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Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by amazingman on Sunday November 04, 2018 @12:08AM (#18374152)
Contrary to what seems to be popular perception, Texas is not “the South”. The South is the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, and _maybe_ the Virginias and Kentucky.
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Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by DoreenMichele on Sunday November 04, 2018 @01:02AM (#18374511)
The best history book I ever read on The South indicated that extensive research found that some definitions included Texas, some didn't. Some included Florida, and some didn't. Etc.

Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and a few others were consistently included in all definitions of The South. "Edge" states for the region varied tremendously.

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Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by Godel_unicode on Sunday November 04, 2018 @01:59AM (#18374507)
That would be the deep south.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_South

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Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by heartbreak on Sunday November 04, 2018 @12:39AM (#18374256)
The capital of the Confederacy was in Virginia, but you’ve decided that it’s not in the South.

Let’s try Wikipedia instead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States

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Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by gergi on Sunday November 04, 2018 @01:25AM (#18374567)
Geographically, sure. However, "the South" can mean a lot of different things. e.g. "the South" culturally does not apply to much of Virginia, Texas, or Florida.
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Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by heartbreak on Sunday November 04, 2018 @08:56AM (#18375878)
As clearly stated in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article I linked, you’re confusing the “Deep South” and the “South.”
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Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by NotSammyHagar on Sunday November 04, 2018 @01:37AM (#18374439)
The south is the states that lost the civil war. It goes past Mississippi.
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Re:Amazon HQ2: Advanced talks about second headquarters in N... by gergi on Sunday November 04, 2018 @01:26AM (#18374569)
That's only one way of defining it. Without context, it can mean many different things.
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