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.
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Jim Murray
Jim Murray
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David is a young man growing up in a small Southern Bible Belt town in the 1940s.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
Students helped solve the 'Redhead Murders' case from the 1970s by identifying the 'Bible Belt Strangler'
The killer carried the body across the creek, along the mining road, out to the sticks.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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
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
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
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
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Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2025
Students helped solve the 'Redhead Murders' case from the 1970s by identifying the 'Bible Belt Strangler'
The killer carried the body across the creek, along the mining road, out to the sticks.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
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
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
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
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
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“Bible Belt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Bible%20Belt. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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