*Do you know any additional "Belts" in the US, or in other countries?*

@user-ul8po5cj1r

19 күн бұрын

In Europe its "bananas" 😅. m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZY6d0bSeicnPorw.html

@indigoguy12

18 күн бұрын

Alligator Belt. It’s only in Florida and south Alabama.

@jaketheauroran

18 күн бұрын

Tight belt - aka all Americans

@ericstuen2717

18 күн бұрын

Timber belt - places in Washington, Oregon, & Idaho where logging is common.

@schnarg_da_cigsmoker_25

18 күн бұрын

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

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

19 күн бұрын

Okay! I'll make a part two with the ones I left out :)

@lukasrentz3238

17 күн бұрын

Especially Pretzel Belt picked my Interest. As well as the Borschscht Belt.

@chris1141987

17 күн бұрын

I've never heard of a pretzel belt. Where is that!

@mrmadmaxalot

7 күн бұрын

Where is the pretzel belt? Is it as amazing as it sounds? Asking for a friend who likes pretzels too much.

@timestorm5687

5 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

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

19 күн бұрын

What can I say, we like jello

@colliwer

19 күн бұрын

If you knew more Mormons it would make perfect sense, trust me

@Twinkiepower420

19 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

19 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

18 күн бұрын

@@The_Forgettable1 I haven't had it in decades, you are proof of the Jello Belt 🙂

Cant belive you didnt cover the borscht and pretzel belt

@mardiffv.8775

18 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?

I've lived in Colorado for 41 years and I've never heard of the jello-belt

@augustuscaesar8287

19 күн бұрын

What? Have you been living under a rock? Nah, jk. I've never heard it either.

@colliwer

19 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

19 күн бұрын

Well, it barely even goes through Colorado so that’s not that surprising

@IdiotOwO-ye8ti

19 күн бұрын

How have you never heard of The jello belt

@Pugetwitch

19 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.

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

17 күн бұрын

@@mudgetheexpendable Bill Cosby knows

@monkeydank7842

3 күн бұрын

Prohibition is useless.

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

18 күн бұрын

Is it? or is that just a coincidence?

@ronaldpippen8164

18 күн бұрын

​@@mapache-ehcapam Come to the coastal plains region of North Carolina and find out.

@ManicMercurianAstrology

18 күн бұрын

I was thinking that too! And no its not a coincidence

@clevelandwest9276

18 күн бұрын

And thats also the area where the most blacks live in the u.s

@themanifestorsmind

16 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.

🌪"TORNADO BELT" was not mentioned🌪

@strifera

19 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

19 күн бұрын

get over it

@LawrenceEvers

18 күн бұрын

I’ve always heard it called tornado alley

@slibertas1996

18 күн бұрын

@@crosswordboss yep. It’s tornado alley

@monamartin9915

17 күн бұрын

Tornado Belt or Tornado Alley deserve it “RESPECT.”

America: i'm wearing all the belts!!

@kckc4955

19 күн бұрын

We are the Joey of countries 😊

@TheU.S.

19 күн бұрын

reminds me of Obama putting an award around Obama’s neck

@HughGenvoenni

17 күн бұрын

We wear all the belts…yet we still can’t keep our pants up…. America 2024 in a nutshell 😆

@crazymusicchick

16 күн бұрын

Lol my mum grew up in the wheat belt in Australia

@slightlyaboveaveragebutaverage

2 күн бұрын

America looking like a final fantasy character

The lack of inclusion of the borscht belt was devastating.

Im in Ulster County & Im bummed our little two county Borscht Belt wasn't detailed.

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

19 күн бұрын

You never heard "Rust Belt" to describe Midwest?

@diegogalvan1810

19 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

19 күн бұрын

Me personally, I’ve only regularly heard of the Rust Belt, Bible Belt and the Sun Belt

@machjiffy4710

19 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

18 күн бұрын

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."

I believe this needs to be a series since there’s belts I’ve never heard of

Please do part 2 where you cover the belts you didn’t cover here. I demand it

@anniegerlach2563

3 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

1:33 I find the placement of the FRUIT belt offensive and triggering...

@mfresh11

17 күн бұрын

@@TheAlchaemist Definitely fruity

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

17 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

17 күн бұрын

Yeah Funeral Potato belt would've made way more sense 😂

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

13 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

12 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.

Duluth being outside of the rust belt is insane

@tomfields3682

18 күн бұрын

It's a shipping town, never had much manufacturing to speak of.

@mfresh11

17 күн бұрын

@@Quantum-yz9fc The rust only makes its way there through the aquifers, so technically it doesn’t count

the fallout jello is just because it's also stereotyped as 1950s

@General.Knowledge

19 күн бұрын

Ah okay! Thanks for the clarification

@jbrwokyruges

17 күн бұрын

Definitely! I mean the in 50s to 60s people were even making vegetable & seafood jello molds with unflavored gelatin. *shudder*

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.

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.goodfellas226

17 күн бұрын

Eat the soil?

@kenaikuskokwim9694

16 күн бұрын

@@jimc.goodfellas226 Yes. It's called geophagy. There are KZread videos about it. Not just any soil, though. It has to be good.

@seikoellis17

15 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

You forgot the Money Belt along 95 from DC/Richmond to Boston/Portland ME

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 🇳🇵

Lake Huron: Am I nothing to you?

Cincinnati in three: Bible, Rust (which I disagree with) and Corn. What a place.

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? 😂

Nice video, it's been a while since I saw your video

@General.Knowledge

19 күн бұрын

Welcome back!

The black belt and sun belt should cover all of eastern North Carolina.

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.

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 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

The Black Belt also included Maryland

@mfresh11

17 күн бұрын

@@jbenjamin59 Mare-Land. Ball-MOE

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

Damn I really wanted to know about the "Borscht Belt"

@blackbarnz

8 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

2 күн бұрын

Me too

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

How ya gonna mention the Banana Belt and the Pretzel Belt but then just talk about the ones Everybody already knows about? Sequel time

I have been referring to the Bible Belt as the "Bubba Belt" ever since I lived there for 20 years.

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

18 күн бұрын

it’s very similar to the frost belt he mentioned.

@tomfields3682

18 күн бұрын

Rust Belt has nothing to do with rusty cars. It's all about manufacturing.

@TracyII77

18 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

18 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.

Maybe a turquoise belt in Arizona, or since it's very small, you could call it a "buckle".

Proud sun belt resident here! Thanks for the video

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.

Can you do Europe’s belts next?

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

11 күн бұрын

Yeah just Cascadia, although now I want a Cascadia Belt.

And there’s the we are on fire and in the news for something belt in California

I was wondering what was the deal with the Jello thing in fallout as well!

i would like to hear about the other belts in the list

I fully had no idea i live in the rust belt lol

I definitely would’ve taken some repetition to hear about some of the stranger belts.

The area in canada stretching from niagra to toronto is known as the golden horse shoe!

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.

A small correction: Mormon is not the correct way to refer to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Church of Jesus Christ). It is a reference to the Book of Mormon (a book of scripture in the Latter-day Saint canon) and was a nickname given by enemies of the Church during its early history. Calling members of the Church of Jesus Christ "Mormons" is like calling Muslims "Qur'anites" or Jews Torahs. I would also point out that Salt Lake City has a relatively low Latter-day Saint population compared to other parts of the state, so the high jello consumption is almost certainly a regional phenomenon and not a religious one.

Dude you forgot the Pizza belt from NYC, through NJ, down to Philly.

I live in the Pretzel Belt and didn't even know it

Used to be we had the Cotton Belt and the Pellegra Belt.

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

17 күн бұрын

To my ears, it sounds like he is from the San Francisco Bay Area or thereabouts.

@tedthetowerdoucette1933

8 күн бұрын

I think he's actually from Portugal. He said so in one of his earlier videos.

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.....

Black belt and cotton belt are oddly close to each other 💀

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

8 күн бұрын

That's interesting. I think we get the words "gird," "girdle" from your German "gurtel."

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 ❄️🌨️ 🥶

You can always find some stained glass/broken glass Jello at Mexican grocery and restaurants. Yummy

I feel like there should also be an East Coast/West Coast belt cause living by the water is much different than the Midwest

Bible Belt stretches into rust belt too

Some people called the Jello belt the “Mormon corridor”… or Morridor for LotR fans.

@weirdlanguageguy

18 күн бұрын

I’m rather partial to Morridor myself

@Chesemiser

17 күн бұрын

As a proud Morridor resident I approve wholeheartedly.

I used to live next to a corn field so “corn belt” tracks.

JELLO really is part of Mormon culture, especially in the Rocky Mountain region.

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.

I would think Eastern Montana and West North Dakota should probably be in the frost belt.

9:37 the wheat belt looks like an outline of north & south america bruh

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

19 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

19 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.

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.

Contrary to popular believe, martial arts are not unusually widespread in the black belt

I didn’t know the term “Bible Belt” was coined by Mencken…

I liked this video. Time to check out the channel

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.

Ah come on. You have the frost belt and snow belt, but what about the Salt Belt? *cough* looking at you, WVDOH and MDSHA, every freakin winter!

The coal belt, which stretches from eastern Kentucky into West Virginia and central Pennsylvania.

You left out the Belt and Suspenders 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.

@Timotimo101

18 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 :)

Germany has actually a microships belt in Saxony 😅

@jopalm3649

18 күн бұрын

Weißwurstäquator😉

Can’t believe he forgot the chip belt

I always thought Texas was in the sun belt

What If Italy 🇮🇹 broke up

@jasonkara7281

19 күн бұрын

I thought it had. After all, there’s Vatican City

@santiagoo.8958

19 күн бұрын

it already happened, go back more than 150 years and you'll see

@Alex-bf3re

7 күн бұрын

Utopia

@user-pu2cj3no5f

Күн бұрын

I would still call it the spaghetti belt.

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

Fun fact: Everyone knows kung fu in the black belt

nice

For sure thought “jell-o belt” would be associated with old people lol

Is there a maple 🍁 syrup belt? Or a dairy belt?

"Zone" comes from a Greek word mening "belt" and also "garter."

America has as many belts as a Guilty Gear character

@TheNobleFive

19 күн бұрын

Ha

You forgot about the German belt in northern central USA.

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.

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

Longtime Oregon resident, so that’s why I feel like religion is really small here

YES!

Everything in NJ is covered in thick dark rust. Everything. How is it not in the rust belt?

Hmm. Interesting 🤔

Sunbelt?