noun
the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
• Syn: ↑Confederacy, ↑Confederate States of America, ↑South, ↑Dixie, ↑Dixieland
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑geographical area, ↑geographic area, ↑geographical region, ↑geographic region
• Member Meronyms:
↑Alabama, ↑Heart of Dixie, ↑Camellia State, ↑AL, ↑Arkansas, ↑Land of Opportunity, ↑AR, ↑Florida, ↑Sunshine State, ↑Everglade State, ↑FL, ↑Georgia, ↑Empire State of the South, ↑Peach State, ↑GA, ↑Louisiana, ↑Pelican State, ↑LA, ↑Mississippi, ↑Magnolia State, ↑MS, ↑Missouri, ↑Show Me State, ↑MO, ↑North Carolina, ↑Old North State, ↑Tar Heel State, ↑NC, ↑South Carolina, ↑Palmetto State, ↑SC, ↑Tennessee, ↑Volunteer State, ↑TN, ↑Texas, ↑Lone-Star State, ↑TX, ↑Virginia, ↑Old Dominion, ↑Old Dominion State, ↑VA
• Part Meronyms: ↑slave state
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the eleven southern states of the US which left the United States in 1860-1, starting the American Civil War
Culture:
The President of the Confederate States was Jefferson Davis and their capital city was first ↑Montgomery, ↑Alabama, and later ↑Richmond, ↑Virginia. The Confederate States, in their order of leaving the Union, were ↑South Carolina, ↑Mississippi, ↑Florida, Alabama, ↑Georgia, ↑Louisiana, ↑Texas, Virginia, ↑Arkansas, ↑Tennessee and ↑North Carolina.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.