Empire State of the South

English Etymology After the Empire State, and in reference to Georgia's industrialization following the American Civil War. Proper noun Empire State of the South 1 en @nickname for:Georgia state c/USA. en 1950 Georgia Department of Commerce Georgia: The Empire State of the South en 2012 James M. Beeby Populism in the South Revisited: New Interpretations and New Departures Univ. Press of Mississippi 9781617032332 For, as can be clearly seen in the case of Georgia, the “Empire State of the South, ” the Knights fought the South's entrenched “Bourbon Democracy” in near isolation between the mid-1880s and early 1890s. While the Knights' efforts not ... See also en Peach State