@@keturahspencerit however isn’t exactly a good idea. There are many hazards in abandoned buildings one of which is the potential for structural collapse. Abandoned buildings have often been abandoned for years or even decades and during that time several factors such as weather and age of the building cause its structural integrity to decay over time eventually resulting in the building becoming unstable and could potentially cause it to collapse at any moment.
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).
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 *****.*
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
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
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.
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?
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."
@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.
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!
Not to mention, all of the soda shops. The town I live in (in Utah) is around 30,000 and there are 5 or 6 soda shops, which seems like a lot to me. Also, people drink soda like coffee.
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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
@@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.
Yeah, I've lived in Utah most of my life, and this is not a thing. I'm sure there are indivuduals who put alcohol in jello, but it is absolutely not a cultural thing. We just like jello more than other people.
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.
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.
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, obviously. no one said it was one of the MOST defining traits of the region. it’s just relevant when talking about religiosity around the country.
The inland Northwest eastern Washington, north Idaho, and northeast Oregon used to be called the Inland Empire. I assume that it may have been started from its political point of view being different from the coast northwest
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 🇳🇵
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
9:49 The "Frost Belt" isn't so much known for heavy snow fall, but it's cold weather which allows it to keep snow on the ground a lot longer than a Western state, create lots of ice, etc. Heavy snow fall only occurs in Western US, but often doesn't keep it around as much due to the sun shine. For example, Denver gets twice the national snowfall average, but doesn't keep it around anywhere near as long as places like Chicago.
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
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.
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
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 :)
I'm old enough to remember how the Mormon jello thing got started. In the 70s 80s and early 90s, potluck socials were very common in Mormon culture (probably long before that as well, but I have no experience earlier than that). At almost every one of these events there were a few dishes you could count on making an appearance in one form or another. One of these dishes was a lime jello with shredded carrots salad. There were many others as well, mostly low cost dishes because Mormons had large families and not necessarily a lot of money. These recipes were widely shared among Mormon housewives and passed down generationally. At one point in the early ninety's if I recall correctly the jello company took notice of the high amount of jello being purchased and their marketing department leaned into it, declaring Utah the jello capitol of the world. Local newspapers and TV news picked up the story and the Mormon community embraced the title. Three decades later and potlucks are nowhere near as popular, far fewer cook family meals, and I haven't had a jello carrot salad for over a decade, but, the jello label still persists as a cultural identifier in the Mormon communities.
The new favorite jello dish in Utah appears to be raspberry pretzel jello salad. Mormons have smaller families now and are more wealthy, so it seems they've stepped up their jello game.
As a Mechanic in the sunbelt I always assumed the rust belt referred to the high amount of road salt used there and how any car over 10 years old has lost 1/4 of its weight to rust.
There used to be a cannabis belt, but now it's too vast to be considered regional in any sense. It would be interesting to see a 'reader's belt' where people regularly patronize bookstores & libraries. I suspect that's a coastal thing so they'd be several, along with islands like Chicago & Atlanta.
As someone who grew up Mormon, Jell-O belt was so deeply funny to me. You bet that any Mormon function will have it's share of Jell-O's and Jell-O salads.
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.
Jello belt is odd. I'd have thought it was Illinois/Indiana where my grandparents believed it was an excellent desert especially if you put marshmallows and/or carrots in it.
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.
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
@@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.
Kinda bummed that you mentioned a Banana Belt but didn't elaborate. Is there some place that grows bananas? Is there some place where bananas are especially prized? Where?
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.
4:58 "The Church of Ladder-Day Saints has not shown great affection towards the term"; but are you saying that have shown SOME affection towards the jello belt term?
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.
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.
As someone who's only lived in Oregon and Washington, it boggles my mind when I hear how you can get a lot of flack just for not going to church in the South. About half the people you meet in the Northwest cities aren't religious and a lot of the religious folk don't bother going to church. There definitely are religious church goers around, but it's not this huge cultural deal in the region like it is in the rest of the US.
*Do you know any additional "Belts" in the US, or in other countries?*
In Europe its "bananas" 😅. m.ruclips.net/video/3ZioReYfirY/видео.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 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.
@@keturahspencerit however isn’t exactly a good idea. There are many hazards in abandoned buildings one of which is the potential for structural collapse. Abandoned buildings have often been abandoned for years or even decades and during that time several factors such as weather and age of the building cause its structural integrity to decay over time eventually resulting in the building becoming unstable and could potentially cause it to collapse at any moment.
@@jfournerat1274dude there is a whole niche on RUclips of messing around in abandoned buildings
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
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?
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.
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.
Not to mention, all of the soda shops. The town I live in (in Utah) is around 30,000 and there are 5 or 6 soda shops, which seems like a lot to me. Also, people drink soda like coffee.
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 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."
🌪"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.”
I believe this needs to be a series since there’s belts I’ve never heard of
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.goodfellas Yes. It's called geophagy. There are RUclips 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
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 😂
Yeah. But Jello Belt sounds funnier
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.
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
Cincinnati in three: Bible, Rust (which I disagree with) and Corn. What a place.
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.
Yeah, I've lived in Utah most of my life, and this is not a thing. I'm sure there are indivuduals who put alcohol in jello, but it is absolutely not a cultural thing. We just like jello more than other people.
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
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.
Im in Ulster County & Im bummed our little two county Borscht Belt wasn't detailed.
How ya gonna mention the Banana Belt and the Pretzel Belt but then just talk about the ones Everybody already knows about? Sequel time
You forgot the Money Belt along 95 from DC/Richmond to Boston/Portland ME
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 black belt and sun belt should cover all of eastern North Carolina.
I have been referring to the Bible Belt as the "Bubba Belt" ever since I lived there for 20 years.
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*
Lake Huron: Am I nothing to you?
1:33 I find the placement of the FRUIT belt offensive and triggering...
@@TheAlchaemist Definitely fruity
well get back in basement and under the bed
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
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.
yeah, obviously. no one said it was one of the MOST defining traits of the region. it’s just relevant when talking about religiosity around the country.
The Black Belt also included Maryland
@@jbenjamin59 Mare-Land. Ball-MOE
The inland Northwest eastern Washington, north Idaho, and northeast Oregon used to be called the Inland Empire. I assume that it may have been started from its political point of view being different from the coast northwest
I would've liked to hear the Cotton Belt mentioned...
it's so significant in US history.
It even had a railroad named after it!
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
Nice video, it's been a while since I saw your video
Welcome back!
Contrary to popular believe, martial arts are not unusually widespread in the black belt
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
Can you do Europe’s belts next?
9:49 The "Frost Belt" isn't so much known for heavy snow fall, but it's cold weather which allows it to keep snow on the ground a lot longer than a Western state, create lots of ice, etc. Heavy snow fall only occurs in Western US, but often doesn't keep it around as much due to the sun shine. For example, Denver gets twice the national snowfall average, but doesn't keep it around anywhere near as long as places like Chicago.
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".
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
Dude you forgot the Pizza belt from NYC, through NJ, down to Philly.
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.
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 live inbetween corn and rust belt. 1 mile southwest, fields and nothing else.
1 mile northeast, we have small cities.
Proud sun belt resident here! Thanks for the video
Iowa can be considered a rust belt state too in the Mississippi river border. Similar aesthetics to St Louis abandoned areas
i would like to hear about the other belts in the list
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 :)
I'm old enough to remember how the Mormon jello thing got started. In the 70s 80s and early 90s, potluck socials were very common in Mormon culture (probably long before that as well, but I have no experience earlier than that). At almost every one of these events there were a few dishes you could count on making an appearance in one form or another. One of these dishes was a lime jello with shredded carrots salad. There were many others as well, mostly low cost dishes because Mormons had large families and not necessarily a lot of money. These recipes were widely shared among Mormon housewives and passed down generationally. At one point in the early ninety's if I recall correctly the jello company took notice of the high amount of jello being purchased and their marketing department leaned into it, declaring Utah the jello capitol of the world. Local newspapers and TV news picked up the story and the Mormon community embraced the title. Three decades later and potlucks are nowhere near as popular, far fewer cook family meals, and I haven't had a jello carrot salad for over a decade, but, the jello label still persists as a cultural identifier in the Mormon communities.
The new favorite jello dish in Utah appears to be raspberry pretzel jello salad. Mormons have smaller families now and are more wealthy, so it seems they've stepped up their jello game.
As a Mechanic in the sunbelt I always assumed the rust belt referred to the high amount of road salt used there and how any car over 10 years old has lost 1/4 of its weight to rust.
There used to be a cannabis belt, but now it's too vast to be considered regional in any sense. It would be interesting to see a 'reader's belt' where people regularly patronize bookstores & libraries. I suspect that's a coastal thing so they'd be several, along with islands like Chicago & Atlanta.
And there’s the we are on fire and in the news for something belt in California
Black belt and cotton belt are oddly close to each other 💀
As someone who grew up Mormon, Jell-O belt was so deeply funny to me. You bet that any Mormon function will have it's share of Jell-O's and Jell-O salads.
Glad to hear!
I fully had no idea i live in the rust belt lol
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.
I definitely would’ve taken some repetition to hear about some of the stranger belts.
4:30 The Church doesn’t like it because they know the people aren’t eating the Jell-O 😂
Being a Kansas City boy, I always thought of Oklahoma as Midwest, not Southwest. And eastern Texas as Southeast, not Southwest.
Jello belt is odd. I'd have thought it was Illinois/Indiana where my grandparents believed it was an excellent desert especially if you put marshmallows and/or carrots in it.
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.
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 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 ❄️🌨️ 🥶
JELLO really is part of Mormon culture, especially in the Rocky Mountain region.
The area in canada stretching from niagra to toronto is known as the golden horse shoe!
Kinda bummed that you mentioned a Banana Belt but didn't elaborate. Is there some place that grows bananas? Is there some place where bananas are especially prized? Where?
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.
Used to be we had the Cotton Belt and the Pellegra Belt.
4:58 "The Church of Ladder-Day Saints has not shown great affection towards the term"; but are you saying that have shown SOME affection towards the jello belt term?
I was wondering what was the deal with the Jello thing in fallout as well!
Huh ... I always thought it was called the rust belt because all the cars there rust from all the salt used on the roads in winter.
9:37 the wheat belt looks like an outline of north & south america bruh
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.
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 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.
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."
As someone who's only lived in Oregon and Washington, it boggles my mind when I hear how you can get a lot of flack just for not going to church in the South. About half the people you meet in the Northwest cities aren't religious and a lot of the religious folk don't bother going to church. There definitely are religious church goers around, but it's not this huge cultural deal in the region like it is in the rest of the US.
I live in the Pretzel Belt and didn't even know it
This ain’t even accurate Minnesota is 100% part of the iron belt, we provided all the iron for 90% of American steel and iron
I feel like there should also be an East Coast/West Coast belt cause living by the water is much different than the Midwest
The Bible Belt overlaps heavily with the marriage to siblings belt.
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.....
You can always find some stained glass/broken glass Jello at Mexican grocery and restaurants. Yummy
The only ones I've heard of were the rust belt and the bible belt
I’ve lived in the northwest for my whole life and I’ve never ever heard someone say the atheist belt
The coal belt, which stretches from eastern Kentucky into West Virginia and central Pennsylvania.
Bible Belt is in Indiana. Indiana is also Midwest. It goes almost to south bend
@@Jjjaaahhnn exactly.
I used to live next to a corn field so “corn belt” tracks.
I wanna know about the banana belt
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Bible Belt stretches into rust belt too
Fun Fact: The Bile belt is also the gay po rn belt!
I would think Eastern Montana and West North Dakota should probably be in the frost belt.
I move that Boston to DC be henceforth known as the Money Belt.