Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
That is actually true and I have no explanation other than something must have distracted me.
Can't hurt to have some poll numbers though.
It's OK, I've been busy writing a PhD and chatting to pretty girls on Discord (100% of this is true) and you've doubtless been subjected to a lot of waffle in my absence.

38.7%
That's probably within margin of error then, given we don't have the actual results yet. It's also higher than the percentage of the electorate that voted to leave the EU in the UK, which was 37.4718%. However, there the turnout was higher and the vote much more orderly which allows the Leave camp to argue that everyone who wanted to vote was able to.

The difference between federal state and autonomous regions also seems a bit unclear to me. I'm assuming with the autonomous regions they all have slightly different rights whereas in a federal state, the rights of the smaller states would be outlined somewhere and be more standardized.
I'm not sure there is a big difference - Catalonia has its own Parliament, President and Police Force already, a "Federal Spain" might hand them more law-making powers, perhaps, but that's probably about it.

Isn't that a very sad thing to happen almost anywhere in Europe? I could swear someone said it's the nation state that brought peace to Europe, so are we looking at a return of war to Europe?
I don't know - certainly Beskar (and other Europhiles) have argued for the effective abolition of Nation-States within the EU and plans are afoot to assign Britain's seats in the EU Parliament to cross-border Franco-German constituencies.