This is, of course, a self-selecting sample. Only municipalities where the local government is independentist had a referendum, and the coverage was about 12%. Only between 1/3 and 1/4 of the population cared enough to send a signal to go out and vote yes in a nonbinding vote. And 1%-2% of the population is opposed to independence and takes this weekend's vote seriously enough to go out and vote no. But the result does indicate support for independence Catalonia-wide is close enough to 50%.
The organizers are demanding a "binding" referendum for next April (around the day of Sant Jordi, or Saint George, Catalonia's Patron Saint). En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
