It’s amazing how high levels of deindustrialization have led to a destabilized working middle class easily won over by vapid populist rhetoric because of their collapsing quality of life and chronic disinvestment from their communities.
I’m assuming this is a map of the election, but especially annoying thing about this map is there’s no actual labels of anything.
Don’t worry. We’ll happily take French Flanders and Picardy from them.
It kinda has a geographical reasoning. The north was part of the so called “blue banana”, a region which used to be highly valuable due to its industrialization. However, due to a shift in economic focus, this region lost a lot of its value in favour for trading and service hubs (see also Wallonia, another part of the blue banana).
The people on the ground don’t care about ideology, at least not that much. People care about 3 things; money in the bank, food in the belly and shelter over the head. If the current government can’t provide that, wel…
Then you get rebellion votes for anti-establishment parties like Le Pen.
I still hope she loses. We don’t need another populist, Putin lover in Europe. Orban is bad enough by himself
“the utter and complete annihilation of the belgians” -Max
It’s actually a rather poor visual map. The actual voters density is lacking making countryside look much more important.
You can see the urban regions close to Belgium are all not blue. Lille, Reims, Metz, and Nancy are all yellow.
To vote on her, be ready for ww3 were Russia will win .
Le pen is Trump2
Actually true
Seems like living next to Wallonia shifts people to the right
Did the blue party talk about building a border wall or something?
The Belgians directly on the other side of that border are (ultra)socialists though.. so I fail to see a correlation..
also quite visible that even in this giant blue zone that the biggest cities are still Macron camps, and only the rural (probably poorer & hillbilly) “hinterland” is LePen-country.. a little like what the electoral map of the USA looked like last presidential elections..
Eh french Flanders seems to have voted Macron so its alright
If Le Pen ever becomes president… I can’t even imagine. That would be apocalyps.
can i get a graph ? i need more info about the meaning
Crosspost from r/ShittyMapPorn?
In this extrapolation Belgium is interchangeable with the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, the north pole and so on.
Time to restore our “natural borders” of French Flanders and denazify the region
Or more interestingly, to Germany 😬
What they don’t know is that the southern french part of Belgium are very socialist. I don’t even think they have a right wing party. And if they have its quite small.
I am Flemish btw.
Amazing how we never killed enough frenchies…
Because they realize how a good country we are
Pretty logical that le pen is strong in the area where there’s a problem with transmigrants.
This has nothing to do with being near belgium. This has to do with “le nord” The despised neightbourhood of France. As in it’s more poorer then the rest of france.
If I believed in simple correlations, I would almost agree. Another possible explanation is that Nord-Pas-de-Calais is much more confronted with poorly managed refugee flows. But that is of course no reason to prefer a Xenophobic person, I strongly doubt whether she handles such a situation better/humanely.
I guess it’s the lack of sun
*close to Wallonia
Yeaaaaah it’s been 20 years, France. 20 years. At this point, you lost your right to mock Trump.
Don’t think Le Pen would be that popular in Wallonia
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The f we looking at?
It’s amazing how high levels of deindustrialization have led to a destabilized working middle class easily won over by vapid populist rhetoric because of their collapsing quality of life and chronic disinvestment from their communities.
I’m assuming this is a map of the election, but especially annoying thing about this map is there’s no actual labels of anything.
Don’t worry. We’ll happily take French Flanders and Picardy from them.
It kinda has a geographical reasoning. The north was part of the so called “blue banana”, a region which used to be highly valuable due to its industrialization. However, due to a shift in economic focus, this region lost a lot of its value in favour for trading and service hubs (see also Wallonia, another part of the blue banana).
The people on the ground don’t care about ideology, at least not that much. People care about 3 things; money in the bank, food in the belly and shelter over the head. If the current government can’t provide that, wel…
Then you get rebellion votes for anti-establishment parties like Le Pen.
I still hope she loses. We don’t need another populist, Putin lover in Europe. Orban is bad enough by himself
“the utter and complete annihilation of the belgians” -Max
It’s actually a rather poor visual map. The actual voters density is lacking making countryside look much more important.
You can see the urban regions close to Belgium are all not blue. Lille, Reims, Metz, and Nancy are all yellow.
A special military operation is justified
Amazing how social media makes people idiots.
You have to be crazy to vote for Le Pen. She is a Putin lover and will destroy europe. Putin will be happy to take the whole country: https://www.newsweek.com/russian-legislator-calls-ukraine-total-war-demands-attack-nato-convoys-1696655
To vote on her, be ready for ww3 were Russia will win .
Le pen is Trump2
Actually true
Seems like living next to Wallonia shifts people to the right
Did the blue party talk about building a border wall or something?
The Belgians directly on the other side of that border are (ultra)socialists though.. so I fail to see a correlation..
also quite visible that even in this giant blue zone that the biggest cities are still Macron camps, and only the rural (probably poorer & hillbilly) “hinterland” is LePen-country.. a little like what the electoral map of the USA looked like last presidential elections..
Eh french Flanders seems to have voted Macron so its alright
If Le Pen ever becomes president… I can’t even imagine. That would be apocalyps.
can i get a graph ? i need more info about the meaning
Crosspost from r/ShittyMapPorn?
In this extrapolation Belgium is interchangeable with the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, the north pole and so on.
Time to restore our “natural borders” of French Flanders and denazify the region
Or more interestingly, to Germany 😬
What they don’t know is that the southern french part of Belgium are very socialist. I don’t even think they have a right wing party. And if they have its quite small.
I am Flemish btw.
Amazing how we never killed enough frenchies…
Because they realize how a good country we are
Pretty logical that le pen is strong in the area where there’s a problem with transmigrants.
This has nothing to do with being near belgium. This has to do with “le nord” The despised neightbourhood of France. As in it’s more poorer then the rest of france.
If I believed in simple correlations, I would almost agree. Another possible explanation is that Nord-Pas-de-Calais is much more confronted with poorly managed refugee flows. But that is of course no reason to prefer a Xenophobic person, I strongly doubt whether she handles such a situation better/humanely.
I guess it’s the lack of sun
*close to Wallonia
Yeaaaaah it’s been 20 years, France. 20 years. At this point, you lost your right to mock Trump.
Don’t think Le Pen would be that popular in Wallonia