People born in this region, known as the Deep South ... More than 20% of the U.S. African American population lives in the Deep South. Risk of late-onset AD is twice as high in African Americans. This ...

Today, the term Black Belt generally encompasses a stretch of counties from Virginia down through the Deep South and including ... so these very regions also make up America's so-called Fruit ...

Woodard calls the ethnically diverse Midlands "America's great swing region." Within the Midlands ... It sides with the Deep South to counter the influence of federal government.