re: Which States are in the Deep South?

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In case you haven't heard, TX is a whole 'nother country. Don't want anything to do with the South.

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The feeling is mutual.

The Cotton Capital of the world is in Tennessee.

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I tried to shade the areas more 'deep South's darker red.

But Mark up on my iPhone isn't my forte

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I figured that's what you were doing, but I'd shift the deepest red to the right

I had a boss from Virginia. He used to say that everything north of Richmond were Yankees.

Everything south and east of Arkansas. Arkansas is considered the northwest corner of the "deep South" IMHO.

Those of you not including The Natural State must not have been there. Arkansas is about as typical deep South as it gets.

Louisiana - south
Mississippi - south
Alabama - south
Georgia - south
South Carolina - somewhat south
North Carolina - somewhat south
Kentucky - south
Virginia - not like it used to be
West Virginia - trash can
Arkansas - midwest

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In case you haven't heard, TX is a whole 'nother country. Don't want anything to do with the South.

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Texas is south but not the Old South. Since it was the frontier and then a country and then joined the US in 1846, it is definitely not the Old South. Reading James Michener's Texas, poor Texicans were getting slaughtered by Comanches and Mexicans while everyone in the Old South was growing cotton and building plantations.

Anything north of Shreveport isn't deep South.

It’s pretty southern in the surrounding Jacksonville to Tallahassee area down to Ocala, then it stops there.

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Virginia is in the south, but hell no to Maryland

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Maryland used to be considered the South. Was a Chesapeake slave state but drifted culturally and economically toward the mid Atlantic states by the early 20th century or so.

North Virginia has basically done the same thing by the early 21st. Hit the hill country in Va, though, and you're in baw-land