Bloc voting   Countries with large populations of nonnationals may have their televote influenced considerably This has been cited as the reason for apparent bloc voting in the Balkan countries of the former Yugoslavia   This is fullblown crazy What does nonnationals mean These countries have similar cultures and speak the same languages The stars in Croatia are popular in Serbia and vice versa People are nationals of their countries in the largest proportion in each of those countries there are some refugees in each of those countries but that doesnt really explain why Croatia would always give the highest no of pts to Serbia or Macedonia to Serbia where there was no conflict to speak of For example Im a Bosnian Serb and me voting for a Croatian or a Serbian song is not unusual But Im not a Bosnian nonnational I have the passport of BiH and my family has never lived in Serbia in history Its really about mutual intelligibility  which is why Scandinavian bloc votes for each other all the time Its the language and sensibility