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Gulf States

noun

A region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas.

The countries in southwestern Asia that border the Persian Gulf.

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"Gulf states" Quotes from Famous Books

... would invest Spain with the right to exercise the supervision recognized by our treaty of 1795 over our commerce on the high seas, a very large part of which, in its traffic between the Atlantic and the Gulf States and between all of them and the States on the Pacific, passes through the waters which wash the shores of Cuba. The exercise of this supervision could scarce fail to lead, if not to abuses, certainly to collisions ...

— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents • William McKinley

... breeding in the United States locally from Texas and the Gulf States northward to the northern ...

— The Bird Book • Chester A. Reed

... proportion of farms owned by their occupants in the New England and Middle Atlantic states, and in a large part of the West; but the increase in these parts was more than overbalanced by the decrease in the South Atlantic and Gulf states and in the Mississippi Valley. The smallest proportion of farm tenancy is found in New England (8%), and the largest in the southern states (45.9% in the South Atlantic states, and more than 50% in the South central states). A large ...

— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn