Meanings of local patriotism in English

Ah, you've not got the same beautiful local patriotism that I have.

Something of the old local patriotism survives, and is vigorous in the town here.

And besides, in a contest the love of Israel goes down before the more local patriotism.

It is a remarkable phenomenon, which may well be rooted in the comparative safety of local patriotism.

He saw that each county had brought its local patriotism to college and had its county club.

Their ignorance has been trifled with by men who cover treasonable designs with a pretence of local patriotism.

Theirs was an intense local patriotism.

In such a people political skill too easily becomes local patriotism, or it remains in the state of innocence.

In those early days of slow transportation and isolated communities, local patriotism was much stronger than it is now.

Providing people the opportunity to display their civic pride would be a positive way for people to express local patriotism.

Greek morals may be said to have been inspired by two prerational sentiments, a naturalistic religion and a local patriotism.

Micro-nationalism gave birth to Palestine and to Kosovo, to the Basque land and to Quebec, to regionalism and to local patriotism.

They made noble sacrifices and they fought gallantly, but they did not rise above local patriotism and sustain the Continental cause.

Bundy's local patriotism seems to end as soon as state and county public interests get in the way of his business interests.

We must here limit ourselves to the local patriotism of the topographers who recorded the claims of their native cities to distinction.

The genuine local patriotism of the colonists was shown by their persistent struggle against the representatives of English authority in the governors' chairs.