# Upper South

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. The northern part of the South (Southern United States), typically consisting of North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma, sometimes also inclusive of southern Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, eastern/southern/western Maryland, and southern Delaware.
2. In the American Civil War, those Confederate states which did not secede until after Fort Sumter: Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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