The Southern United States, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, Dixie, the Southland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America.It is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern United States and Northeastern United States to its north and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico …
Demonym(s): Southerner, Southron (historically)
Country: United States
Population(2020): 126,266,107
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Main article: History of the Southern United States Native American culture[] The first well-dated evidence of human occupation in the south United States occurs around 9500 BC with the appearance of the earliest documented Americans, who are now referred to as Paleo-Indians. Paleoindians were hunter-gathers that roamed in bands and frequently hunted megafa…
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States in the Southern United States are in maroon or red. States that are sometimes thought of as Southern are striped red and white. The Southern United States (also known as The Southern States or "The South" among Americans) is a term for the Southeastern part of the United States. All Confederate States were in the South, but not all Southern States joined …
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Southern American English is a group of dialects of the English language spoken throughout the Southern states of the United States, from West Virginia and Kentucky to the Gulf Coast, and from the mid-Atlantic coast to throughout most of Texas and Oklahoma. Southern dialects make up the largest accent group in the United States. Southern American E…
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In 1860, 11 southern states left the Union intending to form a separate nation, the Confederate States of America. This rupture led to the Civil War, the Confederacy’s defeat, and the end of slavery. The scars left by the war took decades to heal.
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Originally founded by South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas, the Confederate States of America seceded in 1861. Soon after, four more slave-holding states, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina, joined the Confederacy. These states are often referred to as Dixie or the Old South.
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Sub-region of Southeastern Central States (Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee). Sub-region of Southwestern Central States (Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas). The page contains four maps of the southern region of the United States: a detailed road map of the region, an administrative map of the southern United States, an online satellite Google map …
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Removal of Southern Indians, 1830–1834 A map of the southeastern United States showing the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek or Muscogee, and Seminole), indicating the dates of removal to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) under the Indian Removal Act of 183... Kentucky and Tennessee, 1845
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This transition took several decades and Southern Democrats like Carter or Clinton were able to win several Southern states in presidential elections they won. The South is still considered among the most conservative areas in the US, but 21st-century demographic trends have turned states like North Carolina and Georgia into swing states, and Virginia downright blue.
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The Midland (a term not to be confused with Midwest) comprises portions of Middle Atlantic and Upper Southern states: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Serious European settlement of the Midland began a generation or more after that of the other major cultural centres and after several earlier, relatively ineffectual trials by the Dutch, Swedes, Finns, and British.
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The question of how to define the subregions in the South has been the focus of research for nearly a century.[18][19] As defined by the United States Census Bureau,[1] the Southern region of the United States includes sixteen states. As of 2010, an estimated 114,555,744 people, or thirty-seven percent of all U.S. residents, lived in the South, the nation's most populous region.[…
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America’s export economy during the pre-Civil War era was largely dominated by Southern staples -- cotton being the primary export. Southern capitalist, unlike the industrialist of the North, saw value in richly investing in cotton. Interest in cotton plantations created the need for field laborers -- slaves.
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The Unified States of South America (Spanish: Estados Unificados de Suramérica, Portuguese: Estados Unificados da Sulamérica) is one of the large, powerful superstate entities that dots the planet Earth. The USSA is unique in the fact that it's the oldest persisting nation on the planet, having been around several decades before the events of October 2077.
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Nov 05, 2001 . Southern United States. Southern United States. region: NA. Texas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Arkansas Tennessee. Images by the MODIS Rapid Response team. Published November 5, 2001. Data acquired November 5, 2001.
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Jan 14, 2006 . The combination of parched vegetation and gusty winds that caused dozens of devastating fires in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma in the first week of 2006 has brought a similar fate to a wider area of the southern United States in the second week of January. Among the newly affected states is Arkansas. This image shows the southeast corner of the state, …
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Southern separatism in defense of slavery culminated in 1860–61, when 11 Southern states (South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee) seceded from the …
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Colton's railroad map of part of the United States south of the 37th parallel embracing the country between the Atlantic Ocean and the 96th meridian of longitude. Detailed map of the southern United States showing drainage, cities and towns, and the railroad network. Contributor: G.W. & C. Colton & Co. Date: 1883. Map.
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The Southern United States, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, Dixie, the Southland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America.
Southern Tiwa. Tunica. Tuscarora. Louisiana French. Spanish. Texas German. The southern United States, also known as the American South, the southern states, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States. It is between the Atlantic Ocean and the western United States, with the midwestern United States ...
States in the Southern United States are in maroon or red. States that are sometimes thought of as Southern are striped red and white The Southern United States (also known as The Southern States or "The South" among Americans) is a term for the Southeastern part of the United States.
The Upper South: Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and on rare occasions Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware. Dixie: various definitions, but most commonly associated with the 11 states of the Old Confederacy.
Which Southern states did not secede from the Union? Despite their acceptance of slavery, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri did not join the Confederacy. Although divided in their loyalties, a combination of political maneuvering and Union military pressure kept these states from seceding.