Meaning of Tobacco Road | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dirt road, created by the passage of thousands of tobacco casks being rolled, mainly by people or mules, from plantations to river steamboats or trucks.
2. A region of North Carolina historically associated with the production of tobacco.
3. The four North Carolina schools in the Atlantic Coast Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.
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4. A fictional place in the rural American South inhabited by poor and uneducated people who live in dilapidated structures.

Examples

“If you have traveled in the remote parts of the Deep South, I am sure you have seen the architecture of Tobacco Road - shacks built of whatever materials were available at the time, often by a series of owners. Maybe the roof is corrugated tin, but one wall is made from a billboard and the doorstep is a cinder block.”

“All in all, the scene was one of an ethereal Tobacco Road West.”

“Then we got Tobacco Road on the corner here, but they finally got burnt out. The family she referred to lived at the end of the block.”

“The next time he saw her it was her picture in the newspaper, with the story all about the Tobacco Road girl who had made good.”

“But those Tobacco Road stereotypes of the South and rural America are the same disparagements that the Republicans hurled at the Populists a century ago […].”

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