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While the Basque conflict was mostly about identity, and the Catalonian one is half about identity and half about economics, the Leon conflict is sheer economics.

The region took an economic hit during the 80s as the country transitioned to a tertiary-sector-heavy economy, which lumped together with the lack of investments from the new regional government and their inability to perform any sort of industrial restructuring quickly turned Leon from one of the most prosperous regions in the country to one of the least.

Basically the same issues and politics you see in coal country in the States.