1Any of the states of the southern US of which cotton is or was a major product.
棉花州（美国南部任何盛产棉花的州）
Example sentencesExamples
Even after Lincoln's election and the secession of the cotton states, many Virginians remained doubtful about the desirability of Southern independence.
Two factors in particular shaped the clashing societies of the cotton states - the origins of the settlers and the patterns of the regional economy.
The result of these links between the Upper South and the northern part of the cotton states was an overland trade that expanded markedly in the years before secession.
South Carolina was the oldest of the cotton states and the first to experience soil depletion.
Observers also noted the correlation between this trade and divisions within the cotton states.
Virginia secessionists and their cotton state allies, after all, would have to make concrete predictions about the economic vitality of the Confederacy.
Yet one incontrovertible fact set him decidedly apart from the rabid cotton state defenders of the peculiar institution.
Yet Missourians refrained from adopting the language of division emanating with increasing volume from the cotton states.
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a name for Alabama
Definition of cotton state in US English:
cotton state
noun
informal
1Any of the states of the southern US of which cotton is or was a major product.
棉花州（美国南部任何盛产棉花的州）
Example sentencesExamples
South Carolina was the oldest of the cotton states and the first to experience soil depletion.
Even after Lincoln's election and the secession of the cotton states, many Virginians remained doubtful about the desirability of Southern independence.
Virginia secessionists and their cotton state allies, after all, would have to make concrete predictions about the economic vitality of the Confederacy.
The result of these links between the Upper South and the northern part of the cotton states was an overland trade that expanded markedly in the years before secession.
Two factors in particular shaped the clashing societies of the cotton states - the origins of the settlers and the patterns of the regional economy.
Yet one incontrovertible fact set him decidedly apart from the rabid cotton state defenders of the peculiar institution.
Observers also noted the correlation between this trade and divisions within the cotton states.
Yet Missourians refrained from adopting the language of division emanating with increasing volume from the cotton states.