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| | | "Look on This Picture . . . And on This!" Nationalism, Localism, and Partisan Images of Otherness in the ... |
 | | Republicans and Federalists held separate Fourth of July orations, commemorations of revolutionary battles, and celebrations of revolutionary heroism, and favored their own selections from America's sacred texts. |
 | | To the Federalists, the Republicans were Jacobins, atheists, democrats, "savages," and "foreigners": they advocated mob rule and the dominance of France, and favored a weak defense policy and unrealistic trade sanctions. |
 | | As long as the Federalists were simply stand-ins for the British, and the Republicans were merely proxies for the French, lingering anti-foreign animosities could be enlisted and built on to solicit the partisan identity needed to combat the external foe. |
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