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  1. Historically, in the USA, the states south of
  2. the Mason-Dixon line, with an agrarian
  3. economy based on plantations worked by
  4. slaves, which seceded from the Union at the
  5. beginning of the US Civil War, becoming the
  6. Confederacy. The term is now loosely applied
  7. in a geographic and cultural sense, with
  8. Texas often regarded as part of the Southwest
  9. rather than the South.
  10.