Heart of Dixie

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Heart of Dixie - a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War Alabama, Camellia State, AL battle of Chickamauga, Chickamauga - a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 Gulf States - a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 South - the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line Deep South - the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery capital of Alabama, Montgomery - the state capital of Alabama on the Mobile River Birmingham, Pittsburgh of the South - the largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama Decatur - a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River Gadsden - an industrial town in north central Alabama Huntsville - a city in northern Alabama; center for space research Mobile - a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay Selma - a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters Tuscaloosa - a university town in west central Alabama Tuskegee - a town in eastern Alabama Alabama River, Alabama - a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River Coosa, Coosa River - river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River Mobile, Mobile River - a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay Mobile Bay - a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River Tallapoosa, Tallapoosa River - river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River Tombigbee, Tombigbee River - a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River