Meanings
- Nickname for Georgia: a state of the United States.
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 ...
2012, James M. Beeby, Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN
Origin
After the Empire State, and in reference to Georgia's industrialization following the American Civil War.
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Empire State of the South. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Empire%20State%20of%20the%20South
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