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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of the 15 states of the Union in which slavery was legal before the Civil War, including Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
  • noun A nation under totalitarian rule.

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