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« on: August 21, 2007, 08:00:20 PM »
The waxing and waning of the Bible Belt has a HUGE influence on American Politics. But where is it? (Post a map to where it is)



Blue- Not Bible Belt
Red- Border States
Gray- Bible Belt
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« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2007, 08:28:24 PM »


Blue= bible belt
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« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2007, 08:50:26 PM »
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The Bible Belt doesn't cover every religious conservative area.
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2007, 08:57:09 PM »

Thanks Wikipedia!
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« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2007, 09:16:50 PM »
I think factor's and Leif's maps are the closest.
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« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2007, 10:17:10 PM »
Smartass answer: Almost everywhere

Realistic Answer: Basically the map that Lief got from Wikipedia
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« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2007, 11:03:44 PM »
Quote from: thefactor on August 21, 2007, 08:50:26 PM
The Bible Belt doesn't cover every religious conservative area.

Correct. Needs to be realized by anyone who is including the Dakotas. Anyone who would've seriously proposed teaching creationism or having organized prayer at my high school would've been laughed out of town.

And how is Iowa a border state? While it borders the belt in that map, many state do and aren't listed as border states. And the only area of extreme religious conservatism in Iowa is nowhere near Missouri.
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« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2007, 11:16:40 PM »
Thefactor's map is right. I might include West Virginia; it's sort of borderline.
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« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2007, 11:27:47 PM »
Quote from: Verily on August 21, 2007, 11:16:40 PM
Thefactor's map is right. I might include West Virginia; it's sort of borderline.

According to Al, the religious right is not popular in WV and as virtually no influence.
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« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2007, 12:21:50 AM »

UTAH!  That's Mormon country - Bible Belt to me has always referred to Southern Baptist area.
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« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2007, 09:25:24 AM »
One answer (and quite a cheap one at that) would be this o/c:
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« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2007, 11:04:55 AM »


That's my guess of states in the Bible Belt
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« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2007, 12:08:35 PM »
Quote from: Governor, Vice-Chair, & Queen Mum Inks.LWC on August 22, 2007, 12:21:50 AM
UTAH!  That's Mormon country - Bible Belt to me has always referred to Southern Baptist area.

Another reason why no part of the Midwest is the Bible Belt.
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« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2007, 12:37:11 PM »
Quote from: EVEN THE COP GETS IN TROUBLE on August 22, 2007, 12:08:35 PM
Quote from: Governor, Vice-Chair, & Queen Mum Inks.LWC on August 22, 2007, 12:21:50 AM
UTAH!  That's Mormon country - Bible Belt to me has always referred to Southern Baptist area.

Another reason why no part of the Midwest is the Bible Belt.

Parts of the Midwest, Mo, Southern IL and IN would be.
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« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2007, 01:00:32 PM »
Quote from: J. J. on August 22, 2007, 12:37:11 PM
Quote from: EVEN THE COP GETS IN TROUBLE on August 22, 2007, 12:08:35 PM
Quote from: Governor, Vice-Chair, & Queen Mum Inks.LWC on August 22, 2007, 12:21:50 AM
UTAH!  That's Mormon country - Bible Belt to me has always referred to Southern Baptist area.

Another reason why no part of the Midwest is the Bible Belt.

Parts of the Midwest, Mo, Southern IL and IN would be.

Well I'm talking about the upper Midwest, places like the Dakotas and Nebraska. See the first post and Hashemite's map for this.
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« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2007, 05:01:38 PM »
Lief's map is what I believe to be correct.  If you say Bible Belt is just predominantly Southern Baptist, you would have to take out the extreme northwest corner of Oklahoma.  Woods County (Alva) is predominantly Methodist/Wesleyan.
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« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2007, 06:34:32 PM »

This map is probably the most accurate. North Florida is in the Bible belt, but south florida definately isn't. Utah and Idaho aren't in the bible belt because they tend to be Mormon, and "Bible Belt" refers to the area where conservative protestant christianity is culturally and politically dominant.
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« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2007, 06:36:08 PM »
Does it seriously extend into Kansas and New Mexico?
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« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2007, 07:07:17 PM »

Yes! I'm not in it.

And, yeah that's pretty much right.
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« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2007, 07:23:00 PM »
Look at the parts of the country most often hit by hurricanes and the largest areas of swampy lowlands(as in would get flooded out) then compare it to the bible belt. That probably says alot how God feels about the people in the bible belt. She's obviously not pleased with fundies taking up the land.
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« Reply #20 on: August 22, 2007, 09:55:18 PM »
Quote from: Jomy Marquis Shin on August 22, 2007, 06:36:08 PM
Does it seriously extend into Kansas and New Mexico?

see Al's map.
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« Reply #21 on: August 23, 2007, 08:47:31 AM »
Quote from: Jomy Marquis Shin on August 22, 2007, 06:36:08 PM
Does it seriously extend into Kansas and New Mexico?

Having lived only 14 miles south of the Kansas State Line for six years, I can attest that the "Bible Belt" extends ever so slightly into Kansas, but not quite up to the line from Wichita to Pratt to Dodge City to Garden City (US Hwy 400).  It probably extends up toward Wellington to Medicine Lodge (US Hwy 160 or 166).

It probably extends farther into Kansas than it does into New Mexico, but not by much, and I can't really attest to New Mexico since I have never lived in extreme western Texas.
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« Reply #22 on: August 23, 2007, 10:35:39 AM »
Quote from: Jomy Marquis Shin on August 22, 2007, 06:36:08 PM
Does it seriously extend into Kansas and New Mexico?

Yes, the baptists and Southern settlers in East Kansas and the "Little Texas" region of New Mexico both have more in common with states to their south and east than with the rest of the population of those states.
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« Reply #23 on: August 24, 2007, 08:19:34 AM »
Northern Indiana is known as the Bible belt as well.   
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