Katja Hoyer: belief

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…AfD is relatively weak there. Is that correct compared to the rest of East Germany? Comparatively, but it’s still there. People also vote for the far-lefty Linke in higher numbers as well. It’s still a place, if you look at it across the board, where the numbers are still relatively high, but not as high as the rest of the state of Thuringia around them. I think that’s because it’s always been socially different from its environment. Thuringia itself is quite working class, lower middle class. It’s got lots of small businesses. Things like garden gnomes, for example, famously come from there. You have these small craft industries. That means that people tend to go with whatever the working classes are doing. They’re currently voting for AfD, so does Thuringia. Weimar itself is very middle-class. Not just middle class, but a particular branch of the middle class. It’s the educated, the professorial types, the intellectuals who move there. You end up with quite a small-C conservative culture there that sets it out a little bit from the rest of the region there. The numbers are a little bit lower. Putting aside both tourists and student populations, who are the immigrants who move into Weimar?…

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