Southern States

Southern States may refer to:

  • Southern United States
  • Southern States Cooperative
  • The independent states of the South in the North-South divide
  • The independent states of the Southern hemisphere

Famous quotes containing the words southern states, southern and/or states:

    “... so far from thinking that a slaveholder is bound by the immoral and unconstitutional laws of the Southern States, we hold that he is solemnly bound as a man, as an American, to break them, and that immediately and openly ...”
    —Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

    “I sometimes wonder that we can be so frivolous ... as to attend to the gross but somewhat foreign form of servitude called Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both north and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)