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Belt Regions in the United States

By: Kinzie Perry

Rust Belt

Corn Belt

Sun Belt

  • The rust belt is the former industrial areas of North America near the Great Lakes with high rates of out-migration.
  • Area that typically includes Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
  • These states specialized in large scale manufacturing of finished medium to heavy industrial and consumer products, as well as the transportation and processing of the raw materials required for heavy industry.
  • Area that includes Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, southern Michigan, western Ohio, eastern Nebraska, eastern Kansas, southern Minnesota and parts of Missouri.
  • Corn has been the predominant crop since the 1850's
  • The Corn Belt represents the most intensively agricultural region of the Midwest.
  • Area that includes Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, roughly half of California and parts of Arkansas, North Carolina, and southern Nevada.
  • The belt has experienced substantial population growth since the 1960s due to an increase of people seeking a warm and sunny climate, a surge in retiring baby boomers, and growing economic opportunities.
  • One of the greatest threats facing the Belt in the coming decades is water shortages.

Dairy Belt

Black Belt

  • They are major producers of milk, chese, and other dairy products.
  • Lies north of the corn belt, and includes Wisconsin, and most of Minnesota and Michigan.
  • Originally described the prairies and dark soil of central Alabama and northeast Mississippi.
  • Goes through the center of the Deep South, but also stretching from as far north as Delaware to as far west as East Texas.
  • Booker T. Washington described it as that it was distinguished by the color of the soil. The part of the country possessing this thick, dark, and naturally rich soil was, of course, the part of the South where the slaves were most profitable,
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