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Upland South

The Upland South and Upper South are two overlapping cultural and geographic subregions in the inland part of the Southern United States. They differ from the Deep South and Atlantic coastal plain by terrain, history, economics, demographics, and settlement patterns.

Not to be confused with Southern Uplands.

The term Upper South is a geographic term: the Southern states that are geographically north of the Lower or Deep South, primarily Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee, and to a lesser extent the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri.[1][2]


The Upland South is defined by elevation above sea level; it is west of the population centers on the east coast. It has its own history and culture.[3] It includes West Virginia and Kentucky, most of Tennessee, and parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Arkansas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Oklahoma. Upland South outposts were settled along the shores of the Ohio River.

Albion's Seed

Appalachia

Appalachian English

Appalachian music

Bluegrass music

Border states

Moonshine

Mountain whites

(bootlegging)

Rum-running

Southern American English

Southwest Territory

Wilderness Road

Drake, Richard B. A History of Appalachia. : University of Kentucky Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8131-2169-8.

Lexington

Jordan-Bychkov, Terry G. The Upland South: The Making of an American Folk Region and Landscape. : U of Virginia P, 2003. ISBN 1-930066-08-2.

Harrisonburg

The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 1: Atlantic America, 1492–1800. New Haven: Yale University Press: 1986. ISBN 0-300-03882-8.

Meinig, D. W.

The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 2: Continental America, 1800–1867. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-300-05658-3.

Meinig, D. W.

The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 3: Transcontinental America, 1850–1915. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-300-08290-8.

Meinig, D. W.

The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 4: Global America, 1915–2000. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-300-10432-4.

Meinig, D. W.

Williams, John Alexander. Appalachia: A History. : University of North Carolina Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8078-5368-2.

Charlotte

Zelinsky, Wilbur. The Cultural Geography of the United States. : Prentice-Hall, 1973.

Upper Saddle River