Deep South
Speech parts
1. Deep South - Noun
2. Deep South - Proper noun
Meaning
the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery
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New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.
Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.
After intense debates and statewide votes, seven Deep South cotton states passed secession ordinances by February 1861 (before Abraham Lincoln took office as president), while secession efforts failed in the other eight slave states.
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1994) 355-75 Comer sought 20 different railroad laws, to strengthen me railroad commission, reduce free passes handed out to grasping politicians, lobbying, and secret rebates to favored shippers.