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

When he spoke, Sharpton described Jackson’s remarkable rise, “born in the Deep South, in the back of the bus, and growing to be a world leader.”

From Los Angeles Times

“I do remain optimistic about our state and optimistic about what our state can teach other receiving states, but Illinois cannot carry the entire country or the entire Deep South, or even the entire Midwest.”

From Salon

Six Republican governors in the Deep South want their constituents to know that they’re looking out for them.

From Los Angeles Times

Lal could also tell how much those three years in India meant to Lawson, and how the experience prepared him for the challenge of confronting racial segregation in the Deep South.

From Los Angeles Times

Mason was born into slavery in the Deep South in the summer of 1818.

From Los Angeles Times