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South Coscivians have developed a strong identity and sense of distinctiveness that blends both ethnic and regional characteristics, which can manifest politically as {{wp|nationalism}}, {{wp|regionalism}}, {{wp|subnationalism}}, and {{wp|minority politics}}. | |||
South Coscivian ethno-regional identity emerged during the {{wp|early modern period}} in response to the contentious politics of the era, regional rivalries, and the pressures of modernisation on the traditional Southern lifestyle and economy. Prior to that era, the ancestors of today's South Coscivians enmeshed themselves in an overlapping web of more specific caste, village, patrilineal, religious/sectarian, feudal, and micro-regional identities. Despite overarching cultural commonalities and high mutual intelligibility across the South Coscivian {{wp|ialect continuum|dialect continuüm}}, premodern Southerners had little in the way of shared identity or popular solidarity. | South Coscivian ethno-regional identity emerged during the {{wp|early modern period}} in response to the contentious politics of the era, regional rivalries, and the pressures of modernisation on the traditional Southern lifestyle and economy. Prior to that era, the ancestors of today's South Coscivians enmeshed themselves in an overlapping web of more specific caste, village, patrilineal, religious/sectarian, feudal, and micro-regional identities. Despite overarching cultural commonalities and high mutual intelligibility across the South Coscivian {{wp|ialect continuum|dialect continuüm}}, premodern Southerners had little in the way of shared identity or popular solidarity. | ||