Cotton State

noun

1. Alabama (used as a nickname).

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cotton State¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

If Texas, herself a cotton state, should join the United States, dependence upon slave-grown cotton would be intensified.

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It was rare that a jury in a cotton State gave a verdict in his favor.

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In the great cotton state, the darkest spot on the continent, the Blacks have long been in a seemingly hopeless majority.

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