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southeastern United States

n. the southeastern region of the United States [syn: Southeast]

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Southeastern United States

The Southeastern United States is the eastern portion of the Southern United States, and the southern portion of the Eastern United States.

Usage examples of "southeastern united states".

When Hernando de Soto became the first European conquistador to march through the southeastern United States, in 1540, he came across Indian town sites abandoned two years earlier because the inhabitants had died in epidemics.

No one is yet willing to say on the record where it is likely to fall, but unofficially they are suggesting the southeastern United States or the Caribbean.

Alberto's job applications had been rejected by every municipal police department in the southeastern United States.

Soon the Internal Revenue Service merrily leapt into the investigation and, within six short months, one of the largest land-development firms in the Southeastern United States went belly-up like a dead mudfish.

Today mockingbirds live in many northern states, but only a few decades ago mockingbirds lived principally in the southeastern United States.

He could see Florida off to his right, and the arching coast of the southeastern United States.

Many Indian tribes in what is now southeastern United States treasured such crystals, believing them to have the power, among other things, to show the future.

A column on the front page announced that Walt Disney World was expanding its empire to build a mammoth retail shopping center, one of the largest in the Southeastern United States.

The most important place in the southeastern United States is advertised on hundreds of aging barn roofs across Georgia and Tennessee and up into Kentucky.

We are close to the beginnin of the famous Smackover Formation, he says, which is where all the awl in the whole southeastern United States comes from.