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Prior to the US Civil War, Southern states were sometimes referred to as slave holding states. Technically and in reality, until the Civil War, all US states were called US states. This is not some way to marginalize the antebellum period of the US.

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The southern states before the American Civil War was usually known as the South. When the war began, they called themselves the Confederate States of America.

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