Word: sectionalist
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This year's elections highlighted the sectionalist nature of Canada's voting public. In the West, the Reform Party--the newest version of the corruption--plagued Social Credit or "SoCred" Party--took the majority in British Columbia and Alberta. The New Democrats, who are less centrist than the Liberals and do not really exist east of the Continental Divide, were cut from 35 seats to eight...
...most dramatic development also sported the most sectionalist banner: the Bloc Quebecois, the fervently francophonic and secessionist coalition that ran only in Quebec, nosed out the Reform Party by two seats (54 to 52) to become the new official opposition. While the Progressive Conservatives always had a counter-opinion for every Liberal stance, the Bloc Quebecois has only a nascent political agenda with which to represent the whole nation's opposition...
...Supreme Court of Alabama, is the epitome of the Southern Democrat. He sets one at ease with his easy drawl, or stabs at the heart like a Louisiana demagogue drowned in conservatism. To judge by his opening statement, politics will be in the limelight rather than personality. A mild Sectionalist when it comes to pork-barrelling, Heflin leaves his constituency's interests at the door on the Judiciary Committee...
While stopping short of supporting New York loan guarantees, Busbee agreed that "fire and brimstone regionalism" must not be allowed to overwhelm national economic policy. But sectionalist pressures are growing fast. At least six associations of elected officials and regional experts have been created by Northern states during the past 18 months alone. The largest: the Northeast-Midwest coalition of 204 Congressmen, headed by Massachusetts Representative Michael Harrington, which seeks legislation favorable to industrial states. In newspaper ads proclaiming THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN, Michigan has called for a Great Lakes area "common market." Busbee in turn has been telling...
...Robinson stands in definite contrast to Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who will not relinquish the Republican leadership. Mr. Lodge is ultra-conservative and a sectionalist. His policies are much the same as those he expressed when he first came to the Senate 30 years...
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