The Geography of Resentment

Deindustrialized areas that were once bastions of working-class politics are now playgrounds of the revanchist right.


France

The area of northern France now called the Hauts-de-France region was a red base in the 1960s–1980s, consistently voting for Communist candidates or their Socialist coalition partners. Nowadays, however, it is fertile terrain for Marine Le Pen’s far-right movement.

 

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