SOUTHERN STATES

Definition: SOUTHERN STATES

SOUTHERN STATES

1. (U.S. Hist. & Geog.), the States of the American Union lying south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River, with Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Before the Civil War, Missouri also, being a slave State, was classed as one of the Southern States.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms: SOUTHERN STATES

Crosswords: SOUTHERN STATES

Books

• A Study of the Curricula of Seven Selected Women's Colleges of the Southern States (Columbia University Teacher College Contribution to Education 511) (reference)

• Piggin' Out: A Southern States Guide to Bar-B-Que Eateries (reference)

• A narrative of the leading incidents of the organization of the first popular movement in Virginia in 1865 to re-establish peaceful relations between the Northern and Southern States, and of the subsequent efforts of the "Committee of Nine," in 1869, to s (reference)

• The Roving Editor: Or Talks With Slaves in the Southern States, by James Redpath (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

GOES image of North America with storm system over southern states and frontal system off the East Coast. Credit: NOAA in Space.

Pavilion behind trees, possibly Southern States. Credit: Library of Congress.

Notices of death, Saint Martinville, Louisiana. This is a very common custom to post these notices in the Southern states. Credit: Library of Congress.

Migratory workers from southern states pick potatoes at six cents a bag. Monmouth County, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

The white-footed mouse is found through southern New England, the Mid-Atlantic and southern states, the midwestern and western states, and Mexico. (references)

But researchers now know that the higher percentage of African-Americans and the overall lower SES in the southern states does not adequately account for the higher incidence of, and mortality from, stroke in those states. (references)

They named this region the stroke belt. For many years, researchers believed that the increased risk was due to the higher percentage of African-Americans and an overall lower socioeconomic status (SES) in the southern states. (references)

Business

Southern states have been traditionally less productive, because of their lack of economic resources. (references)

Several southern states, most notably Guerrero, Oaxaca, and Chiapas, continued to suffer politically motivated violence. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Political violence, in the form of small skirmishes and intercommunal disputes, has been largely confined to the southern states of Mexico. (references)

Brazil

From 1875 until 1960, about 5 million Europeans emigrated to Brazil, settling mainly in the four southern states of Sao Paulo, Parana, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. (references)

Sudan

Although the southern states are "officially" exempt from these Islamic prohibitions and penalties, the 1991 act provides for a possible future application of Islamic Law (Shari'a) in the south. (references)

Political Economy

Mexico

Sporadic outbursts of politically motivated violence continued to occur in the southern states of Chiapas, Guerrero, and Oaxaca. (references)

Mexico

In fact, about 80% of the average state budget comes from the central government, and that money has traditionally been distributed disproportionately to the southern states, which are both poorer on average and have been more consistently pro-PRI. (references)

Sudan

The Government officially exempts the 10 southern states, whose population is mostly non-Muslim, from parts of the Criminal Act; however, the act permits the possible future application of Shari'a law in the south, if the State assemblies so decide. (references)

Worker Rights

Nigeria

The eastern part of Nigeria and some southern states such as Cross Rivers and Akwa Ibom have been the sites of trafficking of children for labor and, in some cases, human sacrifice. (references)

Mexico

The CTM agricultural union's success years earlier in obtaining free transport for migrant seasonal workers from southern states to fields in the north inadvertently led to a significant increase in child labor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Finnish

etelävaltiot (the South, the Southern States). (various references)

Pig Latin

outhernsay atesstay

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: southeastern, southeasters.

-3 letters: authoresses, southeaster, statehouses.

-4 letters: anestruses, astuteness, hoarseness, huntresses, northeasts, southeasts, statehouse, tartnesses, tautnesses, tutoresses.

-5 letters: anestrous, assenters, assentors, attesters, attestors, austerest, authoress, earstones, earthnuts, earthsets, harnesses, hasteners, honestest, hotnesses, northeast, oestruses, otherness, outstares, outstarts, outstates, outsteers, reseasons, resonates, rheostats, rottenest, sarsenets, sauternes, seashores, seasoners, shortness, southeast, southerns, starnoses, stoutness, teahouses, testators.

+2 letters: southeasternmost, stoutheartedness.

+4 letters: stoutheartednesses.

+5 letters: authoritativenesses.