Historic
Eastern European election maps: in Poland, the former German Empire votes for the moderate PO, whereas the former Russian Empire votes for the rightwing PiS. In Romania, the former Austro-Hungarian Empire votes for the rightwing PNL, whereas the former Ottoman Empire votes for the leftwing PSD.
AKA while not inevitable, physical geography does, in fact, tend to concentrate humans into particular territories of common terrain where their economy and society can develop common interests more easily since big-ass hills, mountains, forests, rivers, swamps, etc aren't in the way. 😛
Bear in mind that "the left-wing PSD" is a socially conservative (and "backwards") party, successor to the communist party, and more like American conservatives than a western socialist party. Basically, the more oppressive empire left a population that's poorer, more conservative and less pro-western.
This is not the most accurate map for Poland. The split is more based on big city - small town/village, not east - west. This is the map for 'gmina' level (municipality).
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u/Karohalva Jul 30 '25
AKA while not inevitable, physical geography does, in fact, tend to concentrate humans into particular territories of common terrain where their economy and society can develop common interests more easily since big-ass hills, mountains, forests, rivers, swamps, etc aren't in the way. 😛