Heart of Dixie - a state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil WarGulf States - a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas Deep South - the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery Decatur - a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River Gadsden - an industrial town in north central Alabama Huntsville - a city in northern Alabama; center for space research Mobile - a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay Selma - a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters Tuscaloosa - a university town in west central Alabama Alabama River, Alabama - a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River Coosa, Coosa River - river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River Mobile Bay - a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River Tallapoosa, Tallapoosa River - river that rieses in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River Tombigbee, Tombigbee River - a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River |