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| | South, the - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about South, the (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Historically, the states of the USA bounded on the north by the Mason–Dixon Line, the Ohio River, and the eastern and northern borders of Missouri, with an agrarian economy based on plantations worked by slaves, and which, as the Confederacy, seceded from the Union in 1861, beginning the American Civil War. |
 | | The countries of the developing world are sometimes referred to as the South; see North–South divide. |
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