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  2. Southwestern United States - Wikipedia

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    The brighter red and striped states may or may not be considered part of this region. The brighter red states (California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado) are also classified as part of the West by the U.S. Census Bureau, though the striped states are not; Texas and Oklahoma are classified as part of the South. [1]

  3. Pacific Southwest - Wikipedia

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    There is no universally accepted definition of the phrase "Pacific Southwest." Whereas the related term "Southwest" as shorthand for Southwestern United States is generally used in a cultural or historical sense (for example, to refer to parts of the United States that were once part of the First Mexican Empire), the term "Pacific Southwest" is more commonly defined strictly by geographic or ...

  4. Trans-Appalachia - Wikipedia

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    Trans-Appalachia is an area in the United States bounded to the east by the Appalachian Mountains and extending west roughly to the Mississippi River. It spans from the Midwest to the Upper South. The term is used most frequently when referring to the area as a frontier in the 17th, 18th and 19th century. [1]

  5. Old Southwest - Wikipedia

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    The "Old Southwest" is an informal name for the southwestern frontier territories of the United States from the American Revolutionary War c. 1780, through the early 1800s, at which point the US had acquired the Louisiana Territory, pushing the southwestern frontier toward what is today known as the Southwest.

  6. List of belt regions of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Borscht Belt, a region of Jewish resorts in the Catskill Mountains; Corn Belt, midwestern and southern states where corn is the primary crop; Cotton Belt, southern states where cotton is or was a primary crop; Fruit Belt, an area where fruit growing is prominent, specially oranges at the state of Florida and grapes at California

  7. Four-state area - Wikipedia

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    Outside of Tulsa (the largest city in the four-states area by far), the area has two primary television markets. The Joplin–Pittsburg market covers the region’s counties in Missouri; Ottawa County, Oklahoma (the only county in northeastern Oklahoma that is not designated as part of the Tulsa market); and most of those in southeastern Kansas (excluding Chautauqua and Montgomery counties ...

  8. Indigenous peoples of the North American Southwest - Wikipedia

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    A map showing the extent of three major cultures within the American Southwest and Northern Mexico with modern borders to provide geographical context. The Pre-Columbian culture of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico evolved into three major archaeological culture areas, sometimes referred to as Oasisamerica.

  9. West South Central states - Wikipedia

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    Texas is the largest West South Central state by both area and population; Texas is still home to over half the region's population. The largest city in the region, Houston , is located in Texas. New Orleans was tied with Oklahoma City in population but, after Hurricane Katrina , the population of the New Orleans metro area declined to ...