Definition of "south-central" [south-central]

• Situated in the southern part of a centrally located area in some geographical region (adjective)
• Being in or of a region of the United States including the states of the lower Mississippi valley and east of the Rio Grande (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "NEOhio1, your comments about the cost of living in the Midwest and how that translates for Mexico can be applied equally for those of us living in the south-central US (Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana)."
• "Cuerámaro is in the south-central part of the state."
• "Winter-weary Americans start a new year of work and school following weeks of nasty, aberrant weather: flooding rains in Southern California, a blizzard that crippled much of the East Coast on one of the biggest travel days, and tornadoes that battered several south-central states on New Year's Eve, killing seven."