 A 1996 survey by the local government in Subotica found that in the community, there are many people who declare as Croats and consider themselves Bunjevci, but also some people who declare as Bunjevci but consider themselves part of the wider Croatian nation.The same survey found that the delineation between the pro-Croat and pro-Bunjevac positions correlated with the delineation between the people who were more supportive towards the then ruling regime in Serbia that did not favor special rights for national minorities, and conversely those who were against the then government and more interested in minority rights and connections with what they saw as their second homeland.In early 2005, the Bunjevac issue was again popularized when the Vojvodina government decided to allow the official use of ""bunjevački" language with elements of national culture" in schools in the following school year the Štokavian dialect with ikavian pronunciation.