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What Europe Would Look Like if all the Separatists Won

posted by martyb on Tuesday September 23 2014, @09:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the drawing-between-the-lines dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Voters in Scotland have turned down independence for now, but separatist movements continue across Europe, possibly threatening to dismantle Spain, France, and Belgium as well as the UK. The next milestone will be an independence vote on Nov. 9 in Catalonia, the region on the northeast coast of Spain which includes Barcelona; separatists are expected to win handily, but the vote is not binding on the Spanish government. Slate has a neat map showing what a completely redrawn Europe would look like, if accommodations were made for all movements that have joined a loose collective called European Free Alliance; a more complete but visually less satisfying map, including EFA holdouts such as Northern Ireland, appears in Wikipedia. The Washington Post has thumbnail descriptions of eight movements.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23 2014, @02:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23 2014, @02:37PM (#97172)

    The main division is between country and city. Look at a colored (red/blue) county map of the USA after a major election, it looks like an ocean of red with pockets of blue. That's because there are many sparsely populated rural counties, though not so many in the northeast. Even in states like Texas and New York you'll see blue around the big cities and red in the countryside and distant suburbs (aka 'exurbs').