| − | '''The South''' includes the eleven states that made up the [[Confederate States of America]] which consisted of [[South Carolina]], [[Mississippi]], [[Florida]], [[Alabama]], [[Georgia]], [[Louisiana]], [[Texas]], [[Virginia]], [[Arkansas]], [[Tennessee]] and [[North Carolina]]. The South is currently defined by the US Census as these states, as well as [[Delaware]], [[Maryland]], [[West Virginia]], [[Kentucky]], and [[Oklahoma]]. <ref>http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf</ref> | + | '''The South''' includes the eleven states that made up the [[Confederate States of America]] which consisted of [[South Carolina]], [[Mississippi]], [[Florida]], [[Alabama]], [[Georgia]], [[Louisiana]], [[Texas]], [[Virginia]], [[Arkansas]], [[Tennessee]] and [[North Carolina]]. The South is currently defined by the US Census as these states, as well as [[Delaware]], [[Maryland]], [[West Virginia]], [[Kentucky]], and [[Oklahoma]]. <ref>http://www.census.gov/geo/www/us_regdiv.pdf</ref> The '''''Deep South''''' consists of the states most "southern" ''in culture'': South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of Georgia and Louisiana. |
| | The '''Ante-Bellum South''' comprised the slave states before the American Civil War started in 1861; all the northern states had abolished slavery. The social history is considered in terms of large plantations with more than 20 slaves that grew cotton and other crops for export, and the "plain folk", who owned few or no slaves. | | The '''Ante-Bellum South''' comprised the slave states before the American Civil War started in 1861; all the northern states had abolished slavery. The social history is considered in terms of large plantations with more than 20 slaves that grew cotton and other crops for export, and the "plain folk", who owned few or no slaves. |