Word: secessionism
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Now, however, a new bilingualism and biculturalism is being promulgated that would deliberately fragment the nation into separate, unassimilated groups. The movement seems to take much of its ideology from the black separatism of the 1960s but derives its political force from the unprecedented raw numbers-15 million or more...
"I still would like to think," Henry Adams once wrote to his older brother Charles, "that a century or two hence when everything else about us is forgotten my letters might still be read and quoted as a memorial of manners and habits at the time of the great secession...
He had begun the week with a 16-hour day, talking across time zones to vacationing sources for a previously scheduled business story. He was finishing up his report Tuesday morning when he noticed on his cable-news tape that "the stock market was clearly up to something unusual-and...
At one time, more than one-fifth of the county's residents were slaves. Cotton was the mainstay of the economy, but this was not grand plantation country: small family parcels made slavery mostly pointless. North Carolina came late to the lost cause of secession. Jesse Helms claims no fallen...
BUT, THAT DOES NOT diminish the undercurrent of change, the quiet revolution. Court battles on the constitution's particulars could last years. Paradoxically, a new constitution would offer strong provincial premiers a central outlet for griping, an unmoveable target. The national Conservatives could play on local sentiment and run a...