U.S. taps half-billion German phone, internet links in month: report

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29. Actually most of the Germans of that persuasion are in the East these days

Besides the fact that "Southern Germany" encompasses the very easy-going people of Baden-Württemberg as well as Bavaria, I might point out that Baden-Württemberg is the FIRST German state to have elected a Green as its governor, and the mayor of Munich has almost always been a member of the Social Democrats. In the former "socialist" East Germany, where the government always claimed "nothing but socialists here, no Nazis left," they never worked through their Nazi past, and the worst of the rightist agitators these days are to be found there.

There are of course, areas of hard-core pockets of "racist, ultra-nationalist, Neo-Nazi pricks," no question about it. However, the worst ones in my experience are to be found within a 1500 mile radius of my home in Dallas, not the one in Düsseldorf.