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You can click for bigger copies of the images of Germany and the United Kingdom. I found them via Three Hierarchies, which says,

The only big exceptions are West Pomerania which voted for the homeland girl and Lutheran pastor’s daughter, Angie Merkel, Saxony (home of the Reformation–that’s better!), and Schleswig-Holstein. Also traditionally Lutheran Wuerttemberg followed the rest of the rural south and voted Christian Democrat.

This points up another thing, how accidents (more or less) of geography make a big difference in how we perceive countries. Without East Germany, the Christian Democrats would have just won their second term. Had Quebec voted for secession, Canada would be hardly less conservative than a United States that lost the South…

A technical note: The map of the United Kingdom is from Flashmedia or something like that– extremely fancy, and not an image file, so you can’t just right-click and download, and you can’t link to a permanent address. So here’s how to capture such an image. First, make it as big on your screen as you can. Second, hit CTRL-PRINTSCREEN. Third, open up Paintbrush. Fourth, hit CTRL-C. A screenshot will appear in Paintbrush. You can save it as a JPG or GIF file and then crop it to get rid of everything but the image you want.

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