Upland South

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The Upland South and Upper South are two overlapping cultural and geographic subregions in the inland part of the Southern United States. They differ from the Deep South and Atlantic coastal plain by terrain, history, economics, demographics, and settlement patterns. The term Upper South is a geographic term, generally consisting of the Southern states that are geographically north of the Lower or Deep South, primarily Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Oklahoma and to a lesser extent the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Delaware. The Upland South does not neatly conform to state boundaries. Combining boundaries of the region proposed by several scholars, Jordan-Bychkov describes the Upland South as a region which "stretches from the Fall Line, at the inner margin of the Atlantic coastal plain, through southern Appalachia, across the Ohio River into southern Indiana and Illinois, where it is very nearly severed in two at the isthmus of the Shawnee Hills...

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