The East South Central states is a region constituting one of the nine U.S. Census Bureau divisions.

Historically, the area has been colonized and influenced by the French, Spanish, British, early American, and Confederate governments.

[8] The East South Central states form the core of Old Dixie,[9] one of the nine moral regions identified by James Patterson and Peter Kim in their acclaimed 1991 geopolitical best-seller, The Day America Told The Truth.

The East South Central region covers 183,401 square miles of land.

Within the region, Tennessee is the largest state by population, though Alabama is the largest by land area; Tennessee was also the East South Central's fastest growing state between 2010 and 2020,[14][15] with Alabama second.