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- Title
THE NEW SECTIONALISM.
- Authors
Haynes, Frederick Emory
- Abstract
This article focuses on the ideology of new sectionalism in the political environment of the U.S. as of 1896. The new sectionalism represents a cleavage among the states, which divides the older and wealthier states of the East from the younger, less populous, and less wealthy states of the West and South. A line drawn from the source of the Mississippi to its junction with the Ohio, thence up the Ohio to the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, and along the southern boundary of Pennsylvania and of Maryland to the Atlantic, marks in a general way the boundary between the sections. Size teen states, with a population of 32 millions, comprise the East, and twenty-eight states, with a population of 30 millions, the West and South--an almost equal division of the people between the sections. The chief characteristics of this new sectionalism have been: hostility to railways; belief in an irredeemable paper money issued by the federal government; demand for the free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1; hostility to banks of all kinds; opposition to the issue of bonds; and demand for an income tax to force the holders of great wealth to contribute, according to theft ability, to the needs of the government.
- Subjects
UNITED States; SECTIONALISM (U.S.); REGIONALISM; INCOME tax; FEDERAL regulation; FEDERAL government; UNITED States politics &; government
- Publication
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1896, Vol 10, Issue 3, p269
- ISSN
0033-5533
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1882586