Stalinists murdered or resettled Slavic Polish people, nobility and the “intelligence” from the now blue regions and they were replaced by catholics, about or there is to it.
Most of the “iron electorate” of PiS is essentially a hardcore catholic populace that is prevalent in most of eastern Poland.
But Podlasie is a slightly different case – historically it’s been a melting pot of different cultures and ideas. You can tell by all the Orthodox and Jewish landmarks. I’d say this is the reason for the difference.
In Poland going east you find more conservative people as the landscape gets less urban and more rural. And when you get far east enough, you find an enclave of weed-smokind, ultra liberal buddhist hippies, who got tired of the rat-race in Warsaw and decided to live in the forest.
Probably because of the [Belarusian minority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Belarusians_in_Poland,_2002.png) which follows the Eastern Orthodox church. They are not necessary more liberal, but won’t vote for parties associated with Polish nationalism and Roman Catholicism
Go on holiday to Germany!
Widać
Calling this party liberal is a joke.
This region is inhabited mainly by bisons, which, due to the extermination of their cousins in the United States, tend to vote for liberal and pro-ecological parties.
usually in rural areas you’ll have bigger PiS following, and cities you’ll have higher following on liberal parties
What about the Duda (PiS) enclaves in the West? Or the area southwest of the Tricity region? Why are they pro-PiS?
The convervative area overlaps with the historical area of Congress Poland. Podlasie is outside this area.
If you overlay this with electoral results maps you see the bit that was recovered from the Russian partition, but was not part of Congress Poland for some reason votes differently to the rest.
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Stalinists murdered or resettled Slavic Polish people, nobility and the “intelligence” from the now blue regions and they were replaced by catholics, about or there is to it.
Most of the “iron electorate” of PiS is essentially a hardcore catholic populace that is prevalent in most of eastern Poland.
But Podlasie is a slightly different case – historically it’s been a melting pot of different cultures and ideas. You can tell by all the Orthodox and Jewish landmarks. I’d say this is the reason for the difference.
In Poland going east you find more conservative people as the landscape gets less urban and more rural. And when you get far east enough, you find an enclave of weed-smokind, ultra liberal buddhist hippies, who got tired of the rat-race in Warsaw and decided to live in the forest.
Probably because of the [Belarusian minority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Belarusians_in_Poland,_2002.png) which follows the Eastern Orthodox church. They are not necessary more liberal, but won’t vote for parties associated with Polish nationalism and Roman Catholicism
Go on holiday to Germany!
Widać
Calling this party liberal is a joke.
This region is inhabited mainly by bisons, which, due to the extermination of their cousins in the United States, tend to vote for liberal and pro-ecological parties.
usually in rural areas you’ll have bigger PiS following, and cities you’ll have higher following on liberal parties
What about the Duda (PiS) enclaves in the West? Or the area southwest of the Tricity region? Why are they pro-PiS?
The convervative area overlaps with the historical area of Congress Poland. Podlasie is outside this area.
https://preview.redd.it/hresjn5a14eb1.jpeg?width=952&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=896aacc933ed9482c04944440b73442a1a9c7df6
If you overlay this with electoral results maps you see the bit that was recovered from the Russian partition, but was not part of Congress Poland for some reason votes differently to the rest.
Andrzej Duda “independent” XD