Bible Belt
See also: Bible belt
English
Alternative forms
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."[1]
Proper noun
- An area where socially conservative Protestant Christianity is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture.
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Bible Belt.
- (in particular) An area in the south-eastern United States where Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive and dominant part of the culture.
Translations
area where conservative Protestant Christianity is dominant
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area in the United States
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See also
References
- Fred R. Shapiro (editor), Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press, 2006, →ISBN
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