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ID: 4011499
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/4011499

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Southern United States (general region)  Southern United States (general region)

Note: In its broadest sense, it refers to states south of the Mason-Dixon Line and Ohio River, which was the boundary between opposing states in the Civil War. In this sense, it includes Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. In more common modern usage, it excludes Maryland, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Names:
Southern United States (preferred,C,V)
United States, Southern (C,V,English,U,N)
Southern States (C,V)
Etats-Unis du Sud (C,O,French,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Southern United States (general region)  ............  Southern United States (general region) (P)

Place Types:
general region (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:
Etats-Unis du Sud..........  [BHA]
................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Southern States..........  [VP]
.............................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1253
Southern United States..........  [VP Preferred]
.........................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
United States, Southern..........  [BHA]
.........................................  LC Subject Headings, 10th edition (1986)
Subject: .....  [BHA]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................  LC Subject Headings, 10th edition (1986)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1253
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) Accessed 05/17/2002.
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1253 ff.

 

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