[foreign policy wonk]

What misinformation?

There weren't many to begin with, as most were in Voivodina, around Subotica.



be seeing you,

foreign policy wonk


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[kosta50]

Vooch, foreing policy wonk has a point: according to the last census in 2002 [sorry the reference is in Serbian], the number of Croats in Serbia has dropped precipitously.

Specifically, in central Serbia, the drop is 35.3%, in Voyvodina the relative drop is 22%, with an average Serbia-wide (not counting Kosovo) drop in Croat population of 25.1% since 1991. The croat population in Serbia is now 0.94% (which represents 70,602 souls).

The drop of the Croatian population follows similar changes for just about every other ethnic group except for Serbs (whose numbers were augmented by refugees from Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo) and Gypsies.

One of the largest statistical dives is evidenced in the so-called undeclared "Yugoslavs" whose demographic change is about 75%. Certainly, neither the Croats nor any other group that has experienced precipitious drop was a result of forced expulsions, as was the case with changes of the Serb populations elsewhere.

[Seselj]

The way I understand it, the Bunjevci (Croats) in Backa used to identify themselves as Croats, but after the wars in the early 90's they because so ashamed of Croats that now they identify themselves as Serbs. That would explain the drop in Serbia's Croatian minority.