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Southern States U.S. Confederacy government of 11 Southern states that left the Union in 1860. [Am. Hist.: EB, III: 73] popular name for Southern states in U.S. and for song. [Am. Hist.: EB, III: 587] archetypal novel about the South. [Am. Lit.: Gone With the Wind] color of the uniform of the Confederate soldier. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 566] coarsely ground hominy served in traditional Southern breakfast. [Am. Culture: Misc.] a Confederate soldier or a resident of the Confederate states. [Am. Usage: Misc.] boundary between Pennsylvania and Mary-land that came to divide the slave (southern) states from the free (northern) states. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1714] silvery gray plant whose threadlike fronds hang from trees in the South. [Am. Culture: EB, IX: 400–401] flag of the Confederate States of the U.S. [Am. Hist.: EB, III: 73] woody vine found in Southern gardens. [Am. Culture: EB, X: 716] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The ideas of men who speculate upon the dismemberment of the empire seem generally turned toward three confederacies -- one consisting of the four Northern, another of the four Middle, and a third of the five Southern States. That combination of forces--the over-lord, the white woman, and the black man--would have cost some- -probably all of them--their lives in the Southern States of America. This terrible secret society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. |
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