 The Upland South, not being defined by state lines, includes parts of Lower South states, such as northwestern South Carolina (the Upstate), North Georgia, North Alabama (and, in some definitions, Central Alabama).It also includes parts of some Northern states, such as Southern Illinois (generally the Shawnee Hills, sometimes to Southern Illinois as a whole), Southern Indiana, Southern Ohio, and extreme southwestern Pennsylvania.Sometimes Eastern Oklahoma, northeastern Mississippi and western Maryland are included as well.