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| | What about the liberal belt? --<span style="margin-top: -3px;"> [[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;"> [[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 == | + | == Bible Belt Statistics == |
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| | 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.' | + | 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. | + | 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]] |
| | + | :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) |