Bible Belt

Meaning

Proper Noun

• An area where socially conservative Protestant Christianity is a pervasive or dominant part of the culture.
• area in the southeastern USA (country) where Evangelical Protestantism is a pervasive and dominant part of the culture.

Origin

• First used by American journalist H. L. Mencken, who wrote in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1924 that "the old game, I suspect, is beginning to play out in the Bible Belt."