You must have seen electoral maps of Poland with clear traces of the borders of the empires that divided the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. But in Brazil it is even cooler. There is a perfectly clear correlation between the vote for Bolsonaro and the territory included in colonial Brazil by the bandiers from São Paulo in the second half of the 16th and 17th centuries + the development area of ​​gauchos of regional origin in the second half of the 18th century. Whereas the plantation area (sugar, cotton, cocoa) in the northeast and the populated areas from there are strongholds of Lula and the left. But Minas Gerais (the main mines), developed during the gold and diamond rush of the 18th century. - The main swing mode. Now he gave victory to Lola.

You must have seen electoral maps of Poland with clear traces of the borders of the empires that divided the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. But in Brazil it is even cooler. There is a perfectly clear correlation between the vote for Bolsonaro and the territory included in colonial Brazil by the bandiers from São Paulo in the second half of the 16th and 17th centuries + the development area of ​​gauchos of regional origin in the second half of the 18th century. Whereas the plantation area (sugar, cotton, cocoa) in the northeast and the populated areas from there are strongholds of Lula and the left. But Minas Gerais (the main mines), developed during the gold and diamond rush of the 18th century. - The main swing mode. Now he gave victory to Lola.