id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7295 Deep South - Wikipedia .html text/html 4486 460 70 This was considered to extend from eastern North Carolina to South Carolina and through the Gulf States as far west as East Texas, and including those parts of western Tennessee and eastern Arkansas in the Mississippi embayment.[7] Some of this is coterminous with the Black Belt, a term used for much of the Cotton Belt, which had a high percentage of African-American slave labor. Studies of the Civil Rights Movement often highlight the region.[citation needed] Thus in 2012 political scientist Seth McKee concluded that in the 1964 presidential election, "Once again, the high level of support for Goldwater in the Deep South, and especially their Black Belt counties, spoke to the enduring significance of white resistance to black progress." [8] When "Deep South" first began to gain mainstream currency in print in the middle of the 20th century, it applied to the states and areas of Georgia, southern Alabama, northern Florida, Mississippi, northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and eastern Texas, all historically areas of cotton plantations and slavery.[9] This was the part of the South many considered the "most Southern".[10] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7295.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7295.txt