This is a very complex question to answer and it therefore depends on one’s perspective. Here's mine…
First, I assume that people are predictable products of genetics, social conditioning and spirituality. So the general drivers are that Spain is a Catholic country with a feudalistic past and America is WASP country based of the constitution. So the South of Spain is a bit of an Americanized evolved feudalistic society where everyone is a bit comfortable with their lives via a work to live mindset. The North of Spain is more of a European socialist society with a changing less-cultured Middle Class and a cultured elite who are a bit uncomfortable with the individualized live-to-work American influences. So one could call the trend in Spain as soft communism or socialism but with “parental” feudalistic tendencies of the elite.
And one more thing (okay, call me Cosby on philosophical steroids) for the PC folks from wiki....
“During the 1950s, Thurgood Marshall developed a friendly relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, the director the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 1956, for example, he privately praised Hoover’s campaign to discredit T.R.M. Howard, a maverick civil rights leader from Mississippi.”
He saw it coming........