provincialists

You know the kind "" hipper-than-thou provincialists, for whom where you reside in relation to a municipal taxing boundary defines you.

Multiculturalism & Diversity: Not in my back yard! 2008

In dealing with this difficult challenge, we must resist a temptation which would lead us to believe that only those who speak for the federal government can be statesmanlike, broad in their approach, and generous, whilst those who defend principles on other levels should be dismissed as narrow-minded provincialists or regionalists with no grasp of the magnitude of our problems.

Reflections on the Mood of Quebec Today 1981

After landing, the shepherdesses I have mentioned before received the company in separate troops, with songs and dances, after the fashion and accompanied by the music of the provinces they represented, -- the Poitevins playing on bagpipes; the Provencales on the viol and cymbal; the Burgundians and Champagners on the hautboy, bass viol, and tambourine; in like manner the Bretons and other provincialists.

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

He thought that the only remedy for the state of things which he had described was to deprive the province of its constitution, as the provincialists termed their charter.

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

Colonel, now General Nicholson, marched at the head of 4,000 provincialists, from Albany towards Canada.

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

All being lost in the east, Bolivar next proceeded to Carthagena, and offered his services to New Granada, then agitated by discordant parties of provincialists, centralists, metropolists, federalists, royalists, and independents.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 Various

The most promising of these provincialists was E. Zamyatin, whose stories [Footnote: _Uyezdnoe_, which may be rendered as "something provincial."] are as intense and packed with suggestive ugliness as anything in Remizov, but lack the master's unerring linguistic flair and his profound and inclusive humanness.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

It is mainly owing to St. Joseph's that within the past half-century the French inhabitants of Canada's maritime provinces have steadily advanced to a position of acknowledged social, industrial, and professional equality with their fellow-provincialists of other racial descent.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

It was also attacked by the Nationalists of Quebec, the ultra-colonialists or provincialists, as they might more truly be termed, under the vigorous leadership of Henri Bourassa, as yet another concession to imperialism and to militarism.

The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor Oscar Douglas Skelton 1909

For example, the statistic that provincialists on the East and West coasts might find useful during bar wagering: New York versus California.

latimes.com - News 2011