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6 unusual facts about Deep South


Bill Aron

In 2002, Aron published Shalom Y'All, focusing on Jews in the Deep South including, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and South Carolina.

Deep South

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee fared well in the Deep South in 2008 Republican primaries, losing only one state (South Carolina) while running (he had dropped out of the race before the Mississippi primary).

The Deep South has voted Republican in presidential elections for many decades, except in the 1976 election when Georgia native Jimmy Carter received the Democratic nomination, the 1992 election when Arkansas native and former Governor Bill Clinton won both Georgia and Louisiana and the 1996 election when the incumbent President Clinton again won Louisiana.

Deep South's Oldest Rivalry

With 36 seconds remaining and faced with 4th and 18 from the Tiger 26-yardline, Auburn quarterback Nick Marshall, a former defensive back for the Bulldogs during the 2011 season, threw a Hail Mary pass, which was tipped by Georgia safety Josh Harvey-Clemons right into the hands of Auburn sophomore wide receiver Ricardo Louis.

In 1942, Georgia won the national championship with an 11-1 record, beating UCLA in the 1943 Rose Bowl, Georgia lone loss came to Auburn, falling 27-13 at Columbus's Memorial Stadium.

Fred Onovwerosuoke

His tutelage under Dowcett at Principia was said to unleash a creative individualism that eventually evolved into a career as a composer with works that bear influences from Africa, the Caribbean and the American Deep South.


Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Alabama Extension, which will mark its centennial in 2014, possesses a history deeply rooted in the impoverished post-Civil War conditions of the rural Deep South.

Diddley bow

It was traditionally considered a starter or children's instrument in the Deep South, especially in the African American community and is rarely heard outside the rural South, but it may have been influenced to some degree by West African instruments.

Gideon Lincecum

Lincecum had good relations with Native Americans as he explored the wilderness in the American Deep South.

Indianola, Mississippi

From 1932 until 1934, Hortense Powdermaker conducted an anthropological study of the African-American community in Indianola, which served as the basis for her book, After Freedom: A Cultural Study In the Deep South and mentioned in her book "Stranger and Friend. The Way of an Anthropologist".

John S. Hunt, II

The new law, which enforced the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution led to the registration of large numbers of African-American voters throughout the Deep South.

Pigeons from Hell

"Pigeons from Hell" is one of several regional horror stories by Howard set in the piney woods in or near the ArkLaTex region of the Deep South.

Reorganization Act of 1939

Roosevelt was very active in the House and Senate primaries, working to "purge" the Democratic Party of Southern conservatives who had opposed the New Deal.

Swing state

For instance, a Republican candidate (the more conservative of the two major parties) can expect to easily win many of the Southern states like Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, which historically have a very conservative culture, very religious, and a more recent history of voting for Republican candidates.

The Secret of the Lost Tunnel

The Hardy Boys travel with Brigadier General Jack Smith to an historic Civil War battlefield in the Deep South.

United States presidential election in Mississippi, 1988

During this election, Mississippi continued the trend of voting in par with its sister states in the Deep South, a trend which has continued unbroken since 1960.


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66 Raw

Ludacris hosted "DTP Radio/Open Mic" he DJs and showcased music from the deep south.

Beaulieu, Georgia

The village still retains a Deep South atmosphere, with big live oaks covered with Spanish moss.

Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America

He leaves New York in distaste and proceeds in his hired car down to the Deep South, choosing to lie up for a time as a temporary resident of Guntersville, Alabama, a town which he immediately takes a liking to on one of his stopovers.

Juan Velasco Alvarado

In 1999 General Pinochet claimed that if Peru had attacked Chile during 1973 or even 1978, Peruvian forces could have penetrated deep south into Chilean territory, possibly reaching the southern Chilean city of Copiapó located half way to Santiago.

Oakley C. Johnson

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Johnson spent the next six years teaching at historically black universities in the deep South, including Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, Dillard University in New Orleans, and Tillotson College in Austin, Texas.

Rebecca DiPietro

She made her Deep South debut on September 3, 2006 in a backstage segment with Matt Striker, and from there began appearing in more segments and bikini contests.

Scottsboro Boys

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about growing up in the Deep South in the 1930s.

Thorney's Cooking Central

"Thorney's Cooking Central" is shot on location in Central Otago, which is located in the deep south of New Zealand.

Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

In American Slavery, the historian Peter Kolchin suggests that the economists did not fully consider the costs of the forced migration of more than one million slaves from the Upper South to the Deep South, where they were sold to cotton plantations.

Yuwen Shu

Emperor Yang's main forces put Goguryeo's key northern city Liaodong (遼東, in modern Liaoyang, Liaoning) under siege (although he was ultimately unable to capture it), but sent Yuwen with a branch army to head deep south, across the Yalu River, heading directly toward the Goguryeo capital Pyongyang.