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*shrug*
I've been using the word "matriot" for twenty years. It's not a new term; it's just not been an aboveground one. But the sense in which I use it (and how I've heard it used in the past) is someone who owes her/his allegiance to the land, the country in the physical sense, not the political one. In that sense, it certainly isn't "patriot" in drag, which would indeed be gutless and ridiculous. Instead, it's a new idea - that of people thinking of the world as a whole, rather than putting their allegiance behind whatever is between this imaginary line drawn in the sand and that one.