Sectionalism in the United States

Sectionalism: Is it the love for your region, or your hatred for another? In the Antebellum period, just before the Civil War, the meaning was often both. The tension between the north and south was higher than ever, and it was coming from the old "Where I live is better than where you live" comments. In these times, if a foreigner would have asked you where you were from, most people would have replied with: "From the North" or "From the South". Not, "I'm American", no, these comments were rarely used. A problem with this tension is that each side needed something from the other. The north provided the south with dairy products, cattle, and had all the manufacturing in the country. The south provided the north with tobacco, corn, wheat, and cotton. If both regions stopped trade, then both sides would lose very important, if not necessary products that would be difficult to make themselves in the differing climates.