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Alberta is just bonkers for that isn't it.
Alberta is just bonkers for that isn't it.
It is amazing how they all somehow shift to vote the same - Albertans don't seem to tolerate division very well.
My best guess is that culturally there isn't actually that much difference between the sort of people who live in Edmonton and those who live further out in the sticks, especially in this period.
Edmonton would go on to become the primo opposition stronghold (which we can kind of see the seeds of in 1955) - Premier Getty lost his Edmonton seat in 1989 despite winning the election, and the NDP swept Edmonton in particular in 2015 and held most of the seats in the region in 2019. Now, Calgary on the other hand…My best guess is that culturally there isn't actually that much difference between the sort of people who live in Edmonton and those who live further out in the sticks, especially in this period.
I think this is true today but it's a relatively recent phenomenon - I remember my impressions of Alberta in the early 90s certainly fit Alex's idea of it all being one demos. I think even the most urban people were culturally thinking of themselves as frontier cowboys. It probably helps the sense of urban-rural commonality that back then it was a lot more mono-ethnic (at least in terms of visible minorities, obviously there's the Ukrainians and so on).Edmonton would go on to become the primo opposition stronghold (which we can kind of see the seeds of in 1955) - Premier Getty lost his Edmonton seat in 1989 despite winning the election, and the NDP swept Edmonton in particular in 2015 and held most of the seats in the region in 2019. Now, Calgary on the other hand…
Yeah, it is worth noting that the Liberals only swept Edmonton in the 80s and 90s because a) they went way off to the right of the federal party and basically tried to out-Tory the Tories, and b) their leader was the former mayor of Edmonton.I think this is true today but it's a relatively recent phenomenon - I remember my impressions of Alberta in the early 90s certainly fit Alex's idea of it all being one demos. I think even the most urban people were culturally thinking of themselves as frontier cowboys. It probably helps the sense of urban-rural commonality that back then it was a lot more mono-ethnic (at least in terms of visible minorities, obviously there's the Ukrainians and so on).
It’s a fair point - I based the alignment on the Poujadists being on the far right of the French chamber diagram in 1956, but as you say there’s probably a case to be made that neither group was on the far right as such. You’re the one who’s actually studied them, so I’m going to move them to the left of the BNL.I must say, putting the FUQ to the right of the BNL seems a bit odd, frankly. The FUQ weren't really neo-fascists as much as a mix between M5S and libertarianism, like a populist version of the PLI, and neutral on the monarchy question.
It’s a fair point - I based the alignment on the Poujadists being on the far right of the French chamber diagram in 1956, but as you say there’s probably a case to be made that neither group was on the far right as such. You’re the one who’s actually studied them, so I’m going to move them to the left of the BNL.
On the Chamber maps you can usually see the outline of the Venetian Republic, but that's not true here because Trentino by itself is just as deep blue as the rest of the region, but it gets much lighter when the SVP are in the equation.That Deep Deep Blue Triveneto plus Brescia and Bergamo.
On the Chamber maps you can usually see the outline of the Venetian Republic, but that's not true here because Trentino by itself is just as deep blue as the rest of the region, but it gets much lighter when the SVP are in the equation.
IIRC a lot of that activity was among rice growers, who a) proliferated in the Polesine, which was warm and humid enough to make rice growing feasible, and b) were to a large extent women. This example of women workers organising themselves was of interest to the Swedish women's movement in the 70s, who took one of their anthems and made it their own:And except for the Rovigo area, in the mouth of the Po, apparently that area of Veneto was so poor as to be considered the Mezzogiorno of the North. The PSI had a strong presence in the area before WWI, but I imagine that as elsewhere most of that support went to the PCI
In general they seem to have gone for a "just draw slices of the city" approach, which I would normally fault them for, but AFAIK a lot of Rome's suburban structure genuinely worked like that at the time. Of course, the absolutely massive post-war growth (IIRC, in 1948 Rome was only just barely the largest city in Italy) messed with that, but you could say that about any number of these boundaries really. And yet they stayed unchanged until 1992 everywhere but Friuli.That very narrow district in Rome is... odd.