[Cob] Deep South

[Jon Kerr]

Here's a quote from the wikipedia entry:

The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the American  
South, differentiated from the "Old South" as being the post colonial  
expansion of Southern States in the antebellum period. There are  
various definitions of the term:

     * South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and  
Louisiana (All but NC constituted six of the seven founding members  
of the Confederate States of America)
     * Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana (From the  
Dictionary of Cultural Literacy)
     * Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi (From the  
National Endowment for the Humanities)

The "Deep South" is usually defined in opposition to the Old South  
including South Carolina, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia,  
Delaware, and often Georgia and also further differentiated from the  
inland border states such as Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and  
Arkansas and the peripheral southern states of Florida and Texas. The  
Upland South (or Upper South) is another southern region distinct  
from the Deep South. The estimated population of the Deep South as of  
2007 is around 21,000,000.

Although Florida is geographically the southernmost continental  
state, it is sometimes excluded from contemporary uses of the term  
"Deep South" due to the significant amount of migration into South  
Florida from other regions after World War II.

There's also a map with different shaded areas. Different people  
define the Deep South differently. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
Deep_South

Jon


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