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• n  low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams
• n  the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia

• But English life was too drastic a change from tidewater Virginia.
• Harold Ickes demanded federal control of tidewater oil lands, which outraged such states' rights defenders as Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody.

• Tidewater
• Tidewater region

News & Articles

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• Supreme Court archive has about 14K hours of audio
  Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell's Tidewater Virginia drawl could make the word "court" sound as if it had two syllables. And Justice Clarence Thomas, though he doesn't talk much, speaks ...
  June 14, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Supreme Court audio archive _ nearly 14,000 hours _ nearing completion after a decade of work
  WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell's Tidewater Virginia drawl could make the word "court" sound as if it had two syllables. And Justice Clarence Thomas, though he doesn't talk much, speaks in a deep baritone.
  June 14, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Hear an F-bomb at the U.S. Supreme Court
  (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell's Tidewater Virginia drawl could make the word "court" sound as if it had two syllables. And Justice Clarence Thomas, though he doesn't talk much, speaks in a deep baritone.
  June 14, 2013 - Crain's Chicago Business

Quotes

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• DeAngelo Hall in SportingNews.com
  Mike became Mike at Virginia Tech,said Falcons cornerback DeAngelo Hall, another native of the Virginia coast who followed Vick to the Hokies. "He didn't become Mike playing in Tidewater. Where we came up, it was all Ronald Curry. I think...
• Scott Garrett in WAMU
  It's clear there's a need for resources in this area,says Garrett. "But I think they clearly need resources in Richmond and Tidewater and around the state."
• Nancy Nadel in Oakland Tribune
  The only (area) that I'm open to becoming residential is Tidewater,Nadel said. "That was a promise that I gave to Mr. De La Fuente, that if he stayed out of my district I would stay out of his."