Sentence:  Time 's editor , Thomas Griffith , in his book , The Waist High Culture , wrote : `` most of what was different about it ( the <WSD>Deep</WSD> South ) I found myself unsympathetic to '' . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  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