Southron

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Southron is a term meaning "a person from the south". It is uncommon in modern usage. It was originally used by Scots to refer to the English. Other notable uses are:

A person from the Southern United States in general
Historically, a person from the Confederate States of America
A member of the Haradrim, a human people in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
Anyone who lives below "The Neck" in the series A Song of Ice and Fire by author George R.R. Martin

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