Smile Belt (Rebroadcast) - 5 August 2019

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🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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0:00.0	You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
0:03.4	I'm Grant Barrett. And I'm Martha Barnett. We've heard a lot of talk lately about the Rust Belt,
0:08.4	and there's also the Bible Belt in this country, but one belt that I didn't realize existed is the smile belt.
0:16.0	What's the smile belt?
0:18.0	Places where it's often sunny?
0:19.0	No, the smile belt extends from the west coast down across the bottom of the United States and then up the East Coast.
0:26.0	What are they have in common? That's what I'm trying to figure out. I have read a whole bunch of different sources on marketing.
0:34.4	People in business who are trying to market either fish tacos or cars or
0:39.5	furniture and they're all talking about the smile belt. As a region that they're trying to do business in yes okay and it's just like the the image you might imagine
0:49.0	A shape of a smile overlaid on the are they all ocean states or sea states except for the one bordering Mexico?
0:55.0	Not across the bottom.
0:56.5	Wow, yeah, if you're in marketing, go let's know.
0:58.3	Why is this a region?
0:59.5	Why is this a target?
1:00.8	But there are lots of different regions like that in this country. There's a pine belt in Mississippi.
1:05.0	You've heard of the biscuit belt? That gets loosened the more biscuit.
1:09.0	Well, it's the region where people tend to really like their biscuits.
1:12.0	They have big bellies and an obesity problem. the region where people tend to really like their biscuits.
1:13.0	They have big bellies and an obesity problem.
1:15.1	So the biscuit belt probably overlaps with the smile belt.
1:18.3	A little bit, yeah.
1:19.3	Well here's what I'm guessing.
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