sectionalism

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

sectionalism
    n 1: a partiality for some particular place [syn:
         {sectionalism}, {provincialism}, {localism}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sectionalism \Sec"tion*al*ism\, n.
   A disproportionate regard for the interests peculiar to a
   section of the country; local patriotism, as distinguished
   from national. [U. S.]
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

41 Moby Thesaurus words for "sectionalism":
      autarky, bimetallism, clannishness, clanship, cliqueyness,
      cliquishness, cliquism, denominationalism,
      economic self-sufficiency, esprit de corps, ethnocentricity,
      exclusiveness, faction, factionalism, free enterprise, free trade,
      governmentalism, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, line, localism,
      managed currency, noninterference, nonintervention, nullification,
      partiality, partisanism, partisanship, party line, party principle,
      party spirit, planned economy, policy, polity, position,
      price supports, protection, protectionism, public policy,
      pump-priming, sectarianism

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