Old South

noun

1. the U.S. South before the Civil War.

Old South

noun

1. the American South before the Civil War

Example Sentences

It is a historic place, often cited in those stories about great old bars in the great Old South.

From The Daily Beast

The University of Mississippi can honors its traditions without embracing the worst symbols of the Old South.

From The Daily Beast

“The way that slavery was in the Old South is not in keeping with the way it has been portrayed,” McBerry insisted.

From The Daily Beast

Sort of Inglourious Basterds transferred from World War II Europe to the Old South.

From The Daily Beast

Fortier says Friends of Forrest wants to make sure “the Old South rises again.”

From The Daily Beast

To the Old South Church itself, the sightseer next turns, if still bent on historical pilgrimages.

From Project Gutenberg

It was erected at a cost of over half a million of dollars to take the place of the disused "Old South" on Washington street.

From Project Gutenberg

How painful was such a crisis that split up the old South into disgraced and bleeding fragments!

From Project Gutenberg

I am gazing again upon the sepulchre of the old South, after the plowshare of war and reconstruction had run the last furrow.

From Project Gutenberg

In the true representative outlines of the old South there is a number dropped from the rolls, that is all.

From Project Gutenberg