Localism

is the political philosophy which focuses on the local.

Localists want to put special emphasis on their local area, usually a town, village, municipality, or city; and believe that it should be governed locally, by local people and for local people.

Localism wants to protect the locality and its people, usually by preferring the local consumption and production of goods, promoting local history, strengthening local government, and/or promoting local culture and community.

History
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Beliefs
Localism believes that a local area should be governed by its local people and serve their interests accordingly. Similarly, it wants to promote the locality and its community in general; wanting to help its economy by producing and consuming local as well as furthering local culture and community.

Localism is usually, at least in same sense, patriotic for the local area, wanting to make people aware of its history and iconography.

Personality and Behavior
Localism loves his town and the surrounding areas, he sometimes gets jokingly upset at other cities or towns and likes to meme on them. He always buys local and hosts town events to connect with the community and share his ideas. Usually he hangs out with mh:polcompball:Regionalism, someone he gets along with really well despite thinking he doesn't focus on the important things and issues enough.

Localism can often be seen to be patriotic for his town and displaying its symbolism.

How to Draw

 * 1) Draw a ball with a black outline.
 * 2) Fill the ball with light blue.
 * 3) Draw a thick line of white diagonally through the ball.
 * 4) Outline the diagonal with black (usually dark gray).
 * 5) Draw a white star in the canton, above the line.
 * 6) Add the eyes.
 * 7) Done!

Friends

 * [[File:Urb.png]] mh:polcompball:Urbism - A friend of local rule is a friend of me!
 * [[File:Region.png]] Regionalism - You need to focus more on the important parts, but you've got the spirit and understand me well.
 * [[File:Fed.png]] mh:polcompball:Federalism - Pretty cool fella who lets me do my thing. Just try giving more power to the municipalities instead of the states.
 * [[File:Community.png]] Communitarianism - We need to work together and connect as a local community!
 * [[File:Rural.png]] Ruralism - Rural areas tend to have the closest communities and the best case for localism, I still like my city districts too though!

Frenemies

 * [[File:Sep.png]] Separatism - Bit radical, but he's on the right track.

Enemies

 * [[File:Unitary.png]] mh:polcompball:Unitarism - Let the local people rule!