History Main / SmallTownRivalry

* The show Jericho had an extreme example. The series follows a small town (specialized in farming and salt mining) in Kansas after the US is hit with about 20 mini nukes. During the series, New Bern (an industrial town) decides to solve its food shortage by taking over Jericho and evicting all its residents.

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* The towns of Hatfield and [=McCoy=] in ''WebAnimation/NoEvil'', named after feuding families of the Wild West. It hasn't quite reached actual murder, but that's mostly because spiritual stuff keeps getting in the way (usually involving the main characters). It's mainly a problem because Amaroq adopted [=McCoy=] as his "side", and this led them to assume Huey was similarly aligned with Hatfield, meaning the main cast have to get ''[[GunboatDiplomacy creative]]'' when it comes to, for example, healing the sick in [=McCoy=] of the Black Tezcatlipoca.
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* [[UsefulNotes/GreaterHouston Houston]] and [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]] in [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Texas]].

* A disturbing (and ultimately lethal) version of this occurs in Creator/Clive Barker's story "In the Hills, the Cities".

-->-- ''TheSimpsons''

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* The two yards of Lawn Gnomes from ''WesternAnimation/GnomeoAndJuliet'' are towns to the Gnomes, and each side hates the other.

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* In ''Bollywood/{{Lagaan}}'', two of the eventual members of the cricket team have a small town rivalry that stems from one's children pestering the other's chickens, and both being too HotBlooded to handle it reasonably. They do end up putting aside their differences for the match.

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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz Kibbutzim]] have a tendency to have long-standing rivalries (albeit often in tongue-in-cheek) with neighbouring kibbutzim, e.g. [[http://www.myhaogen.org.il/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=24&id=98&Itemid=111 Ha‘Ogen]] and [[http://www.maabarot.org.il/English/tabid/312/Default.aspx Ma‘abarot]]. There also used to be a rivalry that split up a few kibbutzim based on ideological lines and political party affiliation; ironically, the resulting kibbutzim [[NonIndicativeName called themselves]] ‘X ''ikhúd''’ (‘union’) and ‘X ''meukhád''’ (‘united’), historically supporting (as neither of these parties exists today) [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapai Mapai]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapam Mapam]] respectively.

* The two yards of Lawn Gnomes from GnomeoAndJuliet are towns to the Gnomes, and each side hates the other.

* Hooterville and Pixley on ''Series/PetticoatJunction'' and ''GreenAcres''

* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': Whenever the narrator talks about Desert Bluffs, he never fails to mention that it's inferior in every way to Night Vale.

* Residents of Dog River, the setting of ''Series/CornerGas'', have a deeply entrenched dislike for nearby Wullerton, to the point that they [[SpitefulSpit reflexively turn their head and spit]] whenever the town's name is mentioned. The Dog River - Wullerton rivalry was inspired by the real rivalry between Brent Butt's hometown of Tisdale, Sask. and nearby Melfort. {{Exploited}} by Emma in "TV Free Dog River":

** One episode, "Gopher It", shows that the rivalry might be one-sided, since Davis is transferred to the Wullerton police department and now spits whenever Dog River is mentioned, which just confuses the hell out of his new partner. However, that episode was AllJustADream, or rather a long ImagineSpot by Hank. TheMovie later confirms that the rivalry is one-sided. Wullerton is a SugarBowl full of incredibly nice, friendly, and selfless people who love everybody and even bail out Dog River when the town goes bankrupt. It's implied that everyone hates them because their IncorruptiblePurePureness just [[EvilCannotComprehendGood comes across as creepy]] to [[HumansAreBastards regular people]].

** Of course, neither Houston nor Dallas really qualify as small towns, in either sense of the term.

* This is the basic premise of [[VideoGame/HarvestMoon Harvest Moon]]: Tale of Two Towns.

* Residents of Dog River, the setting of ''Series/CornerGas'', have a deeply entrenched dislike for nearby Wullerton [[RunningGag *spit*]]. he Dog River - Wullerton rivalry was inspired by the real rivalry between Brent Butt's hometown of Tisdale, Sask. and nearby Melfort. {{Exploited}} by Emma in "TV Free Dog River":

** Meanwhile, Wullerton is actually full of very nice people who like Dog River. They even bail them out when the town goes broke in TheMovie. Why the rivalry only goes one way is never explained.

* [[TheSlayers Slayers Try]] has Alto and Bantone exchange cannon fire every day at the same time. The cause of the war is that the rulers of these countries had a fight when they were kids.

* Hooterville and Pixley on ''PetticoatJunction'' and ''GreenAcres''

* Pawnee vs. Eagleton on ''ParksAndRecreation''.

* In ''{{Lagaan}}'', two of the eventual members of the cricket team have a small town rivalry that stems from one's children pestering the other's chickens, and both being too HotBlooded to handle it reasonably. They do end up putting aside their differences for the match.

These towns may have some FeudingFamilies, or if the trope is taken UpToEleven one town's name may be TheScottishTrope in the other. This trope is also commonly used to throw out the ConflictBall for a FeudEpisode.

** Meanwhile, Wullerton is actually full of very nice people and who like Dog River. They even bail them out when the town goes broke in TheMovie. Why the rivalry only goes one way is never explained.