sectionalism
Prioritizing local interests
Sectionalism is loyalty to a region over the whole, especially in politics.
The term appears most often in American history, describing the North-South divisions that preceded the Civil War: Sectionalism over slavery tore the nation apart.
More broadly, any prioritizing of regional interests over national unity qualifies as sectionalism.
Before a war's start
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- slaveryOwnership of people
- North-South divideWealth gap between regions
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
Union · Missouri Compromise · abolitionism · plantation economy · Compromise of 1850 · states' rights · secession · Reconstruction
Local area favoritism
- factionalismDivision into opposing cliques
- partisanshipLoyalty to one faction
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
- nullificationFormal cancellation of validity
federalism · disunion · bloc voting · parochialism · localism · separatism · provincial politics · state sovereignty
Shielding local producers
- tariffsTaxes on imports
- trade barriersRestrictions on cross-border commerce
- economic nationalismFavoring domestic over foreign commerce
- interstate commerceBusiness conducted across state boundaries
mercantilism · economic disparity · local markets · industrial policy · labor markets · infrastructure investment
Affection for one's area
- ethnic enclavesImmigrant community neighborhoods
- communalismGroup-centered social organization
- ethnic nationalismNation as extended kinship group
- insularityNarrow detachment from broader views
antebellum
Before a war's start
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- slaveryOwnership of people
- North-South divideWealth gap between regions
Confederacy · Union · Missouri Compromise · abolitionism · plantation economy · Compromise of 1850 · states' rights · secession · Reconstruction · regional economy
regionalism
Local area favoritism
- factionalismDivision into opposing cliques
- partisanshipLoyalty to one faction
- states' rightsProvincial governmental autonomy
nullification · federalism · disunion · bloc voting · parochialism · localism · separatism · provincial politics · state sovereignty · balkanization
protectionism
Shielding local producers
- tariffsTaxes on imports
- trade barriersRestrictions on cross-border commerce
- economic nationalismFavoring domestic over foreign commerce
interstate commerce · mercantilism · economic disparity · local markets · industrial policy · labor markets · infrastructure investment
regional pride
Affection for one's area
- ethnic enclavesImmigrant community neighborhoods
- communalismGroup-centered social organization
- ethnic nationalismNation as extended kinship group
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- Antebellum Americaantebellum era, Compromise of 1850, states' rights, Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Antebellum Politicsmanifest destiny, states' rights, nullification, secession, popular sovereignty
- regional biasregionalism, regional pride, localism, provincialism, parochialism
- Secessionsecession, disunion, Confederate States, Confederacy, states' rights
- social divisionsclass divide, racial divide, social divide, religious divide, cultural divide
sectionalismnationalism
Devotion to one's country
national unity · unionism · federalism · patriotism · centralism
sectionalismuniversalism
Doctrine of total reconciliation
globalism · cosmopolitanism · internationalism · ecumenism · humanism
sectionalismunity
Wholeness through cohesion
solidarity · bipartisanship · cooperation · consensus · integration
section, sections, sectional, sectioned, dissection, subsection, sectioning, intersectional