Empire State of the South

Popular name: The Empire State of the South.

Georgia is known as the Peach State and the Empire State of the South.

"It's a very sad thing when the empire state of the South and the empire state of the North decide to discriminate on the same day."

Yet the marshes remained, protected in part by statute of the Empire State of the South, that the live-oak might retain its ancestral home, and perhaps too the Cherokee rose.