In Germany, the far-right, anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) routinely achieves its most substantial electoral victories in rural, remote, and economically marginalised areas—particularly in the former East Germany —where the actual percentage of foreign-born residents and immigrants is exceptionally low. This trend was starkly illustrated by the AfD's historic landslide victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt , a region with a very low proportion of foreigners. In November 2019 Gareth Dale provided a background .
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51