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In an Octoreferendum, that had been declared illegal by the Spanish Constitutional Court, about 90% of Catalan voters backed independence from Spain.

Fiercely loyal to their land, Catalans had long complained that the Spanish government in Madrid devoted a disproportionately large share of their tax dollars to poorer parts of Spain. The wealthy region has its own language, parliament, police force, flag, and anthem. Sectionalism can currently be found playing itself out in the Spanish region of Catalonia, a semi-autonomous region of about 7.5 million people in northeast Spain. Catalan pro-independence protesters demonstrated against the recent jailing of Catalan separatist politicians. BARCELONA, SPAIN - OCTOBER 26: Over 300,000 people protest in Barcelona over the jailing of Catalan politicians who organised the the 2017 referendum on Octoin Barcelona, Spain.
