the belief that your zip code should get a vote in national decisions.
means political or cultural loyalty to a region over the nation as a whole, expressed through distinct identity, dialect, policy demands, or outright separatism.
from emerged as a term in 19th-century political and literary discourse, first describing writers who captured local color and dialect, then hardening into a political label as industrializing nations discovered their provinces did not all want the same things.
catalonia — declared independence in 2017, spain suspended its autonomy in response.
padania — northern italian movement invented a whole fictional nation in the 1990s.
quebec — held two independence referendums, 1980 and 1995, lost both narrowly.
scottish independence — 2014 referendum, 55 percent voted to stay in the uk.