Turns out the city in the state of Georgia is named after this region. I don't know much about the city, except that a handful of friends from my university days are from it, so I was surprised, to say the least, to see this pop up on HN. Haven't thought about the city in years. [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdosta,_Georgia#:~:text=Trou....