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[6] [7] The South does not precisely correspond to the entire geographic south of the United States, but primarily includes the south-central and southeastern states. For example, California, which is geographically in the southwestern part of the country, is not considered part of the South.
The culture of the Southern United States, Southern culture, or Southern heritage, is a subculture of the United States. From its many cultural influences, the South developed its own unique customs, dialects , arts, literature , cuisine , dance, and music . [ 3 ]
The Arkansas Delta is also sometimes included, [4] [9] though Arkansas is usually considered to be "in the peripheral" or Rim South rather than the Deep South. [10] Seven states 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 ...
Mike Mangeot, chair of Travel South USA and commissioner of Kentucky Tourism, told The Independent that the US south is “booming, with the southern states welcoming more than four million ...
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.
Although Maryland is not often considered part of Dixie today, [2] [3] it is below the Mason–Dixon line.If the origin of the term Dixie is accepted as referring to the region south and west of that line (which excludes Delaware despite it having been a slave state in 1861), Maryland lies within Dixie.
They do consider South Carolina part of the South, though. Yet, somehow, Charlotte still isn’t, despite the fact that South Carolina cities are part of the Charlotte metropolitan area.
The first well-dated evidence of human occupation in the south United States occurs around 9500 BC with the appearance of the earliest documented Americans, who are now referred to as Paleo-Indians. [6] Paleoindians were hunter-gatherers that roamed in bands and frequently hunted megafauna including Wooly Mammoth and Giant short-faced bears. [7]