deregionalize

English

Etymology

de- +‎ regionalize

Verb

deregionalize (third-person singular simple present deregionalizes, present participle deregionalizing, simple past and past participle deregionalized)

1. (transitive) To change something so that it is no longer regionally divided.
2. (transitive) To remove the regional (local) characteristics of something.
   • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 95:

     Eugenics was the crucial vehicle for nationalizing and deregionalizing the stigmatypes of southern poor white trash. Previous chapters in this book aimed to track how particular words and phrases […] described, portrayed, and ultimately constructed poor white trash as a stigmatized and despised social group in the South […] However, there is little evidence before the end of Reconstruction that poor white trash was considered to be a problem social group that the nation as a whole needed to address for its safety and welfare.