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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@General.Knowledge 26 күн бұрын
*Do you know any additional "Belts" in the US, or in other countries?*
@user-ul8po5cj1r 26 күн бұрын
In Europe its "bananas" 😅. m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/acCZorWWvszNoo0.html
@indigoguy12 26 күн бұрын
Alligator Belt. It’s only in Florida and south Alabama.
@jaketheauroran 26 күн бұрын
Tight belt - aka all Americans
@ericstuen2717 26 күн бұрын
Timber belt - places in Washington, Oregon, & Idaho where logging is common.
@schnarg_da_cigsmoker_25 26 күн бұрын
The Belt
@mono-no-aware.Lem. 26 күн бұрын
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).
@General.Knowledge 26 күн бұрын
Okay! I'll make a part two with the ones I left out :)
@lukasrentz3238 24 күн бұрын
Especially Pretzel Belt picked my Interest. As well as the Borschscht Belt.
@chris1141987 24 күн бұрын
I've never heard of a pretzel belt. Where is that!
@mrmadmaxalot 14 күн бұрын
Where is the pretzel belt? Is it as amazing as it sounds? Asking for a friend who likes pretzels too much.
@timestorm5687 12 күн бұрын
@@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
@mrcleanthebaguette1422 25 күн бұрын
I live right in between the rust belt and the corn belt. Our two main attractions are exploring abandoned buildings and staring at corn
@keturahspencer 7 күн бұрын
Exploring abandoned buildings sounds like fun, actually.
@HEADBANGER4LIFE37 26 күн бұрын
I've lived in Colorado for 41 years and I've never heard of the jello-belt
@augustuscaesar8287 26 күн бұрын
What? Have you been living under a rock? Nah, jk. I've never heard it either.
@colliwer 26 күн бұрын
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
@LewConsulting 26 күн бұрын
Well, it barely even goes through Colorado so that’s not that surprising
@IdiotOwO-ye8ti 26 күн бұрын
How have you never heard of The jello belt
@Pugetwitch 26 күн бұрын
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.
@a-sane-person 26 күн бұрын
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 *****.*
@iamboxelz7276 26 күн бұрын
What can I say, we like jello
@colliwer 26 күн бұрын
If you knew more Mormons it would make perfect sense, trust me
@Twinkiepower420 26 күн бұрын
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
@The_Forgettable1 26 күн бұрын
We don't eat jello THAT much, but my family always had a box of the stuff on hand, I mean, it tastes good
@GB-ez6ge 26 күн бұрын
@@The_Forgettable1 I haven't had it in decades, you are proof of the Jello Belt 🙂
@kaieastwood3373 26 күн бұрын
Cant belive you didnt cover the borscht and pretzel belt
@mardiffv.8775 26 күн бұрын
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?
@mudgetheexpendable 26 күн бұрын
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!
@mfresh11 25 күн бұрын
@@mudgetheexpendable Bill Cosby knows
@monkeydank7842 10 күн бұрын
Prohibition is useless.
@mudgetheexpendable 26 күн бұрын
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."
@mapache-ehcapam 26 күн бұрын
Is it? or is that just a coincidence?
@ronaldpippen8164 25 күн бұрын
@@mapache-ehcapam Come to the coastal plains region of North Carolina and find out.
@ManicMercurianAstrology 25 күн бұрын
I was thinking that too! And no its not a coincidence
@clevelandwest9276 25 күн бұрын
And thats also the area where the most blacks live in the u.s
@themanifestorsmind 24 күн бұрын
@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.
@crosswordboss 26 күн бұрын
🌪"TORNADO BELT" was not mentioned🌪
@strifera 26 күн бұрын
It's more commonly called "Tornado Alley", but yeah, I'd consider it very much one of the US belts despite the name.
@jordanashtonsmith5436 26 күн бұрын
get over it
@LawrenceEvers 26 күн бұрын
I’ve always heard it called tornado alley
@slibertas1996 25 күн бұрын
@@crosswordboss yep. It’s tornado alley
@monamartin9915 24 күн бұрын
Tornado Belt or Tornado Alley deserve it “RESPECT.”
@anniegerlach2563 10 күн бұрын
Please do part 2 where you cover the belts you didn’t cover here. I demand it
@anniegerlach2563 10 күн бұрын
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
@crenfick7750 23 күн бұрын
The lack of inclusion of the borscht belt was devastating.
@WYLDXHORSE23 22 күн бұрын
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
@kk7dinhamradio 20 күн бұрын
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.
@fuckeduphippie 19 күн бұрын
@@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.
@DavidLimofLimReport 26 күн бұрын
America: i'm wearing all the belts!!
@kckc4955 26 күн бұрын
We are the Joey of countries 😊
@TheU.S. 26 күн бұрын
reminds me of Obama putting an award around Obama’s neck
@HughGenvoenni 24 күн бұрын
We wear all the belts…yet we still can’t keep our pants up…. America 2024 in a nutshell 😆
@crazymusicchick 23 күн бұрын
Lol my mum grew up in the wheat belt in Australia
@slightlyaboveaveragebutaverage 9 күн бұрын
America looking like a final fantasy character
@machjiffy4710 26 күн бұрын
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
@commodorezero 26 күн бұрын
You never heard "Rust Belt" to describe Midwest?
@diegogalvan1810 26 күн бұрын
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
@Baykirk693 26 күн бұрын
Me personally, I’ve only regularly heard of the Rust Belt, Bible Belt and the Sun Belt
@machjiffy4710 26 күн бұрын
@@diegogalvan1810 I've never stayed in the midwest for longer than a day. Only lived on the east and west coasts.
@Mr.TrUnrBrigs-oo4yz 26 күн бұрын
Rust belt kinda forecasts GDP, or how well business and industry is going to do nation wide.
@kenaikuskokwim9694 26 күн бұрын
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.
@jimc.goodfellas 25 күн бұрын
Eat the soil?
@kenaikuskokwim9694 23 күн бұрын
@@jimc.goodfellas Yes. It's called geophagy. There are KZfaq videos about it. Not just any soil, though. It has to be good.
@seikoellis17 22 күн бұрын
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
@TheAlchaemist 26 күн бұрын
1:33 I find the placement of the FRUIT belt offensive and triggering...
@mfresh11 25 күн бұрын
@@TheAlchaemist Definitely fruity
@loganbagley7822 26 күн бұрын
Growing up in eastern Idaho, we usually used the term "Mormon Corridor" or "I-15 Corridor."
@GreyWolfLeaderTW 25 күн бұрын
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).
@brianquigley1940 24 күн бұрын
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?
@Culero4 24 күн бұрын
Yeah Funeral Potato belt would've made way more sense 😂
@blackbarnz 16 күн бұрын
Im in Ulster County & Im bummed our little two county Borscht Belt wasn't detailed.
@sethelrod9099 23 күн бұрын
I believe this needs to be a series since there’s belts I’ve never heard of
@justhereforthefoliage 23 күн бұрын
Cincinnati in three: Bible, Rust (which I disagree with) and Corn. What a place.
@rogaineablar5608 12 күн бұрын
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.
@steppenhenge 26 күн бұрын
the fallout jello is just because it's also stereotyped as 1950s
@General.Knowledge 26 күн бұрын
Ah okay! Thanks for the clarification
@jbrwokyruges 24 күн бұрын
Definitely! I mean the in 50s to 60s people were even making vegetable & seafood jello molds with unflavored gelatin. *shudder*
@Quantum-yz9fc 26 күн бұрын
Duluth being outside of the rust belt is insane
@tomfields3682 25 күн бұрын
It's a shipping town, never had much manufacturing to speak of.
@mfresh11 25 күн бұрын
@@Quantum-yz9fc The rust only makes its way there through the aquifers, so technically it doesn’t count
@GB-ez6ge 26 күн бұрын
You forgot the Money Belt along 95 from DC/Richmond to Boston/Portland ME
@gamingsolveseverything 26 күн бұрын
Nice video, it's been a while since I saw your video
@General.Knowledge 26 күн бұрын
Welcome back!
@mrsawiggins 25 күн бұрын
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? 😂
@ryancurtis1996 15 күн бұрын
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.
@rockyshore7017 6 күн бұрын
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!
@chrisbacos 26 күн бұрын
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
@ronaldpippen8164 25 күн бұрын
The black belt and sun belt should cover all of eastern North Carolina.
@Ryan_hey 6 күн бұрын
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.
@spookyduck13 13 күн бұрын
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
@eulailalady491 26 күн бұрын
Proud sun belt resident here! Thanks for the video
@brianwilcox2543 22 күн бұрын
I have been referring to the Bible Belt as the "Bubba Belt" ever since I lived there for 20 years.
@darnchacha1632 26 күн бұрын
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
@corynnes.2021 23 күн бұрын
Lake Huron: Am I nothing to you?
@thunderhaze8500 15 күн бұрын
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 🇳🇵
@michaelsmith4904 25 күн бұрын
i would like to hear about the other belts in the list
@Bit-while_going 11 күн бұрын
Maybe a turquoise belt in Arizona, or since it's very small, you could call it a "buckle".
@jbenjamin59 26 күн бұрын
The Black Belt also included Maryland
@mfresh11 25 күн бұрын
@@jbenjamin59 Mare-Land. Ball-MOE
@jjmartin6422 9 күн бұрын
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
@nrdgrl00 24 күн бұрын
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.
@avoqado89 18 күн бұрын
Yeah just Cascadia, although now I want a Cascadia Belt.
@Znoxyboy 25 күн бұрын
Damn I really wanted to know about the "Borscht Belt"
@blackbarnz 16 күн бұрын
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.
@StephenKon-wq3ki 10 күн бұрын
Me too
@jaykubisanidiot8657 24 күн бұрын
How ya gonna mention the Banana Belt and the Pretzel Belt but then just talk about the ones Everybody already knows about? Sequel time
@ej_makesvideos 20 күн бұрын
I live inbetween corn and rust belt. 1 mile southwest, fields and nothing else. 1 mile northeast, we have small cities.
@ToniToni-1 24 күн бұрын
Can you do Europe’s belts next?
@danmacarro 16 күн бұрын
I was wondering what was the deal with the Jello thing in fallout as well!
@Pthommie 4 күн бұрын
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.
@josemalave1322 9 күн бұрын
Contrary to popular believe, martial arts are not unusually widespread in the black belt
@jeffersonsharp2292 6 сағат бұрын
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.
@jeffersonsharp2292 6 сағат бұрын
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.
@michaelchristy506 5 сағат бұрын
I’ve lived in the northwest for my whole life and I’ve never ever heard someone say the atheist belt
@mikeh2520 12 күн бұрын
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.
@WhiteLama 25 күн бұрын
I definitely would’ve taken some repetition to hear about some of the stranger belts.
@lukasrentz3238 24 күн бұрын
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.
@tedthetowerdoucette1933 15 күн бұрын
That's interesting. I think we get the words "gird," "girdle" from your German "gurtel."
@TheRavenLord1 26 күн бұрын
And there’s the we are on fire and in the news for something belt in California
@jeffdege4786 23 күн бұрын
Used to be we had the Cotton Belt and the Pellegra Belt.
@88laserbeam 14 күн бұрын
The area in canada stretching from niagra to toronto is known as the golden horse shoe!
@Ryan_hey 6 күн бұрын
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?
@RurouniTenShins 26 күн бұрын
Some people called the Jello belt the “Mormon corridor”… or Morridor for LotR fans.
@weirdlanguageguy 25 күн бұрын
I’m rather partial to Morridor myself
@Chesemiser 25 күн бұрын
As a proud Morridor resident I approve wholeheartedly.
@jeffm9770 26 күн бұрын
I live in the Pretzel Belt and didn't even know it
@michaelbaxter6146 25 күн бұрын
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.....
@jennifercarr7351 3 күн бұрын
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
@derrickj.freeman276 25 күн бұрын
Dude you forgot the Pizza belt from NYC, through NJ, down to Philly.
@dhowe5180 26 күн бұрын
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.
@deanfirnatine7814 25 күн бұрын
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.
@edwardb4730 24 күн бұрын
Yeah I'm an actual atheist from Washington state. I'm massively outnumbered by religious people. This dude is just making stuff up
@johnlabus7359 26 күн бұрын
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.
@Timotimo101 26 күн бұрын
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 :)
@HahnJames 25 күн бұрын
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.
@hezekiahthompson6817 17 күн бұрын
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 ❄️🌨️ 🥶
@alisonlaverty3942 22 күн бұрын
I fully had no idea i live in the rust belt lol
@tsya 7 күн бұрын
9:37 the wheat belt looks like an outline of north & south america bruh
@BMWE90HQ 26 күн бұрын
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.
@wilycoyote1924 26 күн бұрын
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.
@BMWE90HQ 26 күн бұрын
@@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.
@Angelrags5588 23 күн бұрын
I feel like there should also be an East Coast/West Coast belt cause living by the water is much different than the Midwest
@slibertas1996 26 күн бұрын
Bible Belt stretches into rust belt too
@AnonimitySmith 15 күн бұрын
I liked this video. Time to check out the channel
@JeantheSecond-ip7qm 22 күн бұрын
I used to live next to a corn field so “corn belt” tracks.
@trailertrish2587 13 күн бұрын
You can always find some stained glass/broken glass Jello at Mexican grocery and restaurants. Yummy
@highnoon9333 26 күн бұрын
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
@brianquigley1940 24 күн бұрын
To my ears, it sounds like he is from the San Francisco Bay Area or thereabouts.
@tedthetowerdoucette1933 15 күн бұрын
I think he's actually from Portugal. He said so in one of his earlier videos.
@jeremiahcooper376 15 күн бұрын
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.
@barrishautomotive 25 күн бұрын
JELLO really is part of Mormon culture, especially in the Rocky Mountain region.
@jimbongos8541 26 күн бұрын
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.
@UserName-ts3sp 25 күн бұрын
it’s very similar to the frost belt he mentioned.
@tomfields3682 25 күн бұрын
Rust Belt has nothing to do with rusty cars. It's all about manufacturing.
@TracyII77 25 күн бұрын
@@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
@tomfields3682 25 күн бұрын
@@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.
@caseclosed9342 23 күн бұрын
I didn’t know the term “Bible Belt” was coined by Mencken…
@womensrights 16 күн бұрын
I would think Eastern Montana and West North Dakota should probably be in the frost belt.
@missk1697 11 күн бұрын
Black belt and cotton belt are oddly close to each other 💀
@djb1634 21 күн бұрын
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.
@theNunnceler 22 күн бұрын
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
@janahabermann1418 26 күн бұрын
Germany has actually a microships belt in Saxony 😅
@jopalm3649 25 күн бұрын
Weißwurstäquator😉
@WalshTV 25 күн бұрын
6:28
@homosapien7316 2 күн бұрын
The only ones I've heard of were the rust belt and the bible belt
@Thevoiceofsomething 19 күн бұрын
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.
@kirkmorrison6131 26 күн бұрын
You left out the Belt and Suspenders Belt
@imnotyourunicorn91 9 күн бұрын
I always thought Texas was in the sun belt
@theteenagegardener 9 күн бұрын
The coal belt, which stretches from eastern Kentucky into West Virginia and central Pennsylvania.
@theodorereger1933 25 күн бұрын
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.
@markmontani4339 24 күн бұрын
"Zone" comes from a Greek word mening "belt" and also "garter."
@CreatorCade 9 күн бұрын
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.
@justinb864 14 күн бұрын
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
@konnerruggles4147 24 күн бұрын
Everything in NJ is covered in thick dark rust. Everything. How is it not in the rust belt?
@therealsnow 14 күн бұрын
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.
@anillo.english 23 күн бұрын
You forgot about the German belt in northern central USA.
@planetarystargazer 26 күн бұрын
What If Italy 🇮🇹 broke up
@jasonkara7281 26 күн бұрын
I thought it had. After all, there’s Vatican City
@santiagoo.8958 26 күн бұрын
it already happened, go back more than 150 years and you'll see
@Alex-bf3re 14 күн бұрын
Utopia
@user-pu2cj3no5f 8 күн бұрын
I would still call it the spaghetti belt.
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