Definition of "Southland"

Southland

proper noun
1. A district and region in the far south of the South Island of New Zealand, which includes Fiordland.
2. The American South.
  Quotations
  Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue [...]
  1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
  Big wheels keep on turnin' // Carry me home to see my kin // Singin' songs about the Southland // I miss Alabamy once again, and I think it's a sin
  1974, Lynyrd Skynyrd (lyrics and music), “Sweet Home Alabama”, in Second Helping
  [...] combining in great oratorical flourishes a defense of his beloved Southland against the onslaughts of northern capitalists and a critique of the financial and transportation systems that threatened to impoverish farmers regardless of race [...]
  1993, Robert C. McMath, American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898, page 158
3. An unincorporated community in Garza County, Texas, United States.