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The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States. The term was first used to describe the states most dependent on plantations and chattel slavery during the early period of United States history. The region suffered economic hardship after the American Civil War and was a major site of racial tension during and after the Reconstruction era. The Civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s helped usher in a new era, sometimes referred to as the New South. Before 1945, the Deep South was often referred to as the Cotton States, since cotton was the primary cash crop for economic production.

The term "Deep South" is defined in a variety of ways:

Most definitions include the following states: Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Texas and Florida are sometimes included, due to being peripheral states, having coastlines with the Gulf of Mexico, their history of slavery, large African American populations, and being part of the historical Confederate States of America. The eastern part of Texas is the westernmost extension of the Deep South, while North Florida is also part of the Deep South region, typically the area north of Ocala.

Arkansas is sometimes included or considered to be "in the peripheral" or Rim South rather than the Deep South."

The seven states that seceded from the United States before the firing on Fort Sumter and the start of the American Civil War, which originally formed the Confederate States of America. In order of secession, they are South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. The first six states to secede were those that held the largest number of slaves percentage wise. Ultimately, the Confederacy included eleven states.

A large part of the original "Cotton Belt" is sometimes included in Deep South terminology. This was considered to extend from eastern North Carolina to Georgia, through the Gulf States as far west as East Texas, including West Tennessee, eastern Arkansas, and up the Mississippi embayment. Some of this is coterminous with the Black Belt, a term used for much of the Cotton Belt, which had a high percentage of African-American slave labor.

Although often used in history books to refer to the seven states that originally formed the Confederacy, the term "Deep South" did not come into general usage until long after the Civil War ended. For at least the remainder of the 19th century, "Lower South" was the primary designation for those states. When "Deep South" first began to gain mainstream currency in print in the middle of the 20th century, it applied to the states and areas of South Carolina, Georgia, southern Alabama, northern Florida, Mississippi, northern Louisiana, western Tennessee, southern Arkansas, and eastern Texas, all historical areas of cotton plantations and slavery. This was the part of the South many considered the "most Southern."

Later, the general definition expanded to include all of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, as well as often taking in bordering areas of East Texas and North Florida. In its broadest application, the Deep South is considered to be "an area roughly coextensive with the old cotton belt, from eastern North Carolina through South Carolina, west into East Texas, with extensions north and south along the Mississippi."

After the Civil War, the region was economically poor. After Reconstruction ended in 1877, a small fraction of the white population composed of wealthy landowners, merchants and bankers controlled the economy, and largely, the politics. Most white farmers were poor and had to do manual work on their farms to survive. As prices fell, farmers work became harder and longer because of a change from largely self-sufficient farms, based on corn and pigs, to the growing of a cash crop of cotton or tobacco. Cotton cultivation took twice as many hours of work as raising corn. The farmers lost their freedom to determine what crops they would grow, ran into increasing indebtedness, and many were forced into tenancy or into working for someone else. Some out-migration occurred, especially to Texas, but overtime, the population continued to grow and the farms were subdivided smaller and smaller. Growing discontent helped give rise to the Populist movement in the early 1890s. It represented a sort of class warfare, in which the poor farmers sought to gain more of an economic and political voice.

After 1950, the region became a major epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement, including: the emergence of a young (25 year old) new pastor of a local church, Martin Luther King Jr., the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, the 1956 Sugar Bowl Riots, the 1960 founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the 1964 Freedom Summer.

The Deep South has three major Metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) located solely within its boundaries, with populations exceeding 1,000,000 residents. Atlanta, the 9th largest metro area in the United States, is the Deep South's largest population center.

Metropolitan areas

Largest Deep South metropolitan areas include:

Rankings are assorted by metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) population. Combined statistical areas (CSAs) populations are shown as well.

In the 1980 census, of people who identified solely by one European national ancestry, most European Americans identified as being of English ancestry in every Southern state except Louisiana, where more people identified as having French ancestry. A significant number also have Irish and Scotch-Irish ancestry.

With regards to people in the Deep South who reported only a single European-American ancestry group, the 1980 census showed the following self-identification in each state in this region:

Alabama - 857,864 persons out of a total of 2,165,653 people in the state identified as "English," making them 41% of the state and the largest national ancestry group at the time by a wide margin.

Georgia - 1,132,184 out of 3,009,486 people identified as "English," making them 37.62% of the state's total.

Mississippi - 496,481 people out of 1,551,364 people identified as "English," making them 32.00% of the total, the largest national group by a wide margin.

Florida - 1,132,033 people out of 5,159,967 identified "English" as their only ancestry group, making them 21.94% of the total.

Louisiana - 440,558 people out of 2,319,259 people identified only as "English," making them 19.00% of the total people and the second-largest ancestry group in the state at the time. Those who wrote only "French" were 480,711 people out of 2,319,259 people, or 20.73% of the total state population.

South Carolina - 578,338 people out of 1,706,966 identified as "English," making them 33.88% of the total at the time.

Texas - 1,639,322 people identified as "English" only out of a total of 7,859,393 people, making them 20.86% of the total people in the state and the largest ancestry group by a large margin.

These figures do not take into account people who identified as "English" and another ancestry group. When the two were added together, people who self-identified as being English with other ancestry, made up an even larger portion of southerners. South Carolina was settled earlier than other states commonly classified as the Deep South. Its population in 1980 included 578,338 people out of 1,706,966 people, who identified as "English" only, making them 33.88% of the total population, the largest national ancestry group by a wide margin.

The map to the right was prepared by the Census Bureau from the 2000 census; it shows the predominant ancestry in each county as self-identified by residents themselves. Note: The Census said that areas with the largest "American"-identified ancestry populations, were mostly settled by descendants of English and others from the British Isles, French, Germans and later Italians. Those with African ancestry tended to identify as African American, although most African Americans also have some British or Northern European ancestors as well.

As of 2003, the majority of African-descended Americans in the South live in the Black Belt geographic area.

Hispanic and Latino Americans largely started arriving in the Deep South during the 1990s, and their numbers have grown rapidly. Politically they have not been very active; most are not yet citizens.

Political expert Kevin Phillips states that, "From the end of Reconstruction until 1948, the Deep South Black Belts, where only whites could vote, were the nation's leading Democratic Party bastions."

From the late 1870s to the mid-1960s, conservative whites of the Deep South held control of state governments and overwhelmingly identified and supported the Democratic Party. The most powerful leaders belonged to the party's moderate-to-conservative wing. The Republican Party would only control mainly mountain districts in Southern Appalachia, on the fringe of the Deep South, during the " Solid South" period.

At the turn of the 20th century, all Southern states, starting with Mississippi in 1890, passed new constitutions and other laws that effectively disenfranchised the great majority of blacks and sometimes many poor whites as well. Blacks were excluded subsequently from the political system entirely. The white Democratic-dominated state legislatures passed Jim Crow laws to impose white supremacy, including caste segregation of public facilities. In politics, the region became known for decades as the "Solid South." While this disenfranchisement was enforced, all of the states in this region were mainly one-party states dominated by white Southern Democrats. Southern representatives accrued outsized power in the Congress and the national Democratic Party, as they controlled all the seats apportioned to southern states based on total population, but only represented the richer subset of their white populations.

Major demographic changes would ensue in the 20th century. During the two waves of the Great Migration (1916-1970), a total of six million African Americans left the South for the Northeast, Midwest, and West, to escape the oppression and violence in the South. Beginning with the Goldwater-Johnson election of 1964, a significant contingent of white conservative voters in the Deep South stopped supporting national Democratic Party candidates and switched to the Republican Party. They still would vote for many Democrats at the state and local level into the 1990s. Studies of the Civil Rights Movement often highlight the region.[citation needed ] Political scientist Seth McKee concluded that in the 1964 presidential election, "Once again, the high level of support for Goldwater in the Deep South, and especially their Black Belt counties, spoke to the enduring significance of white resistance to black progress."

White southern voters consistently voted for the Democratic Party for many years to hold onto Jim Crow Laws. Once Franklin D. Roosevelt came to power in 1932, the limited southern electorate found itself supporting Democratic candidates who frequently did not share its views. Journalist Matthew Yglesias argues:

The weird thing about Jim Crow politics is that white southerners with conservative views on taxes, moral values, and national security would vote for Democratic presidential candidates who didn't share their views. They did that as part of a strategy for maintaining white supremacy in the South.

Kevin Phillips states that, "Beginning in 1948, however, the white voters of the Black Belts shifted partisan gears and sought to lead the Deep South out of the Democratic Party. Upcountry, pineywoods and bayou voters felt less hostility towards the New Deal and Fair Deal economic and caste policies which agitated the Black Belts, and for another decade, they kept The Deep South in the Democratic presidential column.

Phillips emphasizes the three-way 1968 presidential election:

Wallace won very high support from Black Belt whites and no support at all from Black Belt Negroes. In the Black Belt counties of the Deep South, racial polarization was practically complete. Negroes voted for Hubert Humphrey, whites for George Wallace. GOP nominee Nixon garnered very little backing and counties where Barry Goldwater had captured 90 percent to 100 percent of the vote in 1964.

The Republican Party in the South had been crippled by the disenfranchisement of blacks, and the national party was unable to relieve their past with the South where Reconstruction was negatively viewed. During the Great Depression and the administration of Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, some New Deal measures were promoted as intending to aid African Americans across the country and in the poor rural South, as well as poor whites. In the post- World War II era, Democratic Party presidents and national politicians began to support desegregation and other elements of the Civil Rights Movement, from President Harry S. Truman's desegregating the military, to John F. Kennedy's support for non-violent protests. These efforts culminated in Lyndon B. Johnson's important work in gaining Congressional approval for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. Since then, upwards of 90 percent of African Americans in the South have voted for the Democratic Party, including 93 percent for Obama in 2012 and 88 percent for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Late 20th century to present

Historian Thomas Sugrue attributes the political and cultural changes, along with the easing of racial tensions, as the reason why southern voters began to vote for Republican national candidates, in line with their political ideology. Since then, white Deep South voters have tended to vote for Republican candidates in most presidential elections. Times the Democratic Party has won in the Deep South since the late 20th century include: the 1976 election when Georgia native Jimmy Carter received the Democratic nomination, the 1980 election when Carter won Georgia, the 1992 election when Arkansas native and former governor Bill Clinton won Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, the 1996 election when the incumbent president Clinton again won Louisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas, and when Georgia was won by Joe Biden in the 2020 United States presidential election.

In 1995, Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich was elected by representatives of a Republican-dominated House as Speaker of the House.

Since the 1990s the white majority has continued to shift toward Republican candidates at the state and local levels. This trend culminated in 2014 when the Republicans swept every statewide office in the Deep South region midterm elections. As a result, the Republican party came to control all the state legislatures in the region, as well as all House seats that were not representing majority-minority districts.

Presidential elections in which the Deep South diverged noticeably from the Upper South, occurred in 1928, 1948, 1964, 1968, and, to a lesser extent, in 1952, 1956, 1992, and 2008. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee fared well in the Deep South in 2008 Republican primaries, losing only one state (South Carolina) while running (he had dropped out of the race before the Mississippi primary).

In the 2020 Presidential Election, the state of Georgia was considered a toss-up state hinting at a possible Democratic shift in the area. It ultimately would vote Democrat, in favor of Joe Biden.

From colonial times to the early-twentieth century, much of the Lower South had a black majority. Three Southern states had populations that were majority- black: Louisiana (from 1810 until about 1890), South Carolina (until the 1920s), and Mississippi (from the 1830s to the 1930s). In the same period, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida had populations that were nearly 50% black, while Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia had black populations approaching or exceeding 40%. Texas' black population reached 30%.

The demographics of these states changed markedly from the 1890s through the 1950s, as two waves of the Great Migration led more than 6,500,000 African-Americans to abandon the economically depressed, segregated Deep South in search of better employment opportunities and living conditions, first in Northern and Midwestern industrial cities, and later west to California. One-fifth of Florida's black population had left the state by 1940, for instance. During the last thirty years of the twentieth century into the twenty-first century, scholars have documented a reverse New Great Migration of black people back to southern states, but typically to destinations in the New South, which have the best jobs and developing economies.

The District of Columbia, one of the magnets for black people during the Great Migration, was long the sole majority-minority federal jurisdiction in the continental U.S. The black proportion has declined since the 1990s due to gentrification and expanding opportunities, with many black people moving to southern states such as Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Maryland and others migrating to jobs in states of the New South in a reverse of the Great Migration.

U.S. Route 90 runs from Texas to Jacksonville, Florida. U.S. Route 11 runs through the Deep South to New York.

Black, Merle, and Earl Black. "Deep South politics: the enduring racial division in national elections". doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195381948.013.0018.

Brown, D. Clayton. King Cotton: A Cultural, Political, and Economic History since 1945 (University Press of Mississippi, 2011) 440 pp. ISBN 978-1-60473-798-1

Davis, Allison. Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class (1941) classic case study from the late 1930s

Dollard, John. Caste and Class in a Southern Town (1941), a classic case study

Fite, Gilbert C. Cotton fields no more: Southern agriculture, 1865-1980 (UP of Kentucky, 2015).

Gulley, Harold E. "Women and the lost cause: Preserving a Confederate identity in the American Deep South." Journal of historical geography 19.2 (1993): 125-141.

Harris, J. William. Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (2003)

Hughes, Dudley J. Oil in the Deep South: A History of the Oil Business in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, 1859-1945 (Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1993).

Key, V.O. Southern Politics in State and Nation (1951) classic political analysis, state by state. online free to borrow

Kirby, Jack Temple. Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920-1960 (LSU Press, 1986) major scholarly survey with detailed bibliography; online free to borrow.

Lang, Clarence. "Locating the civil rights movement: An essay on the Deep South, Midwest, and border South in Black Freedom Studies." Journal of Social History 47.2 (2013): 371-400. Online

Pierce, Neal R. The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven States of the Deep South (1974) in-depth study of politics and issues, state by state

Rogers, William Warren, et al. Alabama: The history of a deep south state (University of Alabama Press, 2018).

Roller, David C. and Robert W. Twyman, eds. The Encyclopedia of Southern History (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)

Rothman, Adam. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South (2007)

Thornton, J. Mills. Politics and power in a slave society: Alabama, 1800-1860 (1978) online free to borrow

Vance, Rupert B. Regionalism and the South (UNC Press Books, 1982).

Primary sources

Carson, Clayborne et al. eds. The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle (Penguin, 1991), 784pp.

Johnson, Charles S. Statistical atlas of southern counties: listing and analysis of socio-economic indices of 1104 southern counties (1941). excerpt

Raines, Howell, ed. My soul is rested: Movement days in the deep south remembered (Penguin, 1983).

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Food in the Deep South

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This is a list of notable foods of the Southern United States. The cuisine of the Southern United States has many various dishes and foods.

Alabama Slammer-a cocktail made with amaretto, Southern Comfort, sloe gin, and orange juice, served in a Collins glass

Ale-8-One-made in Winchester, Kentucky

Barq's Root Beer-first made in Biloxi, Mississippi

Blenheim Ginger Ale

Bourbon-made in central Kentucky

Brownie Chocolate Drink

Buffalo Rock ginger ale

Buttermilk

Cheerwine-a North Carolina-based cherry flavored drink

Coca-Cola-first made in Atlanta

Dr. Enuf-available in eastern Tennessee

Dr Pepper-a popular drink in Texas before achieving national popularity

Grapico-grape soda made by Buffalo Rock

Hurricane Punch

Mello Yello-a lemon-lime soda product of the Coca-Cola Company, sold primarily in the South

Mint julep-associated with the Kentucky Derby and The Great Gatsby

Muscadine wine and juice-usually homemade, though also commercially available from some regional vineyards

Nehi soda-produced by RC Cola, including grape, peach, and orange flavors

Orange juice from Florida

Pepsi Cola-first made in New Bern, North Carolina

RC Cola-first made in Columbus, Georgia

Red Rock Cola-invented in Atlanta in 1885, predating Coca-Cola

Sassafras tea

Sazerac cocktail

Southern Comfort-New Orleans-based neutral spirit, with sweeteners and peach flavor added

Sun Drop-citrus drink found in northern Alabama, central Tennessee, the Carolinas, western Kentucky, southeastern Missouri, and parts of Virginia

Sunny Delight (SunnyD)-invented in Mount Dora, Florida in 1964

Sugarcane juice

Sweet tea-usually served with ice, lemon, and sugar, sometimes with mint

Hand pie-biscuit or pie pastry filled usually filled with cooked dried apples, peaches and cherries, either baked or fried

Fritters-apple, peach, or sweet potato

Meats, poultry and seafood

Alligator meat-typically served fried

Barbecue-usually pork or beef, but also chicken; seasoning and preparation vary greatly within the region, though most commonly pork-based in areas east of Texas

Boudin-a spicy sausage, with rice as a central filler, from Cajun Louisiana

Chicken and dumplings

Chicken fried steak

Chicken gizzards-fried

Chitlins (chitterlings)-small intestine of a hog

Country captain

Crab cake-popular along the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland and Virginia), where the crab cake is typically not dredged in bread crumbs, and in Louisiana, where it typically is

Crawfish-also called crawdad, crayfish

Fried chicken-usually flour-battered and pan-fried

Fried fish and seafood-battered or dredged in cornmeal then pan fried or deep fried

Fried pork chops

Fried turkey-deep fried using an outdoor frier

Game meat-venison, rabbit, and game fowl are most common, but opossum, squirrel, and raccoon also may be eaten, especially in more remote areas

Grits and grillades-a Louisiana brunch staple

Ham-usually pan fried, roasted, or smoked; varieties include "sugar-cured" or "country" (salt-cured)

Hot hamburger plate-a slice of white bread topped with a hamburger patty, French fries and gravy

Liver-usually pan-fried pork or chicken liver, but also beef

Oyster stew-often eaten on Christmas Eve

Raccoon meat

Reptiles and amphibians-most notably alligator and frog legs, eaten in much of the South

Shrimp Creole

Stuffed ham-a specialty in Southern Maryland

Smithfield ham-a specialty of Smithfield, Virginia

Souse meat-also called head cheese

Squirrel meat

Soups, stews and boils

Burgoo-served at barbecues in western and central Kentucky, similar to Brunswick stew

Chicken sauce-picquante-chicken cooked in a tangy stew with tomatoes and spices, often served over rice, a favorite in southern Louisiana

Conch chowder-mainly a specialty of Florida

-a very thick stew made of crawfish or chicken and sausage, okra and roux served over rice

Hoppin' John

Low-country boil-any of several varieties

Frogmore stew-made with sausage, corn, crabs, and shrimp; popular in coastal South Carolina

Seafood muddle

Peanut soup-one of the oldest dishes consumed in the South, brought by Africans, mainly a dish of Virginia

Pilau-any number of dishes which combine rice stewed with meat (chicken, sausage, pork, or wild game) usually including onions or bell peppers, most popular is chicken bog. (These dishes are popular in South Carolina due to the influence of rice cultivation on the history of South Carolina)

She-crab soup-mainly served in the area around Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia from Atlantic crabs

Tomato soup-stewed tomatoes, okra and corn

Turtle soup-mainly a Creole dish in Louisiana

Terrapin stew-a historical dish of Atlantic Coast states such as Maryland and Virginia

Mashed potatoes-called "creamed" in some regions
Rutmus-potatoes boiled and mashed with turnip bottoms and butter

Okra-flour-battered and pan-fried or boiled, stewed, or steamed

Peas-often cooked with chunks of ham or onions

Potato salad-usually made in the South with egg, mayonnaise, prepared mustard and pickle relish

Ramp-wild leeks popular in the Appalachian mountains

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Der Ausdruck Deep South (deutsch: „Tiefer Süden") bezeichnet den südöstlichen Teil der Südstaaten der Vereinigten Staaten.

Der Begriff wird uneinheitlich definiert. Meist wird er weit gefasst und bezeichnet den gesamten Süden der Südstaaten, vor allem das Gebiet der heutigen Bundesstaaten South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi und Louisiana. Diese Region war in der Zeit vor dem Sezessionskrieg charakterisiert durch eine florierende und auf Sklaverei basierende Plantagenwirtschaft.

Manche amerikanischen Historiker - z. B. Ira Berlin - fassen den Begriff jedoch enger und bezeichnen als Deep South nur den westlichen Teil dieser Region, d. h. Alabama, Mississippi und Louisiana, gelegentlich auch Arkansas und Texas. Das Gebiet der späteren Bundesstaaten South Carolina, Georgia und Florida fasst Berlin unter der Sammelbezeichnung Lower South zusammen.

„Tiefer Süden" ist gleichzeitig der Titel des ersten Buches der „Louisiana-Trilogie" von Gwen Bristow.

Paul Theroux: Tief im Süden. Reisen durch ein anderes Amerika (Original: Deep South) Aus dem amerikanischen Englisch übersetzt von Reiner Pfleiderer, Franka Reinhart und Sigrid Schmid. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-455-50376-0.

Adam Rothman: Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-674-02416-8.

Ira Berlin: Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves, Cambridge, London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-674-01061-2

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Der Ausdruck Deep South (deutsch: „Tiefer Süden") bezeichnet den südöstlichen Teil der Südstaaten der Vereinigten Staaten. Der Begriff wird uneinheitlich definiert. Meist wird er weit gefasst und bezeichnet den gesamten Süden der Südstaaten, vor allem das Gebiet der heutigen Bundesstaaten South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi und Louisiana.

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By Victor Kiprop on April 11 2019 in World Facts

A map showing one interpretation of the Deep South.

The Deep South is a geographic and cultural region in the southern United States. The Deep South can include or exclude some states depending on the context. It commonly refers to the following states: Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Louisiana. Some definitions include Texas because of its history of slavery and as a member of the Confederate States of America. Some definitions also include North Florida and Arkansas. The state of Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and South Carolina were the first States to secede and form the Confederate States of America.

Origin Of The Deep South

History defines the Deep South as the original seven states of Confederacy, although the term was first used long after the Civil War ended. Before the war, the region was known as the "Lower South" and included Georgia, Florida, northern Alabama, North Louisiana, East Texas, and Mississippi. The latter definition expanded to cover the entire state of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Florida, and East Texas. The broadest interpretation used today extends from Eastern North Carolina, South Carolina, East Texas, and the states along the Mississippi.

Politics Of The Deep South

The region was predominantly in support of the Democratic Party for the large part of the 19th and 20th centuries because it considered the Republican Party responsible for igniting the Civil War that decimated the social and economic order of the region. However, the area mostly votes Republican today. One exception to this was the 1976 election, when Georgia overwhelmingly supported Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination, as he was a native Georgian.

Economy

The Deep South was historically the agricultural powerhouse of the United States, but manufacturing and processing Industries are gradually taking over. The chemical industry, food processing, coal products, and petroleum dominate Louisiana. Alabama transitioned from agriculture to manufacturing, technology, mining, and education. Farms in the Deep South have become fewer but more extensive as the states consolidate large-scale farming to maximize output.

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Which States Are Considered The Deep South?

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By Victor Kiprop on April 11 2019 in World Facts The Deep South is a geographic and cultural region in the southern United States. The Deep South can include or exclude some states depending on the context. It commonly refers to the following states: Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Louisiana.