<P> Another first usage of the term by Edward du Bois was in a poem describing the English county of Surrey in 1839 . The phrase was also used in its more literal meaning to refer to Heaven, in a poem by Elizabeth Harcourt Rolls Mitchell in 1857 . </P> <P> The phrase is also used to describe Yorkshire, England's largest county . This is used interchangeably with God's Own County . </P> <P> The phrase later found sporadic use to describe several American regions . Most known is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan . It was also used by the Confederate army to describe parts of Tennessee in the 1860s . The phrase was also used to describe California in the 1860s, and by Clement Laird Vallandigham to describe the land of the Mississippi plains . None of these remain widely used to describe a region, though it is still occasionally used to describe the United States overall . </P> <P> During World War II, German Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels sarcastically mocked the USA as "Aus Gottes eigenem Land" (From God's Own Country) in an essay that appeared in the German newspaper Das Reich on August 9, 1942 . Goebbels ridiculed America as a young land that lacked culture, education and history in contrast with Germany . In 1943, the Nazis published an anti-American, anti-semitic propaganda book written by Erwin Berghaus called "USA - nackt!: Bilddokumente aus Gottes eigenem Land" (USA naked! Photo documents from God's own country) which also mockingly characterized the USA with the phrase . Several modern German newspapers such as Die Welt, Der Tagesspiegel and Die Zeit have also used the phrase "Gottes eigenes Land" (God's own country) to criticize American culture and society . </P>

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