Poland 2007 Election (German Empire)

[Siloch]

Look at the split, it is near enough perfectly along the lines of the former German Empire.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Yeah, I believe others have pointed it out before. From what I've understood, it appears to be mostly a case.

[Siloch]

Yeah, I believe others have pointed it out before. From what I've understood, it appears to be mostly a case.

A case of what?

Can you give me the link to the previous thread so I can read it?

Cheers.

[minionofmidas]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=147799.0

[palandio]

Under the German Empire the agriculture east of the River Elbe was dominated by lords sitting on their manors with large land holdings. Large parts of the rural population was farm workers without own property. This was the case not only in the areas that remained German after WW1, but also majority-Polish areas, the lords often (not always though) being catholic Polish nobles. After 1945 the land was collectivized and it was still large land holdings with farm workers, although the lord now was the state and not some nobleman.

The Russian and Austrian areas were dominated by small peasantry. After 1945 Poland was the most small-peasantry "friendly" country among communist Eastern Europe. The pre-1945 structure was largely conserved.

This explains in my opinion why the ex-Prussian areas that had become Polish after WW1 behave similarly to those that would become Polish only after WW2.