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Bible Belt en · PROPN

Etymology

First used by American journalist H. L. Mencken, who wrote in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1924 that "the old game, I suspect, is beginning to play out in the Bible Belt."

Meanings

1. An area where socially conservative Protestant Christianity is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Bible Belt.
2. (in particular) An area in the southeastern United States where Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive and dominant part of the culture.

Forms

Coordinates

Quran Belt · cow belt · Rust Belt · Borscht Belt · Corn Belt

Deriveds

Bible Belter

Translations (21)

ru Библе́йский по́яс (area in the United States) · sv bibelbälte (area in the United States) · fi raamattuvyöhyke (area in the United States) · cmn 聖經帶 /圣经带 (area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant) · pl pas biblijny (area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant) · cmn 聖經帶 /圣经带 (area in the United States) · sv bibelbälte (area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant) · nl Biblebelt (area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant) · nl Bijbelgordel (area in the United States) · da bibelbælte (area in the United States) · es Cinturón de la Biblia (area in the United States) · pl pas biblijny (area in the United States) · nl Bijbelgordel (area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant) · es Cinturón de la Biblia (area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant) · da bibelbælte (area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant) · mn Библийн бүс (area in the United States) · ca Cinturó de la Bíblia (area in the United States) · nl refoband (area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant) · nl Bible Belt (area in the United States) · ru Библе́йский по́яс (area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant) · fi raamattuvyöhyke (area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant)

wikipedia: H. L. Mencken