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Figure 4 – And population density seems to matter, at least when measuring some of the ideological characteristics of the community. Here we have the average of the responses from our five 1990 polls and our five 2000 polls on two questions: support for the embargo and support for a dialogue. As the Cuban population increases from 650K to 850k, the opinions converge, embargo going down and Dialogue going up.

Figure 4 – And population density seems to matter, at least when measuring some of the ideological characteristics of the community. Here we have the average of the responses from our five 1990 polls and our five 2000 polls on two questions: support for the embargo and support for a dialogue. As the Cuban population increases from 650K to 850k, the opinions converge, embargo going down and Dialogue going up.