不仅《美国传统词典》，其他词典也有这样的注解。如：

adv.在南方; 自南方; 向南方《维科英汉词典》

adv.向南方, 在南方, 来自南方《现代英汉综合大辞典》

而且美国当代英语语料库（COCA）中不乏south表示from the south的例句。如：

By the time he came south, he was prepared to sling a little blame.

Finally, Jewish merchants came south to develop commerce.

I went north to visit, and we would get together when he came south.

"When I came South," he says," I tried not to sound like a Yankee.

After the Civil War ended in 1865, a new wave of northerners came south with much the same ideology as the Gideonites.

When Michael Swell came South, he got in the habit of telling people he was from the midwest.