Deep South
15
4.4
- proper noun
- /dip saʊθ/
- US
:
Sur profundo
- The Deep South is known for its rich traditions in music and cuisine.
- Deep South states
- Deep South, Alabama
- located in the Deep South
SI was born in the Deep South, South Carolina.
- SI was born in the Deep South, South Carolina.
- She would be the first black woman governor ever in our history and certainly in the Deep South.
- For me, getting stopped by the cops in Los Angeles is a different experience than getting stopped by the cops, let's say, in the Deep South.
- Oliver Stone So it's going down right then and there, and here I am, a dude from New York in the Deep South, seeing all this shit storm going around me.
Examples
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Furthermore, Georgia possessed the most extensive rail system in the Deep South, second only to Virginia.
Academic text (2007) -
In quick succession, other Deep South states followed suit.
Academic text (2009) -
It's something you would expect to see in the Deep South, she said.
Blog text (10) -
And I just got to tell you, the Deep South is no joke in America.
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The subject of his lecture was "The Development of Newspapers in the Deep South."
Fiction book (1993) -
One is located in the Deep South, and the other is located in the Midwest.
Academic text (1992) -
Did Nixon have a campaign strategy that appealed to the racists of the Deep South?
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On this bright spring morning of 1944 in America's Deep South, the crowd pressed Marilee back against a store window.
Fiction book (1990) -
Nixon won the Sunbelt, and he lost the Deep South to Democratic segregationist George Wallace.
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Centrally located in the Deep South, Alabama became an important destination for Hispanic immigrants and migrants in the 1990s.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
The southern part of the United States below the Mason-Dixon line
122
1.7
A part of the United States in the south and east, often including Georgia and Florida
1
3.1
A part of the United States near the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, including Georgia and Florida
1
1.8
A part of the United States in the south with warm summers and a distinct culture
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'deep' (far/intense) + 'South' (the southern region) allows a learner to infer a general geographic meaning — a region far to the south — so the basic locational sense is partly derivable from the parts. However, the fixed proper-name usage referring to a specific U.S. subregion with particular historical and cultural connotations (states, slavery, cotton, etc.) is not predictable from the constituents alone, so it is not fully transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Deep South comes from the idea of the South that is very deep or 'far inside' the country, where large cotton farms and the old Southern way of life were strongest. So today Deep South means the southern states known for that history, culture, and very hot summers.