Upper South

Proper noun

 * 1) The northern part of the South (Southern United States), typically consisting of North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma, sometimes also inclusive of southern Missouri, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, eastern/southern/western Maryland, and southern Delaware.
 * 2) In the American Civil War, those Confederate states which did not secede until after Fort Sumter: Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Translations

 * Vietnamese: Thượng Nam