Homage to Catalonia Passage PDF

There was a section of Andalusians next to us in the line now. I do not know quite how they got to this front. The current explanation was that they  had run away from Málaga so fast that they had forgotten to stop at Valencia; but this, of course, came from the Catalans, who professed to look down on the Andalusians as a race of semi-savages. Certainly the Andalusians were very ignorant. Few if any of them could read, and they seemed not even to know the one thing that everybody knows in Spain - which political party they belonged to.