DEEPSOUTH
Deep South
The Deep South is a descriptive category of the cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. Historically, it is differentiated from the "Upper South" as being the states most dependent on plantation type agriculture during the pre–Civil War period. The Deep South was also commonly referred to as the Lower South or the Cotton States.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Deep South
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