 In its origins in the second half of the twentieth century, blaverism was a populist and heterogeneous movement, which grouped together regionalists and supporters of Valencian foral civil law.Support for blaverism has been strongest in the city of Valencia and in the areas immediately surrounding it.Blaverism is usually seen as a reaction against the ideas expressed by Joan Fuster in his 1962 essay
"Nosaltres els valencians" ("We the Valencians"), which was very influential among Catalan nationalists during the 1960s and early 1970s.