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Temperance to me is more of a New England Puritan name than southern. Dallas feels very modern. Not sure if Dixie was very common in the old south; the only Dixie I ever met is from Maryland and might be in her ffifties.

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I'm also unsure about just how southern the names Texas and Tennessee were, or rather, how much they were used at all, especially down south.
Cleodora is way out in left field. Not sure you can classify it as anything.

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From what I can tell, southern names in the old days didn't actually vary much from names used up north except for those names which were typically Puritan and thus New England.

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My own feeling is that Eliza is very Old South. Savannah kind of has that vibe but that may only be because of the Georgia city; it's definitely more popular in recent decades than any other time.

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