Old South

English

Proper noun

the Old South

  2. (US, historical, usually) Those states of the Southern United States that were among the original Thirteen Colonies.
  3. (US, historical, sometimes) The states which created the Confederacy during the American Civil War, as contrasted with those that joined afterward.
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