re: If you had to draw on a map where does the "deep south" end/begin?

Geographically it’s

Deep South:
East Tx, LA, MS, AL, GA, SC, North FL

Mid South:
AR, TN, NC, East OK

Upper South:
KY, MO, VA

Culturally it’s
South: Tx, Ok, Mo, Ky, Va, NC, Fl
Deep South: SC, GA, MS, AL, LA, AR, TN

Before yall try to say Eastern OK isn’t southern, go spend some time there. It’s culturally very similar to Arkansas and western Tn. Much different than the rest of OK.

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Deep south is LA, MS, AL, GA, and SC.

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I might add north FL as well but won’t argue too much with this.

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Tennessee isn't deep south

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Tell that to them Pulaski boys.

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After the war, in late 1865, six Tennessee veterans of the Confederate Army founded a secret society, later known as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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I am pretty sure the deep south is Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia.

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I've always said Lake Charles to Pensacola, the I-10 corridor is its own cultural state. aka the Gulf Coast.

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It is just a matter of looking at folkways. Areas are settled from water, usually coast, in. The upper and lower South are both traced back to early westward migration from the original 13. The Gulf Coast was settled by the French and Spanish. Cultural influence and commerce was connected to the Caribbean instead of Europe. New Orleans and south Louisiana adds another layer of complexity from migration.

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Deep south is LA, MS, AL, GA, and SC.

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There’s plenty of Baws in East Texas.

I was born and raised in middle Georgia. Been living in Florida for 3 years



Florida is not Deep South.

Areas were it rarely, if ever, snows - excluding South Florida and South Texas which have been colonized by "invasive species" so as to eradicate the indigenous redneck ecosystem.

It still is to an extent, but there has been, and continues to be, a considerable amount of interstate migration into ETX from the west. Give it 5-10 years and it's likely no longer "deep south"