Old South

This article is about the geographic region. For the orange juice brand, see Old South (orange juice).
Regional definitions vary from source to source. Geographically, the states shown in dark red are usually included, though their modern boundaries differ from the boundaries when a part of the Thirteen Colonies. Those borders are shown on the map.[1]

Geographically, the U.S. states known as the Old South are those in the Southern United States that were among the original Thirteen Colonies. The region term is differentiated from the Deep South and Upper South.

From a cultural and social standpoint, the "Old South" is used to describe the rural, agriculturally-based, slavery-reliant economy and society in the Antebellum South, prior to the American Civil War (1861–65),[2] in contrast to the "New South" of the post-Reconstruction Era.

  1. ^ "File:United States Central map 1784-03-01 to 1784-05-12.png - Wikipedia". commons.wikimedia.org. August 29, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  2. ^ "United States - Old South to New South".