Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mid-South (region)

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The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 16:36, 27 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mid-South (region)

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Not a well-defined subject. The only source cited does not use the term. Maproom (talk) 21:22, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. I have added a source that does use the term (and, in fact, is a 900+ page book titled "The Mid-South and Its Builders: Being the Story of the Development and a Forecast of the Future of the Richest Agricultural Region in the World"). A quick Google Books search returns tens of thousand of books discussing the region by name, including many focused entirely on it (e.g., Eugene R. Kuhne, A Guide to the Fishes of Tennessee and the Mid-south (1939); Mississippi State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Soil Temperatures and Cotton Planting in the Mid-South (1964); Ronald Register, ‎Stanley Hyland, Black social institutions in the Mid-South: a dialogue between Demitri Shimkin and Nkosi Ajanaku (1978); Arlo I. Smith, A Guide to Wildflowers of the Mid-South: West Tennessee Into Central Arkansas and South Through Alabama and Into East Texas (1979); James R. Veteto, ‎Edward M. Maclin, The Slaw and the Slow Cooked: Culture and Barbecue in the Mid-South (2012)). bd2412 T 21:54, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep No WP:BEFORE conducted, clearly widely mentioned in books. —DIYeditor (talk) 23:45, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It's the main second descriptive nickname of the Memphis region; it's all over the place there. WP:BEFORE. Do it. I'm sick of these 'never heard of it or using Google' noms. Nate • (chatter) 01:09, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Well-known region by its inhabitants. WhatsUpWorld (talk) 04:34, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Well-known by regional inhabitants.--IndyNotes (talk) 04:50, 21 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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