Sectionalism in a sentence as a noun

"The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order.

The headline implies, at least to me, that slavery wasn't being taught as having a role at all. From the article:"The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order.

This whole anti law enforcement narrative has been popularized by inter sectionalism - in whose heads law enforcement is full of majority race, privileged individuals oppressing the minorities.

His post evokes FDR's speech some days before the 1936 election, in which Roosevelt says: "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.

Sectionalism definitions

noun

a partiality for some particular place

See also: provincialism localism