1. Belt regions of the United States The belt regions of the United States are portions of the country that share certain characteristics. The "belt" terminology was first applied to regions for various crops because they have similar climates as often follow lines of latitude. The usage has expanded to other climatic, economic, and cultural concentrations. !! THESE REGIONS ARE NOT FORMALLY DEFINED; THEY FREQUENTLY OVERLAP AND HAVE VAGUE BORDERS. The terminology is also used outside the U.S. (e.g., India's Hindi Belt).

2. Belt regions of the United States or Jewish Alps, is a colloquial term for the mostly defunct summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York that were a popular vacation spot for New York City Jews from the 1920s up to the 1960s. Borscht Belt

3. Belt regions of the United States Views f the Catskills like this led to the name "Blue Mountains" Today the region is a summer home for many Orthodox Jewish families, primarily from the New York metropolitan area. Borscht Belt A typical family resort in the Catskill Mountains

4. Belt regions of the United States These resorts have been the setting for movies such as Dirty Dancing and some others. Borscht Belt

5. Belt regions of the United States Borscht Belt The name comes from, BORSCHT a soup that is popular in many Central and Eastern European countries and was brought from these regions by Slavic and Jewish immigrants to the United States. The soup is of Ukrainian origin, made with beetroot as the main ingredient giving it a deep reddish-purple color.

6. Borscht Belt humor often is a sort of self-deprecating style. Typical jokes:  "My doctor said I was in terrible shape. I told him, 'I want a second opinion.' He said, 'All right, you're ugly too!'"  "I told my doctor, 'This morning when I got up and saw myself in the mirror, I looked awful! What's wrong with me?' He replied, 'I don't know, but your eyesight is perfect!'"  "My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met." Belt regions of the United States Borscht Belt

7. Belt regions of the United States The Rust Belt / the Manufacturing Belt), northeastern and central northern states where heavy industrialization and some economic stagnation is common the Rust Belt has no exact boundaries as a role of industrial manufacturing changes in local economy in different parts of the region

8. Belt regions of the United States the Snowbelt around the Great Lakes of North America, principally their eastern and southern shores, during winter Snowbelt is the area in the Northeast and northern Midwest

9. Belt regions of the United States The lakes produce snowsqualls and persistently cloudy skies throughout the winter months, as long as air temperatures are colder than water temperatures, or until a lake freezes over. Snowbelt is the area in the Northeast and northern Midwest snow squall over Southern Ontario, Canada Snowsquall hitting Toronto, Canada during rush hour.

10. Belt regions of the United States A Fruit Belt is an area around the North American Great Lakes region where a microclimate provides ideal conditions for fruit growing.

11. Belt regions of the United States Frost Belt is a region of cold weather in the northeastern and north-central United States The region is known for its cold, frost-producing winters and heavy snowfall. includes the Northeastern United States, the Great Lakes Region, and much of the Upper Midwest.

12. Belt regions of the United States The Corn Belt is a region of the Midwestern United States where corn has, since the 1850s, been the predominant crop “Grain Belt”, sometimes Wheat Belt, northern midwestern states where most of North America's grain and soybeans are grown

13. Belt regions of the United States Natural gas was first discovered in Indiana in 1876. Natural gas miners and their drill, 1885 The Indiana Gas Belt is a region of Indiana.

14. Belt regions of the United States The Lead Belt is a district in southeastern Missouri that has a long history of mining for lead The Lead Belt produces about 70% of lead in the U.S. as well as significant amounts of the nation's zinc.

15. Belt regions of the United States The Black Belt is a region of the Southern United States The term originally described the prairies and dark soil of central Alabama and northeast Mississippi

16. It also has long been used to describe a broad agricultural region in the American South characterized by a history of plantation agriculture in the 19th cent., and a high percentage of African Americans in the population. Belt regions of the United States The Black Belt is a region of the Southern United States

17. Belt regions of the United States The Pine Belt / "Piney Woods” is a region in Southeast Mississippi State. The region gets its name from the longleaf pine trees that are abundant in the region.

18. Belt regions of the United States The Stroke Belt, a region in the Southeast that has an unusually high incidence of stroke and other forms of cardiovascular disease High rates of lung cancer are highly correlated with the Stroke Belt.

19. Belt regions of the United States The Cotton Belt is a term applied to a region of the southern United States where cotton was the predominant cash crop from the late 18th century into the 20th century. Cotton is still grown in parts of the region, but agricultural land in the region is now used primarily for crops such as corn, wheat, soybeans, rice, peanuts; Livestock and commercial timber production is also very valuable.

20. Belt regions of the United States Rice Belt, southern states where rice is a major crop

21. Belt regions of the United States Bible Belt is an informal term for a region in the southeastern and south-central United States in which conservative evangelical Protestantism is a significant part of the culture. Bible Belt The earliest known usage of the term "Bible Belt" was by American journalist and social commentator H. L. Mencken in 1924.

22. Belt regions of the United States Sun Belt southern, hot-weather states stretching from coast to coast

23. Belt regions of the United States The Jell-O Belt / the Mormon Corridor is a region of western states with a large Mormon population. Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) settled in the area 1850 – 1890.

24. Belt regions of the United States Unchurched Belt is a region in the far Western United States that has low religious attendance