It's also interesting that, in Poland, areas which were part of German before WW1 are far more likely to vote Civil Platform, while people in the former Russian-occupied areas (large cities excepted) are more likely to vote United Right.

Not an entirely dissimilar picture.

The map on the left shows the results by constituency for the German federal elections (CDU - black; SPD - red; AfD - blue)

Anyone want to put forward any theories as to why AfD's support is so heavily concentrated in the former GDR while they failed to win a single constituency in the former GFR?

The new US undersecretary of state for public diplomacy is very clearly both a misogynist and a white supremacist.

Very sad news.

RIP Jimmy Carter, a wonderful humanitarian.