Add that big terrorist attack to people's desire for private beaches and you get in NIce the "Miami Swizzle," a potent brew of domestic austerity and violence against minorities.
Definitely a trend here, but I don't think that's entirely right here!
The southwest has a lot of rural areas that went left; Brittany is not hyper-urban and 0 seats for the far-right; much of the southeast is a far-right stronghold, including cities.
Greens just won two rural constituencies in England, taking then from conservatives. Progressives need to be less afraid to campaign and talk to people who might be receptive but don't have exactly the same perspectives
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The centrist didn’t drop out there. Plus, that area has a weird history. After the Algerian War, returning troops and white colonists got dropped off in Nice. The Riviera is obviously a rich retirement area. Marseille voted left and I bet Nice proper did too since the fash candidate won w/ 43%.
I’m not sure. I guess it depends on how you define minority but it’s like 1/3+ Muslim and a lot of people with mixed ancestry. Lots of recent immigrants plus previous migrations of Italians, Greeks, etc. I guess like older U.S. port cities where it’s basically a working class melting pot.
I’m not holding myself out as an expert or anything. I’m a New Orleanian w/ like 75% Cajun ancestry so that’s what the fleurs-de-lis are about. I’ve done some extended stays there, though, and read French newspapers (because my French gets worse by the day) but I’m not the French politics knower.
Oh right. Sorry that I don't know the facts but was Kansas actually governing from the left before or was it just more centrist and has shifted right since then?
It's been quite a few years since I read it ;) but I believe the idea was that KS had a left-populist orientation several decades ago, but that Republicans had used culture war issues to flip the state to red.
