Dirty South

Dirty South
 n.— «“I’m from the Dirty South,” Hood quipped, in reference to the term now applied to rap music coming from this region.» —“‘Dirty South’ with a different sort of twang” by Keith Ryan Cartwright Tennessean (Nashville) July 16, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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Blessing Box (episode #1613)

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