Practice question · True or false
The effects of a border abolished generations ago can still show up in voting and wage data today.
Hints
- How long do institutions echo?
- The Habsburg boundary is still visible.
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True
Why
True. Studies find measurable differences in trust in courts and in bribery along the former Habsburg–Ottoman line, and the old Polish partition boundaries still appear in Polish voting and infrastructure. Borders leave institutions, roads and expectations that outlive the line itself by a very long way.
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