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Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany

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  • ZIBLATT, DANIEL
  • HILBIG, HANNO
  • BISCHOF, DANIEL

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Why is support the radical right higher in some geographic locations than others? This article argues that what is frequently classified as the “rural” bases of radical-right support in previous research is in part the result of something different: communities that were in the historical “periphery” in the center–periphery conflicts of modern nation-state formation. Inspired by a classic state-building literature that emphasizes the prevalence of a “wealth of tongues”—or nonstandard linguistic dialects in a region—as a definition of the periphery, we use data from more than 725,000 geo-coded responses in a linguistic survey in Germany to show that voters from historically peripheral geographic communities are more likely to vote for the radical right today.

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  • Ziblatt, Daniel & Hilbig, Hanno & Bischof, Daniel, 2024. "Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 118(3), pages 1480-1496, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:118:y:2024:i:3:p:1480-1496_24
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