Recent developments in Croatia and Scotland highlight a stark divide between Eastern and Western Europe on the topic of same-sex marriage.

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

Regions are fluid constructs that we use to think about places.  The region that we think of today as “Latin America” would not have been a discrete region 600 years ago since historical events have shaped the geographic evolution of the attributes of the region and the borders of world regions will continue to be redrawn.  Some have recently argued that since the end of the Cold War, the monikers Eastern and Western Europe are less meaningful in an economic context.   This map shows this old division can still be seen in this cultural/political context.  Some have argued that Russia’s recent move against gay rights is a geopolitical strategy to differentiate themselves from the West. 

Tags:  Europe, regions.

See on www.pewresearch.org