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
Examples of the Deep South in a Sentence
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Their drive down the East Coast is cruising toward the Deep South, and communication styles are chafing.
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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
Set in the Deep South, the story revolves around John Singer, a deaf-mute with Christlike patience and fast-moving hands.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Parts of the Deep South and Southeast face slight risks of severe weather, with concerns of flooding and tornadoes.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
The slave trade, for example, was even more lethal in Jamaica, where Marley was born, than the Deep South of the US.
—John Blake, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
Its evolution can be traced from the Deep South to Thomas Jefferson’s White House to the Midwest and coastal cities that people of the Great Migration settled in throughout the 20th century and beyond.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
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
Set in the Deep South, the story revolves around John Singer, a deaf-mute with Christlike patience and fast-moving hands.
—Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
Parts of the Deep South and Southeast face slight risks of severe weather, with concerns of flooding and tornadoes.
—Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2024
The slave trade, for example, was even more lethal in Jamaica, where Marley was born, than the Deep South of the US.
—John Blake, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
Its evolution can be traced from the Deep South to Thomas Jefferson’s White House to the Midwest and coastal cities that people of the Great Migration settled in throughout the 20th century and beyond.
—Danielle Dorsey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2024
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