Empire State of the South
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]After the Empire State, and in reference to Georgia's industrialization following the American Civil War.
Proper noun
[edit]- A nickname for the state of Georgia in the United States of America.
- 1950, Georgia Department of Commerce, Georgia: The Empire State of the South:
- 2012, James M. Beeby, Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN:
- For, as can be clearly seen in the case of Georgia, the “Empire State of the South, ” the Knights fought the South's entrenched “Bourbon Democracy” in near isolation between the mid-1880s and early 1890s. While the Knights' efforts not ...