“Three weeks after a massive Catalan separatist march in Barcelona — the biggest since the 1970s — the independence flags still flutter from balconies across Spain’s second largest city.
Spain’s crushing recession has had this divisive consequence: soaring popular sentiment in Catalonia that the affluent region would be better off as a separate nation.”
Source: Spain economic crisis fuels Catalan separatist sentiment | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com
