a sign of the survival of francoist sentiment in a large segment of the population was, among other things, the widespread success of far-right sympathiser fernando vizcaíno casas' satirical novels ("al tercer año resucitó", "de camisa vieja a chaqueta nueva"), which express viewpoints associated with the then-popular saying "con franco vivíamos mejor" (literally, "we lived better with franco"). even in 2007, in the context of the debates surrounding the historical memory law, there was still resistance among large segments of society and the political establishment to condemn francoism, as demonstrated by spanish right-wing politician jaime mayor oreja:why should i have to condemn francoism when there were many families that lived it with naturalness and normality? in my basque lands there were endless myths. the [spanish civil] war was much worse than francoism. some say that the persecutions in basque towns were terrible, but it can't have been the case if all the civil guards from galicia were asking to be sent to the basque country. it was a situation of extraordinary tranquility. let's leave the commentaries on francoism to the historians.the so-called "traditional values" also remained identified with francoism: country, religion, and family. as such, "francoism" is used, in some respects, as synonymous with conservatism, patriarchy, traditionalist conservatism, or authoritarianism; all long-standing phenomena that predate franco. indeed, some even reverse the cause and effect between franco and sociologicial francoism, positing franco as the effect of a "pre-existing" sociological francoism, as described by former "el país" editor-in-chief juan luis cebrián:i don't believe that franco was the cause, but rather the consequence. i don't think that franco or francoism were a sort of military group that seized power, but rather the physical manifestation, or result, of a way of understanding spain. and a large part of that way of understanding spain has been transmitted from generation to generation among the sectors of the spanish right-wing which former president aznar belongs to, and in which i was educated. i went to the same school as aznar; my family is, sociologically, like aznar's; i studied where he studied, which is to say, the salamanca neighbourhood of madrid. that is the sociological francoism to which i belonged, and thus know so well.the spanish journalist enrique gil calvo adds "desarrollismo" – the quick and unscrupulous economic growth that brought about the so-called spanish miracle – as another area that has remained identified with francoism, describing madrid as having changed from the "red breakwater of all the spains" to an "ostentatious showcase of upstart sociological neo-francoism".