the Deep South
noun
: the states in the most southern and eastern part of the U.S. and especially Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi
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Buffalo also provided an important reminder that, despite the focus of much of Wells’ work being the Deep South, racist terrorism has never been a uniquely Southern phenomenon.
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TIME, 14 May 2024
Their departure created a nursing shortage and the city of New York recruited young Black women from the Deep South to fill the void.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 7 May 2024
This is the Deep South, after all, where anti-union attitudes are enshrined in state constitutions.
—Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 6 May 2024
Many participants in the Freedom Rides of 1961 were also college students and were confronted with violent mobs who met them in the Deep South.
—Richard Fausset, New York Times, 4 May 2024
Their drive down the East Coast is cruising toward the Deep South, and communication styles are chafing.
—New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Temperatures were forecast to dip below freezing across much of the Deep South Tuesday morning, the weather service said, prompting a freeze warning for at least 24 million people from Texas to North Carolina.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
The last independent or third-party candidate to win a state was segregationist Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, who won five in the Deep South in 1968.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
On the southern tier of this storm, the clash of cold and warm air, among other factors, will contribute to a potential multi-day severe weather outbreak from the Southern Plains into the Deep South.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2024
TIME, 14 May 2024
Their departure created a nursing shortage and the city of New York recruited young Black women from the Deep South to fill the void.
—Melissa Noel, Essence, 7 May 2024
This is the Deep South, after all, where anti-union attitudes are enshrined in state constitutions.
—Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 6 May 2024
Many participants in the Freedom Rides of 1961 were also college students and were confronted with violent mobs who met them in the Deep South.
—Richard Fausset, New York Times, 4 May 2024
Their drive down the East Coast is cruising toward the Deep South, and communication styles are chafing.
—New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
Temperatures were forecast to dip below freezing across much of the Deep South Tuesday morning, the weather service said, prompting a freeze warning for at least 24 million people from Texas to North Carolina.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
The last independent or third-party candidate to win a state was segregationist Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, who won five in the Deep South in 1968.
—Ron Elving, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
On the southern tier of this storm, the clash of cold and warm air, among other factors, will contribute to a potential multi-day severe weather outbreak from the Southern Plains into the Deep South.
—Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 24 Mar. 2024
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