regionalism
Example Sentences
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“What is dangerous is that both the question of color and the question of regionalism are weaponized for purely political reasons,” he said, distracting from the country’s fundamental problems of inequality, poverty and unemployment.
From Seattle Times
“Central to Black liberation is the assumption of power,” Blow writes, and power can be reached via the “Black regionalism” that is already building in the South.
From Washington Post
Republicans dared not use economic issues, and so they used religion, regionalism, and racism.
From Salon
The show’s dialogue is also rife with American idioms, and allusions to U.S. regionalism abound, as in one episode featuring a tribe of swamp-based water-benders who sound like they’ve been transplanted from the Deep South.
From New York Times
“And the coalition that’s already being built statewide right now transcends race, transcends urban and suburban and rural divides, and transcends regionalism. And we’re seeing that play out across the South.”
From New York Times
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