Mien Nam Hoa Ky (tieng Anh: Southern United States) con đuoc biet pho bien nhu American South, Dixie, Down South hay đon gian la the South—bao gom mot vung lon ro ret nam trong đong nam va trung-nam Hoa Ky. Vi di san lich su va van hoa đoc đao cua vung gom co nguoi ban tho My; cac khu đinh cu chau Au xua kia co vet tich di san Tay Ban Nha, Anh Quoc, Phap; tam quan trong cua hang ngan nguoi no le chau Phi; su gia tang ti le dan so lon nguoi My goc chau Phi, su le thuoc vao suc lao đong no le, va di san cua Lien minh mien Nam sau Noi chien Hoa Ky nen mien Nam Hoa Ky đa hinh thanh nen phong tuc, the loai am nhac, van chuong, va am thuc rieng biet cho minh.
Trong vai thap nien vua qua, mien Nam đa tro nen cong nghiep hoa va đo thi hoa hon, hap dan di dan quoc te va noi đia. Khi nhieu phan cua mien Nam nam trong so cac khu vuc phat trien nhanh nhat tai Hoa Ky thi chung cung phat trien nen van hoa moi.


Đia ly Nhu đinh nghia cua Cuc đieu tra dan so Hoa Ky, vung Nam Hoa Ky gom co 16 tieu bang va Đac khu Columbia. Dan so tong cong cho vung đuoc uoc tinh la 109.083.752 nguoi vao nam 2006. Ba muoi sau phan tram dan so Hoa Ky song trong vung Nam Hoa Ky. Vung đong dan nhat cua quoc gia. Cuc đieu tra dan so phan chia vung nay thanh ba đon vi nho hon hay con goi la phan vung:

Cac tieu bang Nam Đai Tay Duong: Florida, Georgia, Bac Carolina, Nam Carolina, Virginia, Tay Virginia, Maryland, Washington, D.C., va Delaware
Cac tieu bang Trung Đong Nam: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi va Tennessee
Cac tieu bang Trung Tay Nam:  Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma va Texas
Cac thuat tu khac co lien quan đen mien Nam gom co:

Old South: thuong la cac thuoc đia ban đau o mien nam: Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Georgia, Bac Carolina, va Nam Carolina.
New South: thuong bao gom cac tieu bang Nam Đai Tay Duong.
Solid South: vung do Đang Dan chu kiem soat tu nam 1877 đen nam 1964. Bao gom it nhat tat ca 11 cuu tieu bang trong Lien minh mien Nam.
Nam Appalachia: Cao nguyen Cumberland cua Kentucky va Tennessee, Nam Ohio, Tay Bac Carolina, Tay Maryland, Tay Virginia, Thung lung Shenandoah va Day nui Blue Ridge cua Virginia, va đong bac Georgia.
Đong Nam Hoa Ky: thuong bao gom Bac Carolina, Nam Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Tay Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, va Florida
Deep South: co nhieu đinh nghia khac nhau, thuong bao gom Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, va Nam Carolina. Đoi khi nhung phan đat cua cac tieu bang ke can đuoc tinh vao (mot phan Đong Texas, cac khu vuc chau tho Arkansas va Tennessee, va cac phan đat cua Florida nhu vung can chao va trung bac cua tieu bang).
Gulf South: co nhieu đinh nghia, thuong bao gom cac vung duyen hai Vinh Mexico cua Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas va Alabama.
Upper South: Kentucky, Virginia, Tay Virginia, Tennessee, va Bac Carolina.
Dixie: co nhieu đinh nghia, nhung thong thuong nhat co lien he voi 11 tieu bang thuoc Cuu Lien minh mien Nam.
Trung Nam: cung con đuoc biet la Trung Nam Hoa Ky.
Border South: Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, va Delaware la cac tieu bang khong ly khai khoi Hoa Ky đe gia nhap Lien minh mien Nam. Tay Virginia đuoc thanh lap boi nhung nguoi o phia tay Virginia chong đoi viec ly khai khoi Lien bang.
Đinh nghia pho bien nhat ve thuat tu "Mien Nam" thi khong chinh thuc lam va thuong co lien quan voi viec cac tieu bang ly khai trong Noi chien Hoa Ky đe thanh lap Lien minh mien Nam. Cac tieu bang nay chia se chung lich su va van hoa ma van con hien huu cho đen ngay nay.
Ve mat tu nhien, mien Nam la mot vung đa dang va rong lon co nhieu vung khi hau gom co khi hau on hoa, can nhiet đoi, nhiet đoi va kho can – mac du mien Nam thuong đuoc xem la nong va am uot co mua he dai va mua đong on hoa ngan, nhung no kha am ap hon cac vung phia bac cua no (va thuong thuong co cac chi so nong cao nhat quoc gia). Nhieu thu cay trong phat trien de dang tren đat va co the phat trien ma khong so gia ret it nhat la sau thang trong nam. Mot so khu vuc trong mien Nam, đac biet la Đong nam, co quang canh thien nhien phong phu voi su hien dien cua nhieu loai cay co nhu cay soi, moc lan. Moi truong pho bien khac cua Nam Hoa Ky la bayou va đam lay cua Duyen hai Vinh Mexico, đac biet tai Louisiana va Texas. Mien Nam la nan nhan cua loai cay leo kudzu, phat trien rat nhanh bao phu phan lon đat va giet chet cac loai thao moc khac. Kudzu la van nan lon đac biet la tai nhung vung duoi chan đoi cua Mississippi, Alabama, va Georgia.


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Richard N. Current (1987). American History: A Survey 7th ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-31549-9.
Flynt, J. Wayne Dixie's Forgotten People: The South's Poor Whites (1979). deals with 20th century.
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James Grossman (1996). "Chicago and the 'Great Migration'". Illinois History Teacher. Quyen 3 so 2. Ban goc luu tru ngay 3 thang 9 nam 2006. Truy cap ngay 5 thang 8 nam 2009.
Grady McWhiney. In Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South (1988)
Mary Odem "Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta'" Luu tru ngay 24 thang 8 nam 2007 tai Wayback Machine Southern Spaces 2006
John O. Allen and Clayton E. Jewett (2004). Slavery in the South: A State-by-State History. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-32019-5.
Rayford Logan (1997). The Betrayal of the Negro from Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80758-0.
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George Sanchez "Latinos, the American South, and the Future of U.S. Race Relations Luu tru ngay 24 thang 8 nam 2007 tai Wayback Machine" Southern Spaces 2007
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Winders, Jamie. "Latino Migration and Nashville, Tennessee, Luu tru ngay 27 thang 9 nam 2007 tai Wayback Machine" Southern Spaces 2004.
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Lien ket ngoai DocSouth: Documenting the American South - numerous online text, image, and audio collections
Center for the Study of the American South Luu tru ngay 16 thang 10 nam 2007 tai Wayback Machine - an academic center devoted to the study of "southern history, literature, and culture as well as ongoing social, political, and economic issues"
Dixie's dead, long live the South
Southern Arts Federation
Southern Spaces—an open-access peer-reviewed scholarly journal examining the spaces and places of the American South.