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What about the liberal belt? --<span style="margin-top: -3px;">&nbsp;[[Image:50 star flag.png|12px]]</span><span style="position:relative; overflow:hidden; width:88px; height:15px; z-index:2;"> [[User:Deborah]] [[Special:Contributions/Deborah|<font color="gray">(contributions)</font>]] [[User_talk:Deborah|<font color="darkslategray">(talk)</font>]]</span> 23:03, 22 April 2008 (EDT)
 
What about the liberal belt? --<span style="margin-top: -3px;">&nbsp;[[Image:50 star flag.png|12px]]</span><span style="position:relative; overflow:hidden; width:88px; height:15px; z-index:2;"> [[User:Deborah]] [[Special:Contributions/Deborah|<font color="gray">(contributions)</font>]] [[User_talk:Deborah|<font color="darkslategray">(talk)</font>]]</span> 23:03, 22 April 2008 (EDT)
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== Bible Belt Satistics ==
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== Bible Belt Statistics ==
    
The Bible Belt lands in the U.S are also known as the 'obesity belt, divorce belt, STD belt, homicide belt, poverty belt, crime belt,
 
The Bible Belt lands in the U.S are also known as the 'obesity belt, divorce belt, STD belt, homicide belt, poverty belt, crime belt,
premarital births belt', teenage pregnacy belt',sometimes known as the 'abortion belt.'
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premarital births belt', teenage pregnancy belt',sometimes known as the 'abortion belt.'
 
This means the crime and immorality rate in those 'Bible belt' land are above U.S average and are statistically much higher than
 
This means the crime and immorality rate in those 'Bible belt' land are above U.S average and are statistically much higher than
 
the nonreligious(or liberal) states.
 
the nonreligious(or liberal) states.
 
For example Louisiana is one of the most religious states in the U.S with about %90 of them say that religion is important.
 
For example Louisiana is one of the most religious states in the U.S with about %90 of them say that religion is important.
 
Louisiana however has the highest homicide rate and incarceration rate in the U.S
 
Louisiana however has the highest homicide rate and incarceration rate in the U.S
Louisiana has the homicide rate of 10.8 per 100,000 people and while the more nonreligious(and liberal)state, New Hampshire has a homicide rate of only 0.9 per 100,000 people.
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Louisiana has the homicide rate of 10.8 per 100,000 people and while the more nonreligious(and liberal)state, New Hampshire has a homicide rate of only 0.9 per 100,000 people.--[[User:Coolguy|Coolguy]]|[[User talk:Coolguy|talk]]
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:Yes, Louisiana has a high homicide rate, but so do New Mexico and Maryland, outside the belt; New Hampshire has a low homicide rate, but so does Iowa, inside the belt.<ref>https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality/homicide.htm</ref>  Also, I've never heard any of those other belt terms, only "Bible belt" and "black belt."--[[User:Abcqwe|Abcqwe]] ([[User talk:Abcqwe|talk]]) 19:03, 5 May 2017 (EDT)
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