Any idea why this thingy is so persistent?

[Domen]

You don't see what pattern ???

 

[Borachio]

The clear division into Prussia, Russia and Austria.

But having said that, maybe I do. Prussian Poland was certainly a relatively Jew free zone. Whether that was a good or bad thing, I couldn't possibly say.

I've personally no interest in it at all.

I prefer my hard/soft water hypothesis.

 

[timtofly]

Could it just be that it is the junction of three directions and the population is just an extension of those directions? That it was culturally cut off and able to grow into it's own entity would be the mystery.

 

[Luckymoose]

Maybe Poles don't want to live in Poland. So they vote hoping to be partitioned again?

 

[TheLastOne36]

Could it just be that it is the junction of three directions and the population is just an extension of those directions? That it was culturally cut off and able to grow into it's own entity would be the mystery.

You'd think that, but it is literally impossible for it to be so.

The population of Western Poland, Pomerania and Silesia (The former Prussian/German regions) were settled by Poles expelled from the Kresy region (modern Ukraine/Belarus/Lithuania) after WWII. This means that Poles today living in Western regions inherited the same political/social/whatever legacy as Poles in Mazovia, Lodz, Lublin.


I really have no idea why these election results are so consistent.

 

[Rashiminos]

Can you explain what does Napoleon have to do with it ???

Vestiges of law and tradition stemming from allegiances in some not-quite-forgotten war.

 

[TheLastOne36]

The South Napoleon will rise again!!!

 

[timtofly]

You'd think that, but it is literally impossible for it to be so.

The population of Western Poland, Pomerania and Silesia (The former Prussian/German regions) were settled by Poles expelled from the Kresy region (modern Ukraine/Belarus/Lithuania) after WWII. This means that Poles today living in Western regions inherited the same political/social/whatever legacy as Poles in Mazovia, Lodz, Lublin.


I really have no idea why these election results are so consistent.

I was talking about Poland itself. When expelled did these people choose where to go or did they have no choice? Normally people would choose to go "back" from where they came from. Saying they held the position of their last home, may not be the whole story, but the home before that or one's even further back. I still may be wrong, but that was the thought that did occur to me.

 

[Tahuti]

I am surprised nobody evoked this yet:

Spoiler :

Seems to correlate fairly neatly with PiSland as well. The parts that are nowadays Ukraine interestingly are also the parts where Svoboda is most popular.

 

[TheLastOne36]

I was talking about Poland itself. When expelled did these people choose where to go or did they have no choice? Normally people would choose to go "back" from where they came from. Saying they held the position of their last home, may not be the whole story, but the home before that or one's even further back. I still may be wrong, but that was the thought that did occur to me.

These were the Russians expelling them, they didn't have a choice.

They originated in Kresy region and moved permanently to Western Polish regions. Their former homes were given to ethnic Ukrainians who were themselves evicted from Novorossiya and Eastern Ukraine.

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Another thing about this map is that Poles evicted from Kresy region and settled in Wroclaw, Gdansk, Szczecin and other places have the same voting patterns as the Poles who resided in Poznan and Upper Silesia during Prussian rule.