Pigskin Politics

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Pigskin politics is a political epithet used to describe or dismiss a person's pavlovian attachment to a political persuasion or party, given that parties/persuasions past influence within the persons region. Its usually used within the context of a persons attachment to a region or state whereby the person holds a specific set of beliefs and ideas as a result of having lived there.

The basis of this term comes from the generality of the allegiance to sports teams, whereby if a person is from a specific teams region they are expected or pressured to support that team regardless of said teams performance, or bear negative social ramifications.

A broad definition could be that of the Southern United States, which is generally accepted as being conservative and the Northern United States which is usually seen as a more liberal region. Both of these regions supposedly have a mutual disdain for the other's political ideology and the obvious rivalry still felt from the American Civil War creates the semblance of teams, and is played out as such occasionally in the United States Media.

Likewise in elections often a candidate will select a running mate from a separate political region to gather votes from that specific regions demographic, who may not have otherwise voted for him/her, given the candidates separate place of residence and thus supposed separate ideals.

[edit] See also

• Ticket balance
• Logical fallacy
• Chauvinism

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