Empire State of the South

English

Etymology

After the Empire State, and in reference to Georgia's industrialization following the American Civil War.

Proper noun

Empire State of the South

1. 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 ...

See also

• Peach State