Regional nationalist movements arise to escape subsidizing poorer parts of their own country

Evidence

In other cases, nationalism and the racism which follows in its wake tend to convey the desire of one part of the population, or of a region, to rid itself of the burden constituted by the rest of the country, to assert itself autonomously and to participate more easily in the game of international economic relations. In some ways this is the case for movements like the Ligua del Nord in Italy or the Vlaams Blok in Belgium; in Italy the North is tired of having to subsidize the Center and the South with their structural economic difficul- ties, and the latter wish to separate Flanders, which is relatively prosperous, from Wallonia, which is in a state of serious crisis. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3167

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the Catalan and Brexit economic-secession arguments; a strong concrete case for secessionist economics literature. — connects to: State homogenization programs bred contradictory nationalist claims that spur secession — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1021