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Power Line - A word from Michael Barone

Regarding John’s post on “red state/blue state France” immediately below, Michael Barone writes:

I was just looking at your red-and-blue map of the French vote. The oui areas–Brittany, Alsace, the central city of Paris and the department including Neuilly just to the west–have this in common: they are the areas most supportive of the party of the right. It seems that Chirac’s party’s people voted his way more than others. Lyon, I believe, tends to vote party of the right as well. I’m not sure about the department directly east of Geneva; I think it includes Evian les Bains, site of several infamous international conferences and the place where Stanley Baldwin (who liked to paint himself as an ordinary man of the British people) vacationed several weeks a year.

But, like us, you probably knew all that already, didn’t you?

This reminds me of my French teacher sophomore year of college, who was talking about the départments and politics and French things like that, and said that he was talking to his friends in Paris and said that the area east of Geneva that Barone points out, Haute-Savoie, is very beautiful, and how much he enjoys visiting, and wonders that it isn’t more popular with the French people because it is so beautiful, and his Parisian friends responded, “Yes, but they vote so far to the right.”