The Deep South

The Deep South is a descriptive category of the cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. Historically, it is differentiated from the "Upper South" as being the states which were most dependent on plantation type agriculture during the pre-Civil War period. The Deep South was also commonly referred to as the Lower South or the "Cotton States".^[1][2]

Today, the Deep South is usually delineated as being those states and areas where things most often thought of as "Southern" exist in their most concentrated form.^[3]

((the 〜))（米国の）最南部地方：特にSouth Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisianaの諸州.
我看過"南方腹地"的翻譯 可能不太妥善
因為". 腹地 [fu4di4], n., central region, opp. frontier, 邊地." (林語堂漢英辭典)

The states in dark red compose the Deep South today. Adjoining areas of East Texas, North Florida and the Florida Panhandle are also considered part of this subregion. Historically, these seven states formed the original Confederate States of America.

腹地
注音一式　ㄈㄨˋ　ㄉ｜ˋ
漢語拼音　ｆ 　ｄ	注音二式　ｆ 　ｄ
相似詞　內地、要地	相反詞
內地，靠近中心的地區。如：「此港腹地不大，發展將受阻礙。」