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Sectionalism   Listen
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Sectionalism  n.  A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished from national. (U. S.)






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"Sectionalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... constantly coming to the surface. Newspapers and men talk as if they were constantly afraid the government would overstep its bounds and encroach upon the rights of the States. The Southern press is ever complaining of the sectionalism of the North. And when confronted with the necessity of teaching United States History in the public schools, it rejects the current school histories. It is not the present object to remark further upon this ...
— The American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 6, June, 1889 • Various

... eminent engineers, to investigate the condition of the half-finished Panama Canal. He was inaugurated President on March 4. In the selection of his cabinet officers, and in his public addresses, he showed a determination to avoid sectionalism and narrow partisanship. One of his first acts as President was to convene Congress in special session beginning March 15, for the purpose of framing ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster



Words linked to "Sectionalism" :   partiality, localism, provincialism, partisanship



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