While most of the SE is classified as humid, temperatures vary widely across the regions, with a transition from tropical rainforests in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands to temperate forests in the southern Appalachian Mountains.

This region of the U.S. is known for its hot and humid subtropical weather where there are long summers and short, mild, winters. However, some parts of this region have other climates, like temperate four-season climates or even arid, desert-like climates.

The Encyclopædia Britannica defines the Upper South as the states of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Despite these differences, the two terms, Upland South and Upper South, refer to the same general region—the northern part of the American South—and are frequently used synonymously.

The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States. The term was first used to describe the states most dependent on plantations and chattel slavery during the early period of United States history.

The Deep South is the core of the South. Needless to say, it has more remnants of Southern culture, even despite new comers. So it has less influence by other regions. If you get up into the very upper portions of the South- such as Northern Virginia, the Southern culture is really wavering there .

Chicago and Detroit are both Midwestern cities. Memphis is a Southern city.

The Mid-South is an informally-defined region of the United States, usually thought to be anchored by the Memphis metropolitan area and consisting of West Tennessee, North Mississippi, Southern Missouri, Western Kentucky, Central, Northeast, and Northwest Arkansas, Northwest Alabama and even Eastern Oklahoma.

The Upper South contained large areas where the plantation system had not taken hold. As such, a different culture and economic society took place.

No. The “Deep South”, traditionally, is Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Florida is a land of its own.

The “Deep South”, like any other cultural identity, is not restricted by state lines… I’d say the Deep South, from the west, includes the Dallas and Houston areas of Texas.

The Deep South is not only famous for country, blues and jazz music, but also for their hospitality and delicious food. This region includes the Appalachian Mountains, Tennessee, New Orleans, Memphis and of course Nashville; the country music capital of the world.

In this map, Houston sits inside the western arm of the nation of “Deep South”. In Woodward’s classification, the nation of “Deep South” is characterized by “a rigid social structure and opposition to government regulation.”

The Lower South was a land of cotton and slavery, a land dominated economically by the plantation agriculture. In contrast, the Upper south was primarily the domain of slaveless yeoman farmers, an area largely devoid of cotton and other subtropical cash crops.

By 1860, the Deep South and Upper South remained agricultural, but each region concentrated on different crops. The Upper South grew more tobacco, hemp, wheat, and vegetables. The Deep South produced more cotton, as well as rice and sugarcane.

In the upper South, where slavery was less prominent and association with the North more pervasive, opposition to immediate secession was even stronger. States like Virginia, Tennessee, and Arkansas took a wait-and-see attitude, sometimes calling for a convention, sometimes rejecting demands.

West Virginia became the 35th state on June 20, 1863, and the last slave state admitted to the Union. Eighteen months later, the West Virginia legislature completely abolished slavery, and also ratified the 13th Amendment on February 3, 1865.

When the war began with the firing on Fort Sumter (April 12, 1861), they were joined by four states of the upper South (Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia).