Sunbelt

American  

[suhn-belt] / ˈsʌnˌbɛlt /

Or Sun Belt

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. the southern and southwestern region of the U.S.

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Sunbelt British  

/ ˈsʌnˌbɛlt /

noun

1. the southern states of the USA

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Sunbelt Cultural  

1. States in the South and Southwest marked by warm climate, rapid economic and population growth in the last two decades, and (often) political conservatism.

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Etymology

Origin of Sunbelt

First recorded in 1950–55

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Example Sentences

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Sunbelt

There are pockets of distress in the market, especially in the Sunbelt where there is too much supply and the pandemic rally left home values out of sync with local incomes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Rental company Ashtead canceled its primary London listing in March and switched to the New York Stock Exchange and rebranded as Sunbelt Rentals, the name of its U.S. business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But it is widely diversified, spanning from Seattle to the Sunbelt to New York and New England.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The culture and politics of the Sunbelt — sometimes called “America B” by people who spend too much time online — is now inescapable.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

BellSouth was headquartered in Atlanta, ambitious metropolis of the new high-tech Sunbelt; and BellSouth was upgrading its network by leaps and bounds, digitizing the works left right and center.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

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