Definition of "southside"
southside
/ˈsaʊθˌsaɪd/
noun
plural southsides
The southern side of a building, street, area etc.
Quotations
While certain details indicate that this is a black neighborhood up north in a Michigan city, quite possibly Detroit as some have guessed, Morrison is deliberately not specific, allowing us to imagine that the "Southside" in her story could be any of a number of southsides created by the Negro migrations, including the southsides we readers may have lived in.
2012, Robert B. Stepto, A Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama