Deep South

noun

the southeastern part of the U.S., including especially South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Deep South

noun

the SE part of the US, esp South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana

Deep South

The southernmost tier of states in the South: South Carolina , Georgia , Florida , Alabama , Mississippi , and Louisiana . Before the Civil War , these states were centers of cotton production and slavery. All of them seceded from the United States before the firing on Fort Sumter . They are sometimes distinguished from the states of the Upper South ( Virginia , North Carolina , Tennessee , and Arkansas ), which contained proportionately fewer slaves prior to the Civil War and which seceded only after the firing on Fort Sumter.

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America's Deep South, with its rich, troubled history and deep wells of folklore, is a curiously underused setting for video games.

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“But anyone from a rural place knows that country doesn’t have to come from the Deep South. In terms of stolen country valor, I’ve probably stolen more than most.”

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When he spoke, Sharpton described Jackson’s remarkable rise, “born in the Deep South, in the back of the bus, and growing to be a world leader.”

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“I do remain optimistic about our state and optimistic about what our state can teach other receiving states, but Illinois cannot carry the entire country or the entire Deep South, or even the entire Midwest.”

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Six Republican governors in the Deep South want their constituents to know that they’re looking out for them.

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