Proxima Centauri

On this web site I keep reading about the, 'Bible Belt' or the 'buckel of the, Bible Belt'. I'm British. I would like to know where the Bible Belt is and which states are most affected.
When giving advice in the 'Secular Lifestlyle and Support' forum we need to know which are the liberal parts of the United States and which are the intolerant parts of the United States.
A mqp would be helpful.

fando

Check this link out:

http://everything2.net/index.pl?node=Bible%20Belt

Off the top of my head, the states most affected are: North Carolina, South Caroline, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas

Spaz

Yeah, I live in VA and it's not that bad here, they don't take control of schools or anything, but you still see those crazy people with jesus shirts and have the religious groups in schools and once they were at the flag pole singing jesus music, which I'm sure is in a lot of places and I don't care as long as they do it on their own.

Viti

I live in the West...we have a more diverse population on the whole than where my parents live...Alabama, smack in the Bible Belt. They are transplants from the West, and had a hard time adjusting. Dad just "doesn't get" religion or spirituality at all, so just is sort of bemused by the fundies...Mom gets PISSED when there is even a hint of a breach in the wall separating church and state or sees any sign that somebody's civil liberties are being violated...so spends a lot of time writing to her congresspeople and the President telling them they are idiots assholes and warmongers.

Traditionally the Bible Belt is the Southern States but I also include the Plains states as well. On the map, the pink areas and yellow areas and throw in Texas and Oklahoma as well.

Some states are hard to label...South Florida for instance is not very fundie, but the florida panhandle is.

http://wilmette.nttc.org/mckenzie/re...regionhome.htm

Biff the unclean

"Bible belt" is the current nick name for the states whose old nick name "the Slave States" is no longer PC

Infidelettante

Do please put Alabama on that list. You can't buy a dildo here you know. Rather strange concidering all the other stuff the fundies try to shove up your ass.

Giorgia

Unfortunately, while they are geographically well away from the traditional "bible-belt" states, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico are firmly represented by xian conservatives in both houses of Congress, so, politically speaking, outside Washington, Oregon and California, the West is NOT liberal in its actions.

These states individually don't have much clout; however, given the two-Senators per state rule and the way the electoral college assures that lower-population states don't get out-muscled in the presidential election, the republican majorities in these states wind up with disproportionate representation in national politics. This is particularly apparent any time issues such as the protection of free speech, abortion rights, ANWR, forests, wolves, bears, clean water, etc. etc. arise.

lpetrich

And one has to wonder how many of the politicians of the less-populated states are essentially carpetbaggers. Dick Cheney had been a senator from Wyoming, yet he had also been CEO of Halliburton, a Texas-based company.

Grad Student Humanist

You forgot Mississippi as well.

Viti

I agree, though California legislates people's personal choices and babysits their citizens too much for my taste. I meant the West is more diverse in the religions represented. Within 2 miles of my house is a Baha'i Temple, a Synogogue, several Christian churches including Mormon and Catholic, a Zen Temple, a UU congreagtion and a Church of Scientology just off the top of my head. I also regularly run into agnostics and generally non-religious people. In Alabama, my folks are hard pressed to find a non-Baptist.