Where is the bible belt?

Answer 1

The Midwest and the South.

Answer 2

Texas is considered the buckle of the bible belt. It extends generally east and north from Texas.

Aren't I lucky to be an atheist living in the buckle of the bible belt?

Answer 3

The Bible Belt is an area including a number of southern and midwestern states in the USA in which fervent Protestantism is a pervasive part of the culture. The stronghold of the Bible Belt is typically The South.

Although exact boundaries do not exist, it is generally considered to cover much of the area stretching from Texas north to Kansas, east to Virginia, and south to northern Florida. The term is also sometimes used to describe the generally conservative province of Alberta, in Canada, or the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. Utah is often called the "Bible Belt of the West".

It is also interesting to note that Nashville, Tennessee in addition to being referred to as "Music City, U.S.A.", is sometimes also referred to as "The Buckle of the Bible Belt". This play on words is especially favored by Nashvillians due to the large (jokingly referred to as "dinner plate sized") belt buckles stereotypically worn by country music artists and the fact that several Protestant denominations call Nashville home. Many other cities and towns are commonly called the "buckle of the Bible Belt," including Tulsa, home of Oral Roberts University; Dayton, Tennessee, site of the Scopes Monkey Trial, and Abilene, Texas, home Abilene Christian University.

The "belt" terminology is common in the U.S. to describe regions with a roughly east-west orientation that share a feature, such as the Rust Belt, a term to describe declining industrial areas of the northeast and upper midwest, and the Sun Belt, a term for hot-weather states stretching from coast to coast.

Answer 4

The South, esp. Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. Some include South & North Carolina, Oklahoma and Missouri.

Answer 5

glad you ask, I live in what people here not only call the bible belt , but they call this place the buckle of the bible belt.
east tennessee is it. a strip of cloudy obscurity, like looking up into the night sky at the center of the milky way. with all it's cluster of stars in the middle. fundamentalist and charismatic christianity proliferates here. I live in a place called crossville where there are over 200 churches packed into one small county.
the churches here control everything. they play the role, they establish an image of godlyness but Its really all about money and image. very clickish. Everybody has to look and dress a certain way. drive a certain model of car, have a certain status among their peers and so on. you have to have lots of money for them to accept you. They are about as spiritual as a concrete cinder block. There is so much hate and bigotry in this little town. Most are ultra right wing conservative republicans.Bush country.They hate minorities and yankees and evrybody else they doesn't think like them or look like them. Their arrogant and they gossip. They will smile at your face and stab you in the back with slanderous gossip to others when you are not around. if you get arrested for any small infraction at all they will put your name in the local paper so everyone willl know about it and ostercize you for years because of it whether you are guilty or not your name goes in the paper. ON saturday they go out and hunt and kill animals in the woods for sport and brag about what they killed in church on sunday. There is no counter culture here. there is no freedom to walk around town at night without being harassed by the cops. these people are hypocrites, they are afraid of anything they don't understand and they don't have any love or compassion they will cut you down any way they can. they are so damn judgemental. They havn't accepted that the civil war is over and they lost. I could write about more atrocities that go on here. if you want I'll fill you in.

Answer 6

The bible belt is mostly the midwestern states, such as Missouri and Kansas. They are known as this because of their strong Republican, conservative views and the high percentage of religious people living there.

Answer 7

I Think it has spread out a bit.

But it used to be considered the south: IE Georgia the Carolina's Mississippi, Texas Oklahoma and others in the area. I don't think it stretched all the way to the left coast.

Answer 8

Holding up the Koran trousers

Answer 9

the southern states of the USA, the same ones that thought Slavery was A-OK

Answer 10

Here is a map showing the approximate region:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:BibleBelt.png