Deep South

noun

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

Deep South

noun

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

Deep South

1. 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.

Example Sentences

Her grandmother, a source of Deep South warmth and kindness, was the history-keeper.

From ProPublica

In the Deep South states of Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, and in the northern tier of the Mountain West, mobility is already higher than before the pandemic.

From Washington Post

That’s a better starting position than Republicans had after their 2008, 1992 and 1976 defeats, which unfolded before Deep South states and rural areas had fully abandoned Democrats.

From Washington Post

You mix up English working-class gruffness with African-American soul from the Deep South.

From The Daily Beast

Much more common is the African American lesbian couple in the Deep South raising children at or below the poverty line.

From The Daily Beast

But otherwise he was far more pessimistic about the rest of the Deep South.

From The Daily Beast

John Barrow, who lost on Tuesday, is the last white Democratic congressman in the Deep South.

From The Daily Beast

Even worse—the Klan, in the Deep South anyway, was almost an arm of the Democratic Party.

From The Daily Beast