 Certain LN members have been known to publicly deploy the offensive slur ""terrone"", a common pejorative term for Southern Italians that is evocative of negative Southern Italian stereotypes.As a federalist, regionalist, populist party of the North, LN is also highly critical of the centralized power and political importance of Rome, sometimes adopting to a lesser extent an anti-Roman stance in addition to an anti-Southern stance.With the rise of immigration into Italy since the late 1990s, LN has increasingly turned its attention to criticizing mass immigration to Italy.