Georgia is called "The Empire State of the South".
The state with the nickname Empire State of the South is Georgia. The other nickname for Georgia is the Peach State.
The state that is known as 'Empire State of the South' is Georgia.
Georgia receives that accolade.
Georgia is best known as The Peach State - other nicknames for Georgia: The Goober State and The Empire State of the South.
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The Peach State and The Empire State of the South.
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Nicknames for Georgia include the Empire State of the South, the Peach State, the Goober State and the Buzzard state.
The Empire State Building once used to be the tallest building but now the one in Dubai is the biggest.
The Empire State Building is 424 ft (129.2 m) east-west by 187 ft (57.0 m) north-south.
Bradley R. Rice and Harvey H. Jackson said in their 1988 book, Georgia, the Empire State of the South, "Even before the Civil War, proud boosters hoping for industrialization to complement the slave-based cotton culture had dubbed Georgia the "Empire State of the South."In the 1936 book Empire, Georgia Today in Photographs and Paragraphs by Emily Woodward she wrote, "Any area that offers the essentials of living to more than three milliion people is, within itself, an EMPIRE. Such an area is GEORGIA."
Empire State of the South represented a determination in the Georgia citizenry to be leader in industrial and economic development.
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