...particular, Washington warned against the establishment of political parties on a sectional basis: "In contemplating the causes which may disturb our...concern, that any ground should have been furnished by characterizing parties by Geographical discriminations: Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western;...

...Sectional majorities were regarded as the worst form of faction. Washingtons Farewell Address proclaimed a "matter of serious concern, that any ground should...furnished for characterizing parties by Geographical discrimination: Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western" (emphases in original).103 As we have...