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ISn't there also something called the clothing belt I guess? And no, I'm not talking about the belt you wear around the waist. St. Louis was once a very big city for manufacturing clothing, in addition to shoes and a lot of other things. You can see a lot of these old buildings on the northern and southern sides of downtown. I would imagine it was probably present in the entire rustbelt region.
There is also the clothing belt (not the belt around your waist) which I think was part of the rust belt. St. Louis used to be one of the most important cities in the United STates for clothes. We manufactured shirts, pants, and especially shoes. I would think that was part of the rustbelt at one point.
I think I might've posted something about that earlier. The tobacco belt, yes. It starts in Maryland and pretty much follows the Ohio River southwest and to the south for regions in which it is found. I think it is primarily a southeastern product though.
There is also the clothing belt (not the belt around your waist) which I think was part of the rust belt. St. Louis used to be one of the most important cities in the United STates for clothes. We manufactured shirts, pants, and especially shoes. I would think that was part of the rustbelt at one point.
Yeah, I know at one time we were a major shoe manufacturer... wasn't there a big shoe factory downtown somewhere? I'm thinking it was called Brown Shoe Co., but maybe I'm mistaken.
Yeah, I know at one time we were a major shoe manufacturer... wasn't there a big shoe factory downtown somewhere? I'm thinking it was called Brown Shoe Co., but maybe I'm mistaken.
No you are correct, in fact that term was in my head when I was thinking about. I believe that the City Museum is right next to the old shoe factory if not in the building itself!
And what states do they include? I know there is the corn, bible, rust, and sun.
Sometimes almost synonomous with the Rust Belt is the SNow Belt or the Frost Belt. They mostly overlap but not completely. Like Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, OHio, and Pennylvania and New Jersey and upstate NY would be in both. North Dakota and MInnesota are not Rust Belt but they are Frost/Snow Belt. The poor economies in this expanded region is due as much to the unpleasant weather as industrial decay.
Not very PC but I'd personally add the "Burrito Belt" stretching non-stop from Los Angeles to San Antonio....then picking up 1000 miles to the east to include Miami-Dade.
Not very PC but I'd personally add the "Burrito Belt" stretching non-stop from Los Angeles to San Antonio....then picking up 1000 miles to the east to include Miami-Dade.
Sometimes almost synonomous with the Rust Belt is the SNow Belt or the Frost Belt. They mostly overlap but not completely. Like Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, OHio, and Pennylvania and New Jersey and upstate NY would be in both. North Dakota and MInnesota are not Rust Belt but they are Frost/Snow Belt. The poor economies in this expanded region is due as much to the unpleasant weather as industrial decay.
Not very PC but I'd personally add the "Burrito Belt" stretching non-stop from Los Angeles to San Antonio....then picking up 1000 miles to the east to include Miami-Dade.
Illinois and Indiana and Michigan to my knowledge are not considered part of the Snow Belt. Michigan arguably could be since it does get a lot of lake effect snow, but only the Northernmost parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio IMO qualify as the Snow Belt. The Snow Belt region that I know of begins in Northeastern Ohio in Cleveland and heads northeast and due east of there. It does not encompass the Midwest generally. Illinois normally does not get lake effect snow to my knowledge do to its being west of the Great Lakes. The Snow Belt to my knowledge is a region which typically gets 60 or more inches of snow. In this respect, places like Chicago and the Twin Cities and even Detroit do not qualify for this. Their historical averages are in the 30 inch range. Minneapolis maybe 40 inch. Cleveland and Northeast Ohio to my knowledge are the only parts of the Midwest that are in the Snow Belt.
Boise, Idaho:
Unchurched belt. Technically. The "official" UB is Wash. Ore. Hawaii and Alaska, but Idaho should count in that also. Idaho had a higher percentage of 'non-religious' people in the 2000 census than Oregon at 20% even with a large population of Mormons in the state. The southern part of the state, and even arguably the Boise area, is in the Jello Belt.
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