The Stroke Belt is a group of 11 states where the risk of having a stroke or other types of cardiovascular disease is significantly higher than the national average. According to the Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention Center , researchers suspect that high rates of obesity, smoking, and high blood pressure contribute to the preponderance of strokes and cardiovascular disease in the region. The Sun Belt stretches across the entire southern portion of the continental US and is known for its warm weather and sunny skies.
The northern border of the region roughly aligns with the 36th parallel. Since the end of World War II, the Sun Belt has seen a boom in its population and economic opportunities, and Census data show the region is growing at a faster rate than the Northeast and Midwest. The Unchurched Belt is sort of like the opposite of the Bible Belt.
Located in the northwestern corner of the country, it's the region with the lowest rates of religious participation and church attendance in the nation. The last of the major belt regions is the Wheat Belt — the part of the Great Plains where wheat is the primary crop. Really, the region is made up of two different wheat-growing areas. The southern portion, including parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, grows hard red winter wheat.
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Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log out. Other Bible Belt states usually vote Republican, but candidates such as Bill Clinton from Arkansas have sometimes swayed the votes in Bible Belt states. In , Matthew Zook and Mark Graham utilized online place name data to identify among other things the preponderance of the word "church" locally.
Other Bible Belt-style regions have been named in the United States. The Rust Belt of the former industrial heartland of America is one such region. Newport, Frank. Brunn, Stanley D. Weissmann, Jordan. Heron, Melonie, and Robert N. Kramer M. R, et al. Sparks, Elicka Peterson. Hamilton, Brady E. Braxton, Jim et al. Monkovic, Toni. Turned Red and Blue.
Graham, Mark, and Matthew Zook. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Mencken, who first used the term in , when he was covering the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. The term first appeared in one of his articles that he wrote for the Chicago Daily Tribune. Mencken used the term in a derogatory way, mocking the religious zealousness of the people in the vast U. In fact, when describing the region, he also referred to it as the Hookworm Belt and Lynching Belt.
In , a geographer named Wilbur Zelinsky argued that the Bible Belt consisted of areas in which the Southern Baptists, Methodists, and evangelical Christians were the predominant religious denominations. These areas comprised most of what constitutes the U. Interestingly, however, he did not consider the southern parts of Louisiana, Texas, or Florida as being part of the Bible Belt, no matter how religious they were.
His reason for excluding these parts of the U. Today, however, some view Utah as a part of the Bible Belt, even though a non-Protestant church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, has the greatest number of followers in the state.
The obvious distinguishing feature of the Bible Belt is the religiosity of its people. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the area that today is referred to as the Bible Belt region was mainly a center of Anglican or Episcopalian beliefs.
Things started changing in the 19th century when other denominations, especially the Southern Baptists , began increasing in numbers. Evangelical Protestantism grew to become the central belief system dominating the Bible Belt region by the 20th century. Mencken, an American writer, and satirist, in while he was in Dayton, Tennessee reporting on the Scopes Monkey Trial. Over the subsequent decades of the s, the term Bible Belt slowly gained popularity in academia and popular media in American South as a way to refer to the socially conservative part of the country with higher church attendance rates, above the national average religious belief adherence, and conservative social and political views.
Oklahoma was named the capital city of the ten states that comprise the Bible Belt in the Saturday Evening Post in According to Wilbur Zelinsky , by , the Bible Belt was defined as a region where the main predominant religious groups were the evangelical Christians, Methodists, and Southern Baptists.
It continues through the south to northern Florida, and in the north to Texas. Due to the high percentage of Catholics in the population, Louisiana was not included in the region Zelinsky outlined. The article mainly defined the television viewing habits on Sundays for five different religious evangelical television programs.
The region defined by Stephen Tweedie exceeded the one mapped by Zelinsky.
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