The people of Catalonia in northeastern Spain voted for greater autonomy within Spain in a referendum last month. Although most Catalonians say they don't want outright independence, many Spaniards fear it's the first step toward the country's unraveling.
Attitudes to the issue are driven by a subtext: the brutal Spanish civil war of the 1930s and the years of repression under the Franco dictatorship that followed.
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