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Wants a divorce from the country, keeps the flag and the grudge.
means Someone who wants their group or region to break away and form its own independent political entity.
from Built from 'separate' (Latin separare, 'to pull apart,' from se- 'apart' plus parare 'to prepare, arrange') plus the agent suffix '-ist.' The word entered common use in the 1700s to describe religious dissenters splitting from established churches before broadening to its modern political sense of those seeking national or regional secession.
- goal
- independence, not reform
- tactic
- ranges from ballots to bombs
- irony
- often fights hardest for the smallest borders
- history
- nearly every modern nation started as one