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 WarAlabama, Camellia State, ALbattle of Chickamauga, Chickamauga - a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forcesU.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 1776Gulf States - a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and TexasConfederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, Dixie, Dixieland, South - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861South - the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon lineDeep 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 slaverycapital of Alabama, Montgomery - the state capital of Alabama on the Mobile RiverBirmingham, Pittsburgh of the South - the largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern AlabamaDecatur - a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee RiverGadsden - an industrial town in north central AlabamaHuntsville - a city in northern Alabama; center for space researchMobile - a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile BaySelma - a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black votersTuscaloosa - a university town in west central AlabamaTuskegee - a town in eastern AlabamaAlabama 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 RiverCoosa, 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 RiverMobile, Mobile River - a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile BayMobile Bay - a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile RiverTallapoosa, 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 RiverTombigbee, 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