1. those with an average high summer temperature of 90 degrees
   those that fought with the Confederacy in the Civil War
2. those that look red on infrared scanners

The South is generally defined as the states that fought with the Confederacy in the Civil War. But the lines between what constitute the South are not perfectly defined.

1. West Virginia
   Iowa
2. South Carolina

Iowa is not part of the South. As defined by the federal government, there are 16 states in the South, ranging from Alabama to Tennessee to Maryland, plus the District of Columbia.

1. Rust Belt
   Bible Belt
2. chastity belt

The South is often noted as a heavily religious area known as the "Bible Belt." It’s home to many Protestant churches and is famous for its Baptist denominations.

1. dry and cold
   hot and humid
2. extremely cold and snowy

North Dakotans pray for quick deaths in the South. In the summer, the South is always hot, and particularly in the southeastern areas it’s humid, too.

1. combines
   seeds
2. labor

In the 1600s, farmers had no shortage of arable land in the South. Their problem was a shortage of labor... and the remedy to that challenge became a dark part of America’s history.

1. cotton
   wheat
2. milo

With its warm, humid climate, the South is a very good place to grow cotton. From old-time plantations to modern farms, cotton is a major Southern product.

1. Democrats and Republicans
   free and slave states
2. Waffle House and non-Waffle House states

In the years before the Civil War, the Mason-Dixon Line was the rough boundary between free and slave states. The iine is still used as shorthand in defining modern mentalities and cultures in America.

1. Alabama
   Georgia
2. New Mexico

States in the western part of the country might be "south," but they aren’t a part of the traditional South. So New Mexico wouldn’t be included.

1. laws that restrict the number of Waffle Houses in any given neighborhood
   laws meant to enforce segregation
2. laws that control highway speed limits

The Emancipation Proclamation may have outlawed slavery, but "Jim Crow" laws kept the spirit of segregation alive in the South, separating the lives of blacks and whites in many aspects of life.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

Texans don’t like to be associated with the United States at all...but as it stands, the state is definitely part of the South. The U.S. Census defines it as such.

1. The Confederacy
   Swampland USA
2. Dixie

The South is often called Dixie or Dixieland. Dixie is often associated with the Confederate years, but historians have never actually pinpointed the source of the term. It definitely has nothing to do with those cute little paper cups.

1. the southeast
   the southwest
2. the northwest

The Deep South is the very southeast part of America. It’s where the Confederacy (and its lingering mentality) took its strongest hold.

1. the Small South
   the Gulf South
2. the Western South

The Gulf South refers to those Southern states that border the Gulf of Mexico. If you don’t like humidity, don’t wander through the Gulf south in July.

1. Tampa Bay
   Nashville
2. Houston

Houston, Texas, is the biggest city in the South. Its metro population is more than 6.3 million people.

1. about 300,000
   about 4 million
2. about 20 million

All across the South, slavery was the solution to the plantation labor problem. Before the war, 4 million slaves were held by their masters.

1. the years following the Civil War
   the years of the Civil Rights movement
2. the years after JFK’s assassination

In the horrific wake of the Civil War, many parts of the South were devastated. Reconstruction refers to the era in which the country was rebuilt and lasted until 1877.

1. 4
   11
2. 24

Eleven states seceded from the Union and ignited the Civil War. Abe Lincoln could only shake his head in dismay as he called upon Union troops to restore the Republic.

1. Civilization was entirely gone.
   impoverished
2. fairly good quality of life

Following the devastation of the war, the South was a poor and sad place. Many people lived in poverty, with no real means to make better lives.

1. about 60,000
   about 10,000
2. about 1 million

It’s one of America’s saddest eras. Starting in the 1820s and up until the 1850s, about 1 million blacks were moved to the South for the purpose of slavery. That did not count many others who were already there.

1. about 2 months
   about 12 months
2. about 6 months

With its warm climate and good soils, the South is a farmer’s land. The growing season can last as long as six months in some areas.

1. sorghum
   textiles
2. corn

Cotton and its associated textiles were a way for the South to rebuild from the war. But the process took decades, not really impacting quality of life much until the 1930s.

1. Korean War
   WWII
2. Great Depression

In the 1930s, America and the rest of the world spiraled into the Great Depression. The South’s recovery was once again stalled as America grappled with the crisis.

1. True
2. False

It’s true, America’s legendary George Washington was born in Virginia and learned many of his political and military skills in the region.

1. “Yeehaw, man!"
   “you all"
2. "Yikes, I need hush puppies!"

The Southern United States has a distinct dialect and lingo, including the classic, "y’all," which simply means "you all," or "I packed the Confederate flag away in grandpa’s chest but I’ll hang it again... someday."

1. True
2. False

Officially, and by federal definition, Missouri is part of the Midwest. But have you been to southern Missouri? Take a little day trip there and you’ll realize that it is definitely, absolutely part of the South.

1. Texas
   North Carolina
2. Florida

The hills and plains of North Carolina are well-suited to tobacco production. In fact, North Carolina produces twice as much tobacco as any other state.

1. French fries
   corn meal
2. No one knows, really.

Grits are a staple of Southern cuisine, a type of corn meal that is utterly delicious when properly prepared and inedible when it isn’t.

1. tobacco
   sugar, so much sugar
2. cocaine

In the South, iced tea is sweet tea, loaded with immense piles of granulated sugar. Use it to wash down all of the fried foods you’ll be eating in Arkansas. Then proceed straight to your dentist's office, because you'll have cavities.

1. following WWII
   right after the Civil War
2. It never did.

Sure, the Civil War ended slavery... but it didn’t end the era of whites lording over blacks in every possible way. It wasn’t until after WWII (in the 1940s) that cultural shifts in the South began to soften white domination.

1. African-Americans
   German-Americans
2. Russians

Soul food is the hearty cuisine that’s distinctively a part of Southern African-American culture. Collard greens are soul food -- Waffle House is not.