Any idea why this thingy is so persistent?

[Domen]

Why the old borders of partitions of Poland persist in EVERY SINGLE election ???

No exception this time, in European Parliament election 2014:

http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/pl/wyniki/komitety/view/47

http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/pl/wyniki/komitety/view/44

I still live in Prussia, as the results of all elections show.

Why the HECK are the results of elections in Poland ALWAYS showing division along the borders of FREAKING partitions ??!!

And can you tell me why the HECK is Austrian partition voting the same way as Russian partition ???

What did Russia and Austria have in common that Prussia lacked ???

 

[Borachio]

Is it a linguistic division? Some kind of dialect of Polish influenced by German, Austrian German and Russian respectively, perhaps?

Linguistic divisions tend to persist, I think.

I've no idea why Austrian and Russian partitions should side with each other.

But maybe they saw a common enemy in Prussia?

 

[Rashiminos]

This guy comes to mind:

 

[Terxpahseyton]

No, I do not know why you are so persistent.

Spoiler :

Sorry, too good of a template

 

[Domen]

Is it a linguistic division? Some kind of dialect of Polish influenced by German, Austrian German and Russian respectively, perhaps?

Nope. Too much of population movements, especially after WW2.

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BTW - other maps also show division along the same old borders.

For example - from 2007 parliamentary election:

And also - this is from 2010 presidential election:

Even borders from period 1921 - 1939 do not apply here (only borders from period before 1914):

 

[Ironsided]

A country divided by political po and pis? How fitting.

 

[Kyriakos]

Poland. Milkmaids. Vision. Milk. PoPis.
There is a surgery coming.

 

[Borachio]

Is it hard versus soft water areas?

 

[Domen]

And also Donald Tusk - leader of PO - had his grandfather (Józef Tusk) serving in the Wehrmacht.

While Lech Kaczynski - leader of PiS - had grandfather (Rajmund Kaczynski) in the Armia Krajowa.

So in theory their grandfathers could fight against each other already during WW2.

This guy comes to mind:

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

 

[Domen]

A country divided by political po and pis? How fitting.

Oh yes. And they are indeed Poo and Piss. That's why I voted for neither of these two.

 

[Phrossack]

I still live in Prussia, as the results of all elections show.

this only strengthens my suspicions that you are secretly a Prussian revanchist posing as a Polish nationalist to make people dislike Poland

 

[warpus]

I think this is just a coincidence. The east/west divide can be explained via other means. That this seems to align to historical borders when you define the ranges in your map in specific enough ways is probably just people finding correlation where there isn't causation.

 

[dutchfire]

There's also the famous map of the Polish rail network with the old borders superimposed http://uzar.wordpress.com/2008/04/

 

[Domen]

There's also the famous map of the Polish rail network

Oh yes, rail network vs. partitions map is also famous.

BTW - material of which walls of dwelling houses in Polish towns and cities were made as of 1931 census in Poland:

Small towns = up to 20 thousand ppl
Large towns = 20 thousand and more
6 largest cities = Warsaw, Lodz, Lvov, Poznan, Cracow, Vilno

Legend:

Type of towns or city - brick or stone in % / wood or Prussian wall in % / clay or ground in %

Western Poland (Prussian before 1914; Poznan V.; Pomerelia V.; Silesia V.):

S. towns - 90.6% / 4.6% / 4.5%
L. towns - 91.4% / 7.1% / 0.7%

Central Poland (Russian before 1914; Congress Kingdom):

S. towns - 35.2% / 63.5% / 1.1%
L. towns - 60.4% / 39.0% / 0.2%

Southern Poland (Austrian before 1914; Galicia & Lodomeria):

S. towns - 28.8% / 58.7% / 12.1%
L. towns - 53.3% / 43.6% / 2.7%

Eastern Poland (Russian before 1914; Western Krai):

S. towns - 10.7% / 88.7% / 0.4%
L. towns - 20.5% / 78.9% / 0.4%

Six largest as of 1931 cities:

Poznan (Prussian before 1914) - 90.1% / 7.9% / 1.2%
Cracow (Austrian before 1914) - 85.5% / 14.2% / 0.0%
Lvov (Austrian before 1914) - 79.2% / 19.2% / 1.0%
Warsaw (Russian before 1914) - 69.1% / 30.5% / 0.0%
Lodz (Russian before 1914) - 66.1% / 33.2% / 0.0%
Vilno (Russian before 1914) - 26.6% / 73.1% / 0.3%

 

[Borachio]

Well...

Doesn't this show an almost obsessional interest in detail?

I mean, one of my best friends records bus registration numbers. He's a bit OCD, though.

 

[Domen]

Actually, I just copied these numbers from another thread ("Western Europe / Eastern Europe"), in which I posted them long time ago.

 

[Phrossack]

Another victory for those yearning to know the percentage of clay houses in 1931 southwestern Poland

 

[Borachio]

One never knows when such information might come in handy. No, really, one doesn't. If we always knew what we needed to know, we wouldn't need to know it, would we?

 

[Domen]

Percent of Jews in Poland (in 1931) by county / city, compared to former borders between Prussian, Austrian and Russian Empires:

That was caused by mass expulsions of Jews from Prussia by Frederick the Great, Frederick William II, Frederick William III, etc.

 

[Borachio]

I'm not really seeing the same pattern in that one. Or maybe I am.

I'm going distinctly cross-eyed looking at it.