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

Since the 1890s the area’s coalfields had attracted Colored people from the Deep South as well as European immigrants who were searching for work.

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His great fear is that the Deep South, Greater Appalachia and New France will combine with Midlands, a region Mr. Woodard considers susceptible to 21st-century authoritarianism, to form a dominant political force.

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Within weeks he began traveling to civil-rights hot spots in the Deep South.

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The story of Hugh of Lincoln—one of the earliest “blood libels” against the Jews—crossed the Atlantic to appear in American ballads from New England to the Deep South.

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“We were originally a rhythm and blues band, wearing blue suits and singing about people and problems in the Deep South,” Hayward recalled in an interview with The Times in 1990.

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