The Ruhrgebiet and NRW is poor, because the mining industry collapsed and there was nothing to replace it. All the red areas are places with industry that has been outsourced. It is also the area with the highest number of people with a migrant background (turkish and polish especially). Southern German regions with many automotive suppliers might be next.
freshmozart on
Bavarians are rich.
alles-europa on
Common Bavarian W.
tohava on
Is it also possible that people living in cities are more aware of their rights and use welfare more than people in rural areas?
Is that because the areas that saw most destruction are now the poorest?
No, it’s because both maps correlate with [population density](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Population_density_of_Germany_by_municipality-de.svg). More densely populated areas also have more poverty, that’s pretty much always true in all countries. There are some outliers in that East Germany has more poverty in sparsely populated areas while the south has densely populated cities (e.g. München) where there isn’t much affordable and subsidies apartments so that poor people just can’t exist there (in larger numbers).
Confident_Access6498 on
Lazy protestants.
Sorry had to write this after all the s*itty comments i have been reading on reddit about the new pope. A little payback.
AlcoholicCocoa on
I didn’t expect south lower-saxony to be that poor
fanofreddithello on
But the south also completely was in west Germany
I_Wanna_Bang_Rats on
The Protestant mind cannot comprehend the Catholic Grind.
superurgentcatbox on
I live in one of the dark red regions that wasn’t a mining town previously. We did take in a lot of refugees though and I’d assume many of those kids are on welfare.
Achmedino on
Looks like almost all major cities are red. Immigrants tend to move to cities rather than the countryside.
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The Ruhrgebiet and NRW is poor, because the mining industry collapsed and there was nothing to replace it. All the red areas are places with industry that has been outsourced. It is also the area with the highest number of people with a migrant background (turkish and polish especially). Southern German regions with many automotive suppliers might be next.
Bavarians are rich.
Common Bavarian W.
Is it also possible that people living in cities are more aware of their rights and use welfare more than people in rural areas?
Bavaria Keeps Winning! RAAAAAAAAH!
looks more like a Bavaria/not Bavaria divide
Well…
Overlay a map of WW2 destruction in Germany like this [Map](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/12lk0da/ww2_destruction_in_germany_and_its_very_uneven/#lightbox) and you see that they are pretty similiar.
Is that because the areas that saw most destruction are now the poorest?
No, it’s because both maps correlate with [population density](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Population_density_of_Germany_by_municipality-de.svg). More densely populated areas also have more poverty, that’s pretty much always true in all countries. There are some outliers in that East Germany has more poverty in sparsely populated areas while the south has densely populated cities (e.g. München) where there isn’t much affordable and subsidies apartments so that poor people just can’t exist there (in larger numbers).
Lazy protestants.
Sorry had to write this after all the s*itty comments i have been reading on reddit about the new pope. A little payback.
I didn’t expect south lower-saxony to be that poor
But the south also completely was in west Germany
The Protestant mind cannot comprehend the Catholic Grind.
I live in one of the dark red regions that wasn’t a mining town previously. We did take in a lot of refugees though and I’d assume many of those kids are on welfare.
Looks like almost all major cities are red. Immigrants tend to move to cities rather than the countryside.