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Europe: Foci of Devolutionary Pressures, 2012.
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Territorial Infl uences on Devolution
Santa Catarina, and Parana. Southerners complained
that the government was misspending their tax money on
assistance to Amazonia in northern Brazil. The southern-
ers found a leader, manufactured a fl ag, and demanded
independence for their Republic of the Pampas. The Bra-
zilian government responded by outlawing the separat-
ists' political party, but the economic differences between
north and south continue, and devolution pressures will
certainly arise again.
We have seen how political decisions and cultural and
economic forces can generate devolutionary processes
in states. Devolutionary events have at least one fea-
ture in common: they most often occur on the margins
of states. Note that every one of the devolution-affected
areas shown in Figure 8.14 lies on a coast or on a border.
Distance, remoteness, and marginal location frequently
