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M. E. Garrison's Map of Dixie published in 1909. This version of Dixie only includes states within the Southeast, omitting traditionally included states such as Texas or Virginia. Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States.
In recent decades association football, known in the South as in the rest of the United States as "soccer", has become a popular sport at youth and collegiate levels throughout the region. The game has been historically widespread at the college level in the Atlantic coast states of Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas; which contain many of ...
The South is also where sludge metal was born, and where its pioneering acts, Eyehategod [103] and Crowbar, [104] come from, [105] as well as other notable bands of the style such as Down [106] and Corrosion of Conformity. [107] Other well known metal bands from the South include Crossfade, Pantera, Hellyeah, Lamb of God, and Mastodon.
Empire State of the South — Georgia is the largest Southern state in land area east of the Mississippi and was the leading industrial state of the Old South. [42] Goober State — Refers to peanuts, the official state crop. [43] State of Adventure Guam: Tano y Chamorro (Land of the Chamorro) [44] (used on Guam license plates) [45] [46] Hub of ...
Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State, after the state bird. Alabama is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". The state has diverse geography, with the north dominated by the mountainous Tennessee Valley and the south by Mobile Bay, a historically significant port.
For travelers looking for a reason to visit every state, here are 50 memorable things worth putting on your bucket list, from a state fair to the 9/11 Memorial. ... One of the state's best-known ...
South Carolina’s return to the ACC was by then out of the question. The earth was salted, the ground scorched, and institutional relationships lay beyond repair for some time to come.
Among other scores, South Carolina was given a grade of “C” for workforce, “C-” for infrastructure, “D-” for access to capital and a “C+” for cost of living and education.