Since the transition, Spain has registered consistently high levels of support for democracy, which have evolved not only into a majoritarian support, but also into an unconditional one, creating a "safety attitudinal area" which makes it largely immune to the vicissitudes of politics or economic crises and helping also to overpass the political legacies and conflicts of the past. This attitudinal process, which has produced a consolidated attitudinal democracy, has been the result of an instrumental choice that was shaped above all by the political events of the transition and consolidation periods, and, more precisely, by the consensual and inclusive nature of the Spanish transition and the active avoidance of the politization of the "regime issue" by the major political actors of the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]