Sentence:  Ignorance, cast, and superstition abound in the south; Unitarianism and socialism in the east; Mormonism, Anarchism, and Romanism in the west; a stupendous race problem in the north; and <WSD>ruinism</WSD> both north and south and east and west. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An ideology that leads to the destruction of society.