re: #337 HappyWarrior

Pegida took hold mainly in eastern cities such as Dresden, and it is in the ex-communist east that AfD has had its biggest successes, attracting more men than any other party. Odd perhaps, in that the biggest concentrations of immigrants are not in those areas.

I don’t think that’s odd at all. Our biggest fears about immigrants and immigration come from areas where they make up a small percentage of the population. I believe Britain experienced the same with the Brexit vote. Interesting that the far right’s biggest appeal though is in the heart of the former DDR though.

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”

― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature