North-South sectionalism intruded when it was appreciated that west of the Missouri any rail project would require a combination of federal and private efforts, the American practice.
The Green Mountains were long a barrier between eastern and western Vermont, and judgeships and political candidates often were chosen to balance an eastern and western sectionalism.
Furthermore, New England Federalists adopted a divisive policy of sectionalism, moving dangerously near secession in 1808 and strenuously opposing the War of 1812 (see Hartford Convention).
Meanwhile, the Democratic platform called for "immediate reform" of the federal government and, to forestall Republican charges of sectionalism, committed itself to the "permanence of the Federal Union".
This "sectionalism" has created problems of coordination, duplication, and bureaucratic competition, which have been the subject of numerous academic and internal debates on reform and efficiency.
Sectionalism was in comparative abeyance, replaced by a rather unassertive nationalism.
Sectionalism has disappeared".
In this college hotbed, practically a football suburb of Gainesville, where Tebow won two national titles with the Florida Gators, sectionalism runs rampant.
As many have noted, the obvious political model for Obama this year is Franklin Roosevelt, who at his legendary 1936 Madison Square Garden rally declared that he welcomed the "hatred" of his enemies in the realms of "business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering".
He identified anti-slavery sentiment and, in a self-contradiction, sectionalism as the root causes of the national crisis.
The Yale scholar John MacKay argues that an absence of sectionalism in Russia accounts for a general lack of an idea of a "land of liberty" in serf consciousness.
