# What do you consider "The South"

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 2, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-the-south/455116 "2008-07-02T23:20:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-the-south/455116/61 "2008-07-06T18:11:56Z")

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As I see it…

- the South is Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and the panhandle of Florida.

- Texas is its own country - neither Southern or Western, just…Texas. Oklahoma and Arkansas are tributaries of Texas.

- North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, West Virginia and Kentucky are “Appalachian.”

Just my own personal interpretation, based on several years living in Virginia and South Carolina – could be contrary to the facts on the ground.

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**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-consider-the-south/455116/62 "2008-07-06T21:45:11Z")

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[QUOTE=Wendell Wagner]  
As I posted many times before, this is the best guide to the economic and cultural regions of North America:

> **[The Nine Nations of North America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Nations_of_North_America)**
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> The Nine Nations of North America is a 1981 book by Joel Garreau, in which the author suggests that North America can be divided into nine nations, which have distinctive economic and cultural features. He also argues that conventional national and state borders are largely artificial and irrelevant, and that his "nations" provide a more accurate way of understanding the true nature of North American society. The work has been called "a classic text on the current regionalization of North America...

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IMHO - That’s as definitive geographic representation of Dixie as you’ll ever see. Many people forget to include eastern Texas and the southern portions of Illinois and Indiana are culturally much like the Appalachians, just flatter geographically - a point I never realized until living in central Illinois for 10 years.

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