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Texas. Virginia. The term Bible Belt refers to a region of the Southern United States and the Midwestern state of Missouri (which also has significant Southern influence), where Christian Protestanism exerts a strong social and cultural influence. The region has been described as one of the most socially conservative across the United States ...
Ephesus. Ephesus (Greek: Ἔφεσος Ephesos) was a Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia. Paul of Tarsus lived there for several years, and also wrote an Epistle to the Ephesians. One of the Seven churches of Asia to whom the first part of the Book of Revelation is addressed ( Revelation 2:1–7 ). The author praises the Ephesians for ...
According to a 2011 Gallup poll, the state with the greatest percentage of respondents identifying as "very religious" was Mississippi (59%), and the state with the smallest percentage were Vermont and New Hampshire (23%), while Florida (39%) and Minnesota (40%) were near the median. [57] A 2014 Pew Research poll found that the states with the ...
Corn Belt, midwestern and southern states where corn is the primary crop. Cotton Belt, southern states where cotton is or was a primary crop. Fruit Belt, an area where fruit growing is prominent, specially oranges at the state of Florida and grapes at California. Indiana Gas Belt, a region of Indiana that was the site of a natural gas boom in ...
Calneh – Assyrian city. Cana – Galilee. Canaan – Region on the Eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Capernaum. Cappadocia – Region in Asia Minor. Carchemish – Assyrian city. Caria – Nation in Asia Minor. Cenchrea. Chaldea – Mesopotamian state, eventually encompassing Babylonia.
It’s purple states like North Carolina and red states like Mississippi. It’s the Bible Belt and the Black Belt simultaneously. In all of this, though, there seems to be an implication that ...
Odum, Howard W. Southern regions of the United States (U of North Carolina Press, 1936) online free. Raper, Arthur F. Preface to peasantry: A tale of two black belt counties (1936, reprinted Univ of South Carolina Press, 2005), a classic study of Black Belt life; Online free; Roller, David C. and Robert W. Twyman, eds.
Deep South. States highlighted are geographically the southernmost states in the contiguous United States. The states in dark red comprise what is commonly referred to as the Deep South subregion, while the Deep South overlaps into portions of those in lighter red. The Deep South or the Lower South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the ...