Inland South is consists most parts of southern states of the U.S.: Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, northern and middle Mississippi, Kentucky, Arkansas, southern Missouri, northern Louisiana, eastern Oklahoma, and eastern Texas. Georgia is the largest state and Atlanta is largest city in inland south. Atlanta is not only as host city for CNN, other television corporation such as The Weather Channel also choose Atlanta as host city.
Landform of Inland South contains Atlantic Coastal Plain, hilly eastern by Appalachian mountians , North American central lowland on center, and independent mountains of Ozark and Ouachita. Climate of the south is hot and humid due Maritime tropical air mass. No dry season. Abundant precipitation causes flash flood occur often.
Unlike nothern states, Inland South very dependent on agriculture. Cotton, tobacco and sugar were economical crops for the south. Cotton cultivation was majority export to europe for the south and it was heavily dependent on manpower so the south has rooted with slavery until Civil War.
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