 Such reaction generated among the population a "mythical vagueness typical of such historical-community phenomena" which lead Madeirans to adopt the use of blue and gold colours as identifiers for the Region.Members of the regional parliament further argued that "such colours gained such an implantation within the Madeiran population that, repudiating the immense majority of the anti-Portugueseism of the separatists, the significance was implanted as meaning something substantial about the Autonomous Region's own personality.