Bible Belt

noun

: an area chiefly in the southern U.S. whose inhabitants are believed to hold uncritical allegiance to the literal accuracy of the Bible

broadly : an area characterized by ardent religious fundamentalism

Bible Belter noun

… he was positively apoplectic over the notion of his editorial policy being dictated by a handful of Bible Belters.

—Jim Murray

Examples of Bible Belt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But Compulsion Games couldn’t be farther from the Deep South — Montreal is more European chic than Bible Belt — and the team was incredibly anxious about getting the setting just right. —Alyssa Mercante, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024

Jeff Iorg, the longtime president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s only seminary outside of the denomination’s historic Bible Belt heartland, is the incoming president and CEO of the denomination’s Executive Committee. —Peter Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2024

White Christian nationalists created an unlivable hellscape for their Black neighbors, one that remains visible in Bible Belt communities today. —William Horne / Made By History, TIME, 17 Oct. 2024

Grant, a North Carolina native, dressed in drag for the first time in 2019, and released her first album under her new identity, Bible Belt Baby, in 2022. —Spin Contributor, SPIN, 10 Oct. 2024

Brazil’s Bible Belt The energized conservative vote helped Bolsonaro compensate, at least in part, for several headwinds working against his reelection bid. —Brian Winter, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2022

Riding a successful summer, Blake decided to submit Bible Belt Baby for consideration for Best Contemporary Christian Album at this year’s Grammy Awards. —Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023

Released in October via Glam & Glory Records on her debut studio album Bible Belt Baby, the cut debuts at No. 20 on the Christian Digital Song Sales chart. —Xander Zellner, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2023

In 2016, Arkansas became the first Bible Belt state to approve medical marijuana, with voters approving a legalization measure. —Andrew Demillo, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for Bible Belt

• celt
• dealt
• dwelt
• felt
• knelt
• melt
• pelt
• smelt
• spelt
• veldt
• welt
• heartfelt