I’m familiar with the rust belt, sun belt, snow belt, bible belt, and Jell-O belt, but are there any other belts that exist in the US?
I’m familiar with the rust belt, sun belt, snow belt, bible belt, and Jell-O belt, but are there any other belts that exist in the US?
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Those are the ones I knew of too. But there are many apparently.
List of belt regions of the United States – Wikipedia
There’s a corn belt. I don’t know what the jello belt is though, that’s a new one for me
Kidney stone belt. https://www.ncpedia.org/kidney-stone-belt#:~:text=The%20Kidney%20Stone%20Belt%20refers,or%20kidney%20calculi%2C%20is%20excessive.
Black belt is probably the other most famous
Undisputed WWE Champion?
There’s tornado alley, not a belt, but similar idea
I have a leather belt
There’s the hoagie belt* from Philadelphia to Camden to down the shore
* it exists because I just made it up
People Magazine belt, Garfield belt, 17th Century French Drama belt.
But in all seriousness, there’s also the Borscht Belt in New York state, which was a popular summer vacation destination among Jewish New Yorkers in the mid 20th century, and the Corn Belt which stretches from the Dakotas to Central Illinois and produces lots of corn.
It doesn’t really exist anymore, but we used to have the Borscht Belt.
Corn belt
The “Borscht Belt” refers to the Catskill Mountain region of upstate New York,
Rust belt
Salt Belt.
Our cars are all rusted to hell and back.
The Pizza Belt.
The Bible Belt
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Whats the “snow belt?” Would that just be “the Northern third?”
Checking in from the coney belt.
There are several places referred to as The Banana Belt
There’s a lefse line somewhere in Iowa.
I grew up in Kansas City, where very few people eat lefse and many have never heard of it.
In the Twin Cities, loads of families make their own and everybody’s at least had it somewhere.
That means, somewhere in Iowa, there’s a Lefse Line. I guess it’s possible it’s just the Minnesota state line, but I feel like Clear Lake probably has lefse game. It just vibes that way.
Is it Dows? Ames? Iowa, I need to know this.
We have a snow belt in northern Ohio due to the lake effect snow.
Never heard of the jello belt
Corn (maize) belt
I’ve heard before of a granite belt and marble belt in New England but that may just be a thing geologists care about. I got to look up Jell-o belt haha
The “Lettuce Belt” is more of an industry term for the area from Salinas, CA to Yuma, AZ that grows most of the nation’s salad greens. Harvesting crews follow the growing seasons from the temperate summers of Salinas to the temperate, sunny winters of Yuma and back again.
Source: am vegetable farmer.
Roads can be a belt if it goes around a city. Houston has a Beltway 8, for example
Jello belt???
There used to be a “Cotton Belt.” But you only really hear about that in a historical context. I’m not sure it’s really a thing anymore…
Goiter Belt
Living in Utah, I’ve never heard us called the Jello belt, but I’m sure that’s about us. Out of random curiosity, do other people outside Utah mix cottage cheese with whipped cream and Jello? Sometimes with pineapple. Or is that a Utah thing?
California has its own Bible Belt.
Not a belt, but same concept: The Cheddar Curtain. Of the ones you listed, I’ve only heard of the Bible Belt & the Rust Belt.
The tornado belt
I hear “fog belt” all the time here in northern California. It’s apparently pretty commonly used for coastal north/central CA (per USGS, see link).
Pine belt, thats in mississippi.
Parkinson’s Belt, an area with higher-than-average rates of Parkinson’s Disease
I have a leather belt, and a cloth belt, my daughter has some plastic belts and I think that my son has a rattle snake belt.
Just an FYI…the Rust belt used to be the Steel belt.
Gnat belt
The main thorough fare in Madison WI is called the Beltline, does that count?
There’s the Slate Belt in NE PA.
The BIBLE belt.
Actually has a lot of influence on a lot of things in that section of the country.
Not a “belt” but there’s also Tornado Alley.
“Inside the Beltway” refers to the Capital Beltway but often refers to Washington DC insiders.
The biggest one. Yo mama’s.
We have Seat Belts?
So you made up at least one of those.
The spanking belt.
Canada here. My kids call them church basement potatoes.
Jell-o belt?
Banana Belts… Brookings Oregon, is the first that comes to mind.
The black belt and the cotton belt, which are about the same thing. Basically the region where cotton grew well and we had a lot of slaves. Today there is a large African American population in those rural areas, in some cases a majority.
the snack belt
Slate Belt.
Kidney stone belt
There’s the belt around my waist, that is increasingly too tight.
Learned something new today, jello belt. Sounds like a belt for a fat guy.
The Beltway is the nickname for a highway that runs around Washington DC if that helps
Pine belt! Funny enough, the pine belt and the Bible Belt overlap quite a bit. The pine belt is a large part of the south where, you guessed it, pine trees grow like crazy.
Edit: I was completely wrong. The Pine Belt is only a region of Mississippi, but pine trees do grow in Alabama and Georgia like crazy.
The Beltway in the DC area that diverts cars around the city itself. Other cities have something similar. Usually leads to suburban sprawl.
The Mormon Belt refers to Utah, Idaho and Arizona. Also referred to as The Zion Curtain.
We had the borscht belt in the northeast.
IWashington State, a place known for having tons of rain on the western side, the small rain shadow caused by the Olympic mountain range is called the Banana Belt.
Snow belt
The United States championship belt
There are all kinds of colloquial names.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_belt_regions_of_the_United_States
The term corridor is growing in popularity at least in terms of socioeconomic and political context.
Meth belt? Fentanyl belt? Running from TX up to Michigan on the west side of the Mississippi…and Here’s a list of “Belts” in the US…I say that as an Arkansan.
Grain belt
Mostly unrelated and also anachronistic but…
Some time ago, someone said that a good replacement for the Mason-Dixon Line was a thing called the IHOP-Waffle House Line.
But of course, IHOP ruined that by expanding down south.
Lutefisk belt
Dairy Belt; Frost Belt; Salt Belt; Cotton Belt; Stroke Belt; Gun Belt
Weed Belt in the 70s-2000s in NorCal: The Emerald Triangle.
Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity County. Then shit became legal, and indoor became normal too.
And let’s not forget “Tornado Alley” which is N. Texas,Oklahoma and Kansas.
We have a Belt Parkway in NYC
I’m pretty sure I’m in the buckle of the weed belt.
The pizza belt stretching from Connecticut, through NYC and Jersey, hitting parks of eastern pa
Borscht Belt
The Black Belt. Most of South Alabama. Black soil, exceptional for growing.
I’m at the junctions of the rust belt, bible belt, and black belt
In healthcare I’ve heard of the stroke belt, gallstone belt, kidney stone belt, but not sure if they’re official. Might just be things doctors say about the south, mainly.
There’s the Stroke Belt for those who work in hospitals in the south lmao
There is a “Black Belt” that runs through the South where cotton farming was most productive. It is actually the ancient fault line where Gondwana and Laurasia split if I recall correctly. Still reflected in voting patterns today.
German belt
>There is a German belt consisting of areas with predominantly German American populations that extends across the United States from eastern Pennsylvania, where many of the first German Americans settled, to the Oregon coast
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Americans?wprov=sfla1
This one is also neat as it literally looks like a belt across the lower 48.
This is really worldwide, but it exists a little in the US a bit, too – the hair belt. It’s where the hairiest people live. It tends to be in the more central areas of the US, as well as the Mediterranean, internationally.
I’ve been wearing a grip s i x every day for like 10 years and it still looks brand new.
We have the ‘meth belt’ in California. It runs north/south and basically is inland of the major coastal population centers.
Borscht Belt
Rust belt, Bible Belt
Rust belt
Corn belt
Black belt (named for the color of the soil, not for the color of the people who live there)
Bible belt
Hummus belt…Detroit, Toledo, Akron, Cleveland have had a lot of Lebanese and Syrian immigrants settle over the last 125ish years to support manufacturing booms, and so hummus (and other delightful middle eastern foods) are commonplace. Most fun, I think, is the gas stations here and there that have someone’s Lebanese mom selling the amazing hummus she makes herself.
We have a Jell-O belt?
Bible Belt.
The teen pregnancy belt, the cigarette smoking belt, the murder belt, and the high school dropout belt and the domestic violence belt are all interchangeable with the “Bible Belt.”
Corn Belt, Cotton Belt, Wheat Belt, Black Belt, Gun Belt, Fruit Belt, Pine Belt, Lead Belt, Stroke Belt, Borscht Belt
There used be a Goiter Belt before iodized salt.
Computer belt: stretches from Redmond, WA to Palo Alto, CA
Not belts, but Dust Bowl.
I want Liberal Suspenders to become a thing (east & west coast). I dunno
There’s the Banana Belt in Washington
I have a brown leather belt and a black leather belt.
In Alabama we have the black belt which is a strip of fertile farm land across the middle of the state.
The kidney stone belt! Dehydration in the hot climates cause lots of kidney stones.
I live in the corn belt. Iowa is a great place to live.
Definitely never heard of a Jello Belt.
Rot belt. Like the rust belt but the farming and textile industries are dying. All over the south and Midwest.
The chicken wing belt, courtesy of The Great Chicken Wing Hunt.
The stroke belt-mostly southeast/midwest states if I remember correctly.
We have the bungalow belt, tons of that style of homes.
There’s The Bourbon Trail…same idea 🥃