South

nouns

the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line
is a part of
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 1776
is an instance of (narrower)
a demarcated area of the Earth
is an attribute of
in or characteristic of a region of the United States south of (approximately) the Mason-Dixon line
"southern hospitality"; "southern cooking"; "southern plantations"
the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861