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Definition of cotton state in English: cotton statenoun informal 1Any of the states of the southern US of which cotton is or was a major product. Example sentencesExamples - Even after Lincoln's election and the secession of the cotton states, many Virginians remained doubtful about the desirability of Southern independence.
- Two factors in particular shaped the clashing societies of the cotton states - the origins of the settlers and the patterns of the regional economy.
- The result of these links between the Upper South and the northern part of the cotton states was an overland trade that expanded markedly in the years before secession.
- South Carolina was the oldest of the cotton states and the first to experience soil depletion.
- Observers also noted the correlation between this trade and divisions within the cotton states.
- Virginia secessionists and their cotton state allies, after all, would have to make concrete predictions about the economic vitality of the Confederacy.
- Yet one incontrovertible fact set him decidedly apart from the rabid cotton state defenders of the peculiar institution.
- Yet Missourians refrained from adopting the language of division emanating with increasing volume from the cotton states.
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Definition of cotton state in US English: cotton statenoun informal 1Any of the states of the southern US of which cotton is or was a major product. Example sentencesExamples - South Carolina was the oldest of the cotton states and the first to experience soil depletion.
- Even after Lincoln's election and the secession of the cotton states, many Virginians remained doubtful about the desirability of Southern independence.
- Virginia secessionists and their cotton state allies, after all, would have to make concrete predictions about the economic vitality of the Confederacy.
- The result of these links between the Upper South and the northern part of the cotton states was an overland trade that expanded markedly in the years before secession.
- Two factors in particular shaped the clashing societies of the cotton states - the origins of the settlers and the patterns of the regional economy.
- Yet one incontrovertible fact set him decidedly apart from the rabid cotton state defenders of the peculiar institution.
- Observers also noted the correlation between this trade and divisions within the cotton states.
- Yet Missourians refrained from adopting the language of division emanating with increasing volume from the cotton states.
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