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Voting Patterns of a Unified Germany

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1998 election. Bibliography lists 7 sources. SNGerman.doc United Germany - Voting Patterns Written by Susan A. Nelson - May, 2001 For  More Information On This Paper Please In most peoples memories the images are as vivid today as the actual events  of Nov. 9, 1989, when jubilant Germans surged through the Berlin wall -- the ultimate symbol of the division of Europe. All across Germany divided families have been reunited, and  people have rediscovered homes that they thought they would never see again. In the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) the secret police have melted into the night. There are no  more prying wiretaps. Numbing political regimentation has come to an end. Germans are now free to read, watch, hear and say what they please, and travel wherever caprice takes them.  For the first time in more than half a century, easterners can freely choose - and criticize -- their leaders. They can make their own economic decisions: quit a job,  sell a house, start a business, buy a car, order a pizza, etc. They are free to do the kinds of things that we Americans have been able to  take for granted for innumerable generations. However, since the years from what can only be described as the forced opening of the Berlin Wall by the people of East  Germany, feelings of unity and euphoria have been replaced by feelings of resentment and continued division. According to a recent poll by West Germanys Emnid Institute, many in Germany (and  2/3 of East Germans) now say that the Wall has been replaced by the walls in their heads (Germany Votes, 2001 and See Also The Gains and Losses of