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southerners

The correct spelling is southerners.

How to pronounce southerners

noun

Say it like: Sow-the-rne-rs

The correct spelling is southerners. Someone from one of the states which seceded in 1861 and briefly formed the Confederate States of America, or, more broadly, from some neighboring states as well (but excluding…

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Definition

noun

  1. 1.Someone from one of the states which seceded in 1861 and briefly formed the Confederate States of America, or, more broadly, from some neighboring states as well (but excluding geographically-southerly states like Arizona); compare the South.
  2. 2.A native or inhabitant of the south of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as the United Kingdom.

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