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THE SOUTHERN STATES

it includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of
Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia

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Texas and Florida are southern states,

but are distinct regions in their own right

Oklahoma is also often considered

southern, though it is on the Great
Plains

Eastern and Southern Maryland have a

distinctly Southern culture

The Washington, D.C. suburbs in

Northern Virginia are often considered

NOTE
to be a part of the Mid-Atlantic rather
than the South
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The broadest definition of the South

includes all states which had slavery
until the end of the American Civil War
in 1865
The South
Is much more a
cultural region than a The Deep South is usually considered
geographical one to be the most archetypal region of the
South. The Border States remained in
States west of Texas the Union during the Civil War
are not considered part
of "The South", no
matter how far south The South was historically set apart
they are from other sections of the country by a
complex of factors: a long growing
season, its staple crop patterns, the
plantation system, and Black agricultural
labour, whether slave or free
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Profitable crops
The warm climate of the South
rainfall, offered 17th- and 18th-century
affords a period of 200–290 frost-
free days per year, enabling such
profitable crops as tobacco, rice,
sugarcane, and cotton to be
grown
Export
Plantation slavery
This climate, coupled with abundant
From the unique situation of supply
and demand of slave trade arose
European settlers a great opportunity
the system of plantation slavery
to raise crops for export
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The Southern social philosophy presented

a sharp contrast to that of the North:
it stressed a genteel, aristocratic lifestyle rather than one
based on the earnest accumulation of money
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Defense of slavery
Southern separatism in defense of
slavery culminated in 1860–61, when
11 Southern states seceded from the
Union and formed the Confederate
States of America
The Great Depression
Until 1932 the South remained an
Destruction impoverished and undiversified
The ensuing Civil War region. The Great Depression of the
wrought immense 1930s caused a total bankruptcy of
destruction on much of the the cotton economy, which was not
South, which emerged the relieved until federal New Deal
loser in the conflict legislation intervened
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After World War II the South began to experience

sustained growth and industrialization, particularly in
the lumber, paper, petrochemical, and aerospace
industries

The cultivation of citrus and other fruits, peanuts

(groundnuts), and soybeans eradicated the Deep
South’s historic dependence on cotton, which fell below
livestock, poultry, and textiles in production value

By the 21st century, manufacturing was the largest

sector of the economy in most Southern states
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Population growth
During the second half of the
20th century, the population
of the South boomed,
exceeding 100 million
Politics
Ever wealthier, the South
played an increasing role in
national politics beginning in
the final quarter of the 20th
century
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George Herbert George Walker Bush

Walker Bush
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Culturally, the South boasts a

literary tradition

It has also been the crucible of

jazz, blues, rock, and country
music
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it includes Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of
Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia

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