :)
Ah come on. You have the frost belt and snow belt, but what about the Salt Belt?
*cough* looking at you, WVDOH and MDSHA, every freakin winter!
I live in Washington state and I’ve never heard the term “atheist belt.” Washingtonians are famous for not attending church but i wouldn’t say they are athiests. More accurately, most people in the PNW just don’t think about religion that much. It never comes up in conversation. We are too busy hiking, skiing and kayaking and aren’t going to waste a sunday listening to some boring preacher. The same goes for BC and Oregon.
I live hear as well and Atheists is VERY inaccurate, even in woke Portland where I recently lived and Seattle most people believe in God they just as you say do not go to church, I now live in a small town of 1200 people in the PNW and it has four churches! Most do go to church here. Most people outside the PNW now have a very skewed view of the region after 2020 's constant riots of radicals like Antifa, the suburbs are not like that and certainly the small towns and rural areas that make up the majority of the region.
Yeah I'm an actual atheist from Washington state. I'm massively outnumbered by religious people. This dude is just making stuff up
I think the most well known are the Bible belt, rust belt, and the sun belt, snow belt too if you live here like I do ❄️🌨️ 🥶
I feel like there should also be an East Coast/West Coast belt cause living by the water is much different than the Midwest
I didn’t know the term “Bible Belt” was coined by Mencken…
I personally think the rust belt should be much bigger. I’m from St. Louis Missouri and I’ve seen firsthand many factories that sit empty and unused today. Also, Mormon corridor is a far more popular term than Jell-O belt.
It's pretty ironic that not only is there a Bible belt and an atheist belt but that my home state of West Virginia so happens to be in both belts.
Black Belt includes Maryland, it is one of the top 5 states that has a majority minority black population in the US because of that. Maryland is a southern state and a former slave state so the black belt section is inaccurate
Your right except that Maryland is not southern.
Also had Jim Crow laws.
Just bc marylanders sound funny don't make em southern 😂
@@AlexeiLjanej It's culturally northeast and southern. Geographically Mid-Atlantic. Technically it is southern because it's below the Mason dixon line and was a slave state.
@@JjjaaahhnnI’ve grown up in both the North and South. In Massachusetts, I was taught that Maryland was a north eastern state. In Georgia, I was taught it was mid-Atlantic. While it may be below the Mason-Dixon Line, that fact is pretty irrelevant today. What I would say is much more relevant is how the country sees the state today, which (admittedly anecdotally) is not Southern.
I don't think Fallout was necessarily referencing Mormons with the jello thing. Jello salads were the latest fad throughout all of America in the 50s and 60s (which is fallout's theme). It's more just a coincidence that Mormons are the group of people most likely to still make jello salad.
I would think Eastern Montana and West North Dakota should probably be in the frost belt.
You left out the Belt and Suspenders Belt
I don’t particularly agree with the map of the Sunbelt while I could see why that makes sense. Typically, the Sunbelt is used to reference the same area as the Bible belt.
Really? The Sun Belt includes, always, whenever anyone uses the term, cities like Phoenix, Las Vegas, the Florida cities, in addition to much of the Bible Belt. Basically, if a city has been growing like a weed the past decades, it likely is a Sun Belt city.
What's the point of calling somewhere the "SUN Belt" and not including the "Sunshine State" (Florida) and the state that rightfully should be called the "Sunshine State" (Arizona)?
I didn't watch the video after seeing the thumbnail. Still, that thumbnail is incredibly inaccurate in so many ways.
@@wilycoyote1924 I would include Florida in the sunbelt and at least northern Florida in the Bible Belt. I suppose Phoenix would be in the sunbelt too. Maybe I should have said Bible Belt plus some additional adjacent lands. If asked I would define the sun belt as the booming southern states and cities. I certainly would not include California in that since that’s where many of those people are fleeing.
Can’t believe he forgot the chip belt
Germany has actually a microships belt in Saxony 😅
Weißwurstäquator😉
For sure thought “jell-o belt” would be associated with old people lol
Where is your accent from? I assume you live in the US but it sounds like maybe your family immigrated here when you were a child? I've never heard that accent so I'm curious! Love your content
To my ears, it sounds like he is from the San Francisco Bay Area or thereabouts.
I think he's actually from Portugal. He said so in one of his earlier videos.
Im sorry, the rust belt goes down to at least ky. We use a metric ton of salt every year for winter, and cars rust out as fast as they come off the lot. Also there should be an auto belt. Following i75 from detroit down. Most car manufacturers follow i75, or are within 1-200miles of it.
Fun fact: Everyone knows kung fu in the black belt
They aren’t called belts, but Tornado Alley and Dixie Alley are two regions in the US that experience the most and most violent tornadoes in the world
I always thought Texas was in the sun belt
JELLO really is part of Mormon culture, especially in the Rocky Mountain region.
What If Italy 🇮🇹 broke up
I thought it had. After all, there’s Vatican City
it already happened, go back more than 150 years and you'll see
Utopia
I would still call it the spaghetti belt.
"Zone" comes from a Greek word mening "belt" and also "garter."
the only way i would want a remaster or remake is something in the style of divinity original sin 2, pillars of eternity: deadfire, or baldur's gate 3. basically, if they were to be remade, they should be remade in their own genre. obsidian would be well positioned to do this, but to be honest if i were tim cain, id say no. too big a risk of letting folks doen
America has as many belts as a Guilty Gear character
Ha
Contrary to popular believe, martial arts are not unusually widespread in the black belt
You forgot about the German belt in northern central USA.
A lot of belts but not one buckle to hold them together.
Is there a maple 🍁 syrup belt? Or a dairy belt?
Everything in NJ is covered in thick dark rust. Everything. How is it not in the rust belt?
From Utah, I don’t think I have seen a single person eat Jello.
@@BucketOLocos Moab doesn’t count
The coal belt, which stretches from eastern Kentucky into West Virginia and central Pennsylvania.
Petition to change jello-belt to Frysauce-belt
I liked this video. Time to check out the channel