If only there was some historical line that could explain that...https://twitter.com/cis_org/status/1047913624445091840 …
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Replying to @JayMan471
AFAIK the Iron Curtain is a better fit. Furthermore, there are subtle differences—there are 50+ million of English, Germans and French, while several CEE nations are ~10 million or fewer. For many, nationalism originated as struggle against the Habsburg empire. 1/
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Replying to @JayMan471
If you draw it straight, the latter passes east of Prague; the latter carved out the DDR. First Google hit: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/afd-germany-alternative-fur-deutschland-elections-map-statista-party-a7226956.html … More importantly, there is no causal relationship from the Hajnal line to where the fronts of WW2 would meet—the closeness is a real coincidence.
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Replying to @BasilMarte @JayMan471
the hajnal line shouldn't be thought of as a sharp border, because it isn't. it's very much a fuzzy, gradient boundary. (also, there are non-hajnal pockets inside the line.) the closeness btwn the line and the curtain isn't a coincidence. it's largely a matter of geography.
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Where are the non-Hajnal pockets?
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ones i know about: peripheral england, the auvergne, frisia, northern italy north of the po valley, much of switzerland, eastern and to a lesser extent northern germany.
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I admire the obstinacy of those core-adjacent cousin-fuckers
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Replying to @paul_hundred @fdwvt2 and
=P well, they didn't always stick to cousin marriage (they did in the auvergne!), but hung on to other pre-manorialism practices like extended families.
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