"deregionalize" meaning in English

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