But they don't really coincide... Seeing as Germany itself has a Protestant-Catholic split, nevermind the rest of Central Europe, Catholicism is probably not i

But they don't really coincide... Seeing as Germany itself has a Protestant-Catholic split, nevermind the rest of Central Europe, Catholicism is probably not it. Neither Latin script, nor the extent of the historical German population, unless you consider the Baltics Central Europe. It seems there is indeed more than one way to look at it. For some, it is about not being in the same category with Russia, for some it's their Austro-Hungarian history. For some it's Germanic languages. Is the German North Sea coast any more Central than, say, Belgium? How about Slovenia? Is Südtirol Central Europe? Where exactly the line is tends to depend on the context. In my experience, people from the region don't care much about the Iron Curtain line, unlike Anglos or the French.