Pelican State

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Pelican State - a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil WarLouisiana, LAU.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 slaveryAlexandria - a town in Louisiana on the Red RiverBaton Rouge, capital of Louisiana - capital of LouisianaLafayette - a town in south central Louisiana; settled by AcadiansMonroe - a town in north central LouisianaMorgan City - a town in southeast Louisiana to the south of Baton RougeNew Orleans - a port and largest city in Louisiana; located in southeastern Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi river; a major center for offshore drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico; jazz originated here among black musicians in the late 19th century; Mardi Gras is celebrated here each yearShreveport - a city in northwest Louisiana on the Red River near the Texas borderOuachita, Ouachita River - a river that rises in western Arkansas and flows southeast into eastern Louisiana to become a tributary of the Red RiverRed River, Red - a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana