La Droite culmine à 50 km de Paris

In the runup to the presidential elections in France there is a report in Le Monde that suggests that one's voting is based upon one's distance from Paris. This we find from the ¡No Pasarán! blog site, here.  The three candidates of interest are the current president, Nicolas Sarkozy, the Socialist challenger, François Hollande, and Madame Marine Le Pen, of the "extreme right".

• In the center of the city, they will vote left (François Hollande)
• 10 to 20 km from the center, the extreme right (Le Pen) rises
• 30 to 40 km there-from (or "peri-urban France"), the far right is dominant
• 50 km out, the center right (Nicolas Sarkozy) dominates
• while further afield, the left starts rising again

I wonder if the same thing applies in the US?  Probably not, since we have no avowed Socialist and no party like Madame La Pen's Front National.

I am incredulous at the idea that 50 km Northeast of Paris, in a former coal mining area, with the scars of WWI still present, the voters are going to have the same voting sentiments as those in an area 50 km Southeast of Paris, where they are growing wine.  The ¡No Pasarán!, here has links to the original article, in French.

Regards  —  Cliff