Feelings Salmantinos

We all know that society is divided Euskadi between nationalists and constitutionalists and the difficult task of heal Patxi Lopez is so dramatic division. A fortnight ago, we also saw the national disaffection of many Barca fans who booed Athletic and the King and the Spanish national anthem. And the Salamanca? What we are of Salamanca? The question is not trivial because, paradoxically, what makes the world are not ideas but feelings. When they are taken to a pathological extreme, I know, just going on the wars, civil or global, as appropriate. A recent survey shows that our countrymen are very Spanish, on the one hand, and also very Salamanca, on the other. With the least are identified, however, is artificial administrative status with Castilian and Leonese.

Well, that happens to all the inhabitants of the region, but more especially those of the three provinces of our ancient kingdom, León, Zamora and Salamanca. Probably due to a sense of marginality in the autonomous region. He stated the other day on a television talk show,? Angel Ferreira, brilliant contributor to these pages. The man, always defending our independence, now lamented it was not confined to the historic Kingdom of León. And is that 26 years after its establishment, the very large community to which we belong has not finished root, sometimes mortified by the excesses of Salamanca Valladolid centralist and identified in the past with the landscape and the peasantry of Cáceres with that of Castile. That is not ideal for our collective development, of course. But I think even worse hypertrophy that promote local and village every day other Spanish regions, which end up denying water to their neighbors. We complain, therefore, because Spain is already pretty frayed by the excesses of each other and develop our double condition that is not exclusive, of Spanish and Salamanca.

And it lasts.