How Did The Belts Of The USA Get Their Names? 

What belt are you watching from?

I know "belt" isn't in its name, but I think Tornado Alley should count.

Just a heads up Americans divide their fruit preserves into categories. You've got Jelly which is made with just the juices from the fruit and you've got Jam which is made with the juice and flesh of the fruit. Then you got marmelade and just plain preserves. And while jell-o is a catch all much like kleenex for gelatin desserts you can hear gelatin being used aswell.

Forgot the coal belt, Eastern Kentucky through West Virginia, southwest Virginia, and central Pennsylvania

It seems worth mentioning that: 1) Jell-O is a brand name. The generalized term would be (sweetened/flavoured) gelatin. 2) Jelly, jam, and preserves are three different types of processed fruit spreads in the US.

in the USA Jelly is made from only juices Jam is made with parts of fruit remaining in it. gelatin is the general term for Jell-o the brand name of a product

I live in the Bible belt, can confirm a church on every corner.

Top 3 countries on Earth (in 2019) By land area 1: Russia 2: Canada 3: China or USA (Tied) By population 1: China 2: India 3: USA By GDP 1: USA 2: China 3: Japan Wow. All that Anime/Manga and videogames have worked in Japan's favour.

"The exact reason strokes are more present here isn't exactly known" *Stares in Paula Deen*

12:23 it's because of the food we eat down here. Southern food/ Soul food isn't really the healthiest. But it's the most delicious!

Please somebody donate $1000 so that we can see the states video!

Stroke Belt is also the Waffle House Belt. Seriously look it up the location of Waffle Houses and the highest stroke and heart attacks.

I'm from the Frost Belt! And yes the winters can get brutal, especially when there's a polar vortex. Although summer can be quite nice, sometimes. Usually it’s too hot to do things outside unless you have access to a pool.

I live in the Rust Belt! It's so depressing here! there's nothing fun here to do!

I think that bible belt and rust belt are definitely the most common; the rest are quite obscure.

As an American, I learned the difference between Jam and Jelly was that Jam had remaining fruit flesh in the jar, while Jelly was filtered Jam or otherwise clear jam. Grew up in Florida so I don't speak for all the people of America, but I thought I'd contribute.

Quick tip: In American speak South = South East and Midwest = Northern Mid-East. The confusing terms reflect a time when our country hadn't yet been settled from coast to coast.

Jell-O is a popular brand of gelatin in the US that's become synonymous with the food itself, but outside of that we call it gelatin.

The word "belt" has lost all meaning to me now.

We have our own bible belt in the Netherlands

3:01... I just chuckle every time you make a pro-wrestling reference. Thumbs up to that! lol!

Here in the Netherlands the only belt we really talk about us our own version of the bible-belt (bijbelbelt in Dutch) that runs through the country from Zeeland in the southwest through the middle of the country in Utrecht and Gelderland to the border with Germany where Overijssel an Drenthe meet. It is to be noticed that this belt specificly refers to the places were people are still higly religious compaired to the rest of the country, and follow mostly protestant/reformed branched of christianity. The belt does not include the southern provinces of Noord-Brabant and Limburg, due to this area being more catholic than protestant. Eventhough the belt is still inportant today, it is becomming less so, as a few years back it was announced that for the first time in history a majority of Dutch citizens are now non-religious.

I’m from the “unchurched belt.” I’ve never heard that term before but it doesn’t surprise me.

Can you make a video about the name Caledonia? I know of three ,the old name of Scotland,new Caledonia, and a Small region in the island of Crete, what is the etymology,and how do they connect?

Jelly and jam are different, and Jell-O is a brand of gelatin product. Someone who specializes in names like you should know this.

I'm interested in the cowgirl's belts tbh

Jello jam and jelly are all three different things in the US. Our Jello is your gelatin or jelly, our jam is your marmalade and kept in a jar, and our jelly is like your jam but more artificially flavored and come in squeeze bottles.

I had thought "belt" was a form of "veldt" 11:02 American jelly ≠ british jam. American jelly is fruit juice thickened with pectin, it more resembles Jello, but is more substantial. American jam is whole fruit jammed (nyuk nyuk) through a food mill, and thickened with pectin. Preserves is like jam, but with larger chunks, and marmalade is universal. the picture you used there looks more like preserves to me.

Would Tornado Alley be considered a belt due to weather?

Jelly and jam are two separate things here. What you pictured would be jam here.

9:12 Minnesota: *_Am I a joke to you?_*

One small detail about the "snow belt" it is more accurately named "the snow belts" as it more refers to the several smaller areas on the lee-ward side of the great lakes that receive the heavier lake-effect snow, rather than one large snowy area.

I am originally from Michigan but currently live in Texas. Even being a northerner I had always heard of the Bible Belt but never heard of these other "belts" around the country. Very eye-opening! I am doing a project to unearth the origin of the term Bible Belt. I'd like to refer back to this belt as it compares to other parts of the country with their own nicknames.👌

Jelly and jam are different. Jam is made from fruit and has fruit pieces in it, and you spread it about your toast and enjoy it. Jelly is made from fruit juice and has no fruit pieces in it. It's clear and smooth and more stiff than jam. You also spread is on toast and enjoy it. Neither have any relation to Jell-O, which doesn't spread.

I'm watching from the Jell-o belt, and your explanation of the region seems spot-on to me. And people here often refer to all brands of gelatin desserts as "jello," just as they often refer to all tissue paper as "kleenexes."

Watching from the Rain Belt! (Basically Cascadia)

Watching this from the California belt because the state's so big it deserves its own.

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Great video! As a neuro nurse from the Stroke Belt thank you for including it.

I'm in the snow belt. But also the Irish belt. It extends from Maine to New York. And it denotes the area most Irish immagrants landed

“Lovely” Sunshine. If you’re wondering about the stroke belt, the heat mixed with the humidity is a big factor I’m pretty sure

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems!

Im supporting this channel, even turned on the bell, every video is so interesting keep it up :)

11:04 FYI It's only Jelly if it's seedless, it's Jam if it has seeds

As a catholic from the Unchurched belt, I can confirm that many people here are religious, but just don’t feel like going to church.

We don’t call your jam jelly. We have moth jelly and jam. And preserves. Each one just gets thicker with more chunks in it.

No matter how much I watch Name Explain, I will always see drawn-Patrick's goatee as his mouth.

A bit of context of for a couple of the belts that you mentioned: 1. One defining feature of the Bible Belt is that a plurality of its residents are members of the evangelical Southern Baptist community, unlike most other parts of the country, where a plurality of residents practice Catholicism (I assume the reason for this is that, while Protestants as a whole may outnumber Catholics in many of those parts, no single Protestant denomination predominates). The only other major exceptions, I think, are the Jell-O belt (a term I had never heard of until this video), where LDS is the predominant religion, and parts of the Upper Midwest, where Lutheranism predominates. 2. The Borscht Belt came into existence because Jews were once barred from attending many mainstream summer camps and resorts for families. In response to these restrictive laws, a set of resorts that catered specifically to the Jewish population popped up in upstate New York, conveniently located near the NY Metropolitan Area with its large Jewish community. Once civil rights laws were enacted that made it illegal for businesses to openly discriminate on the basis of ethnicity or religion, the Jewish-friendly resorts of the Borscht Belt became no longer necessary as Jews could now vacation with their gentile colleagues and companions. The most famous legacy of the Borscht Belt is in the area of comedy, as stand up comedy was one of the main sources of entertainment at these resorts and many famous comics of the mid-20th Century got their start playing what was known as the Borscht Belt Circuit.

Some other "belts" in the US aren't traditionally belts but are nonetheless important to mention: Tornado Alley (area of US with a high incidence of tornado formation), Appalachia/Piedmont (a belt-shaped region of the US with a similar culture), each of the three main coasts, and the Arizona Sun Corridor (basically the Phoenix-Tucson metro).

You could do a video on British counties in the same style as the one on the US states

I live in Massachusetts so I’m part of the frost belt. At least summers are mostly nice when they’re not too hot.

I love your videos They are rabbit holes much of what RU-vid is itself

The South of Norway is the "Bible Belt".

YOU WILL ADORE THE HISTORY OF THE EGGPLANT! I SWEAR, GET ON THAT!

Watching from the buckle of the Bible Belt. Great vid!

Fun fact - tripoint between beer, vodka and wine belts is in Poland. And it's quite aligned with how the borders were before 1st world war. I'm from the beer belt if you're curious.

In Nigeria.. We have the middle belt. As they are not part of The Northeast The Northwest Southeast Southwest South-south regions

Watching from the Vodka belt! 0:11 The day I see metric numbers alongside the imperial ones in future videos, I'll become a Patreon right away. :)

good stuff guv

Maybe this is something for you to explore but the broader idea of Jam in the US is broken up into Jelly, Jam, and Preserves which are distinguished by the pulp. A jelly has no pulp whatsoever, jam has pulp but is spreadable, and a preserve is more or less jam that isn't filtered. I don't believe Jelly would be considered a wrong way to refer to jello, but most Americans associate it more with something like peanut butter and jelly then gelatin snacks, so it would confuse us on the same way using gay as a term for being happy throws many people off.

Europe has a beer belt? So do I. It holds up my beer gut.

i always thought that they were called belts because of the highways that ran through them btw from the salt belt

I've never heard of the Jell-O Belt, though I apparently live on its South end. (Jell-O is a brand name that became a word in itself, like how asking for a Kleenex means you want a paper facial tissue even if the box is a generic store label.)

We have a area in VA and the Carolinas referred by Foresters as a pine belt because of the number of pine plantations harvested for paper and lumber.

Watching from the Sunbelt. And what do you call what we call jam?

*talks about frost belt* *uses picture from city that can’t handle winters* Still an awesome video though keep it up!!

I'm in the heat death belt, aka Arizona where our tempetures hit over 125 Fahrenheit and we cook eggs on the sidewalk

According to this vid, I’m viewing from the Bible, Cotton, Sun, and Stroke Belts. I could take a 30 min drive to enter the Black Belt.

Pine belt is in Missouri *Angry Mainer Noises*

I'm from the Bible and Stroke Belts. Which is ironic, seeing that I'm a Shinto/Buddhist.

The bible belt is actually a funny one. See, I was in Windsor, Ontario buying some Cuban cigars, and the Lebanese Canadian guy at the cigar shop asked about my funny accent. Told him I had moved to Michigan for a job, but I was from Alabama, which is in what we call the "Bible Belt" ... where a lot of people talk with a similar accent. Guy found the name of the region amusing.

I live in Middle Tennessee now (Sunbelt, Bible Belt) but I used to live in Texas. There is an ecoregion of Texas called the Post-Oak Belt that is a transition zone between the prairies of Central Texas and the forests of East Texas. The most substantial towns in the Post-Oak Belt are College Station and Tyler.

I just found a really cool pattern in groups of words what they refer to in the uk/us (I’m from the states but have lived in the uk for three years) So jel-o and jelly are the same thing but jelly does not refer to jam but more process form of jam you can’t find in the UK. (Jam US is Jam UK) I also think of the example of apple juice, cider, and hard cider. Where cider in the uk refers to hard cider in the us and cider in the us refers to apple juice in the uk but what Americans call apple juice (a filtered and a slightly dehydrated from of apple juice) does not exist in the uk.

Yeah, we're so "lucky" to have all that sun in the Sun Belt. Arizona longs for rain.

Norway is not really in the vodka belt. We are in the "does it contain any alcohol yes please" belt.

I'm from the snow belt and I regularly trudge through knee deep or higher snow, and sometimes have to shovel my driveway three times a day to keep it clear.

Watching from the Tornado Belt, aka Tornado Alley.

Name explain : I think of Germany and Belgium when I hear beer The Netherlands: am I a joke to you

Your Jello Belt map needs to go a little bit into the west of Idaho, to get Boise in the map. I'm watching from the said belt.

I live deep deep in the heartland of corn land but very close to the coast of the fruit belt and every time I travel and line the coasts we pass so many fruit farms they look really nice

I wonder if the US will someday be divided into the left-wing belt and the right-wing belt.

Honestly as an Ohioan we kinda find it offensive to be called the rust belt and that name is only used outside the region.

Fun fact, the snow belt gets so much snow for two (main) reasons: of course, it is mostly the northern part of the frost belt, but we also get a lot more precipitation in general because of the Great Lakes (which I've heard called the "lake effect" but I'm not sure if that's a real, formalized term). I'm from Pittsburgh, so I can attest that it actually reaches a fair bit further than you might think - we're close to the edge of it though because of the Allegheny and Appalachian Mountains.

Sunbelt here! I also wonder if we’re growing an “Aerospace belt”- it feels like there’s a lot of companies devoted to airplanes and even space travel in California, Texas, Florida, and Washington (maybe it’s more of a U)

Origin behind the word Jet (day 3)

I'm from the tornado belt.

about the jelly confusion, in america we call the sweetened fruit goop either jelly, jam, or preserves depending on the size/amount of fruit chunks, but can also be used interchangeably (well, nobody uses the term preserves in that loose sense, only the stricter one)

I live in the Rust Belt, where I was born and raised. It’s super boring where I am, but my state Does have some cool things to do around it in different cities.

Unchurched Belt should be changed to: "outdoors paradise belt." Or "You want me to do what? with 1/2 my weekends, lol see you on the lift Belt"

Bible Belt

To expand a bit on the differences between American and British jel- words for you, Jell-O is a specific name brand of gelatin treat that you call jelly in the UK and had more or less been genericized. In the US we use the terms jelly and jam, but for two distinct variations of the product. Jelly is smooth and made only using juice while jam is made with the juice, pulp, and seeds giving it a different flavor and texture. (There's also preserves, which use the whole fruit.)

there's, afaik, the hurricane belt, in the southeast coast and area around the Gulf of Mexico, because there are lots of hurricanes there, which can tend to go up and become noresters (the combination of north & east) which is slag for a storm, usually snow-based like a blizzard, or a hurricane, due to picking up speeds, wind, and water/snow from the Atlantic as it moves from the southeast to the northeast

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Jelly is not Jello. Jello - Dessert made with gelatin. Jelly - A spread made with pectin. Jam - Made with pectin, has fruit, doesn't have as firm consistency. Preserves - Made with pectin and more of the fruit. Marmalade - Made with citrus fruit, containing some of the peel in transparent jelly, made with pectin. Fruit Butter - A thick spread made with the pulp of the fruit and sugar.

i think of china having a “spicy food belt” from sichuan to hubei and hebei, where spicy foods are commonly eaten with the areas north and south eating different cultural cuisines; i have to double-check the map to draw the big colorful blob on it but i have been to one province in the “spicy food belt”

I live in the cement belt in fact my specific district that I live in and went to high school is knowing for making concrete that’s used world wide. Very exciting, I know. It’s located in the Lehigh valley in PA particularly Northampton county

To us Americans, Jelly specifically refers to seedless jam, typically made from fruit juice rather than the whole fruit. If it has seeds and/or pulp in it, It's Jam, or preserves if it's extra thick and solid, or marmalade if it's made of any kind of citrus.

I'm in the "Florida Man" belt, a stretch from the Tampa area to the Orlando area where most of the weird stories that come out of Florida take place.I don't know if anyone else has coined this term, but henceforth I do declare that it shall be so named. Thanks for the interesting video.

We have the Iron Range in NE Minnesota where the taconite iron mines are/were. .it was exported to the Steel Belt.

In the southeast we have an obscure belt called the soup belt because of the unusually hot and humid weather. It contains: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Mississippi