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Empire State of the South

Empire State of the South proper noun: nickname for Georgia: a state of the United States.

Proper noun

the Empire State of the South

  1. Nickname for Georgia: a state of the United States.
    • For, as can be clearly seen in the case of Georgia, the “Empire State of the South, ” the Knights fought the South's entrenched “Bourbon Democracy” in near isolation between the mid-1880s and early 1890s. While the Knights' efforts not ...2012, James M. Beeby, Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN

Origin of Empire State of the South

After the Empire State, and in reference to Georgia's industrialization following the American Civil War.

Questions about Empire State of the South

What does Empire State of the South mean?
Empire State of the South means nickname for Georgia: a state of the United States.
What part of speech is Empire State of the South?
Empire State of the South is a proper noun.

Words near Empire State of the South in the dictionary

  1. Empire of Japan
  2. Empire of Manchuria
  3. empire silhouette
  4. Empire State
  5. Empire State Building
  6. Empire State of the South
  7. Empire Stater
  8. Empire style
  9. Empire Vale
  10. empire waist
  11. empire waists

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