The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southern \South"ern\ (?; 277), a. [AS. s[=u][eth]ern. See South.] Of or pertaining to the south; situated in, or proceeding from, the south; situated or proceeding toward the south.
Southern Cross (Astron.), a constellation of the southern hemisphere containing several bright stars so related in position as to resemble a cross.
Southern Fish (Astron.), a constelation of the southern hemisphere ( Piscis Australis) containing the bright star Fomalhaut.
Southern States (U.S. Hist. & Geog.), the States of the American Union lying south of Pennsylvania and the Ohio River, with Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Before the Civil War, Missouri also, being a slave State, was classed as one of the Southern States.
Wikipedia
Southern States may refer to:
- Southern United States
- Southern States Cooperative
- The independent states of the South in the North-South divide
- The independent states of the Southern hemisphere
- Southern States Athletic Conference
- Southern States (Switch Manufacturer)
Usage examples of "southern states".
Without them, from what they'd said, Lincoln would still be President, and President of a nation intent on taking vengeance on the unsuccessfully seceded Southern states.
He has always thought that, somehow or other, the Southern states will return.
The New York postmaster sought to dissuade the Anti-slavery Society from the attempt to send its publications through the mails into Southern States.
The bottom slots were occupied by those southern states which until recent years had refused to spend money on parks and playing fields and library books because they were afraid that blacks might want to use them too.
Sitting at Susans right, he discoursed on his vision of a more powerful Union, stretching to all parts of the continent, provisioned by the southern states, supplied with manufactures by the northern, and provided with raw materials by the western.
If they had not attacked us we would still be at war with the Southern states.
It is because I love this religion that I hate the slaveholding, the woman-whipping, the mind-darkening, the soul-destroying religion that exists in the southern states of America.
The reader is already aware that, through a mistaken policy, the government of Washington have removed from several southern states those tribes of half-civilised Indians which indubitably were the most honourable and industrious portion of the population of these very states.
Of the remainder, two hundred and ten millions were expended in the northern, and eighty millions in the southern states.