the Deep South
noun
: the states in the most southern and eastern part of the U.S. and especially Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi
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Immigrants and Black workers, most of them migrants from the Deep South, were pushed into overcrowded neighborhoods with houses made of tarpaper and wood.
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Specifically, temperatures Saturday in the Deep South will soar to as much as 30 degrees above average, as highs top 80 degrees in many spots, the weather service said.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
ProPublica identified 155 counties across the Deep South with private schools that likely opened as segregation academies.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 Dec. 2024
At the trial, prosecutors quoted from the books and literature seized from Herndon and repeatedly invoked the Communist Party's idea of self-determination in the Black Belt—an independent nation of black people in the Deep South—as proof that Herndon was attempting to incite an insurrection.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Specifically, temperatures Saturday in the Deep South will soar to as much as 30 degrees above average, as highs top 80 degrees in many spots, the weather service said.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
ProPublica identified 155 counties across the Deep South with private schools that likely opened as segregation academies.
—Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica, 19 Dec. 2024
At the trial, prosecutors quoted from the books and literature seized from Herndon and repeatedly invoked the Communist Party's idea of self-determination in the Black Belt—an independent nation of black people in the Deep South—as proof that Herndon was attempting to incite an insurrection.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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