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Sectionalism

noun
1.
A partiality for some particular place.  Synonyms: localism, provincialism.





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... Republican leaders during the days of Reconstruction helped to keep it alive. A baneful political heritage has been handed down to us from the Civil War—the solid South. It overturns the national balance of parties, perpetuates a pernicious sectionalism, and deprives the South of that bipartizan rivalry which keeps open the currents of ...
— The Boss and the Machine • Samuel P. Orth


Words linked to "Sectionalism" :   partisanship, partiality


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