Opinion of Saxony

[Middle-aged Europe]

The big cities of Leipzig and Dresden are decent enough. Dresden may be the birthplace of Pegida, but it has also an active left-wing scene, and it is a historically and culturally rich city.

The rural parts of the state are terrible though. Saxony went from being a SPD stronghold during the Weimar Republic, to a (conservative) CDU stronghold after 1990, then to a NPD stronghold, and now a AfD stronghold. They're the state where the AfD and before them the NPD traditionally win their best results, despite the fact that they're also the state with the strongest economy in all of East Germany and hence don't have much of an excuse for so much right-wing protest vote compared to the other eastern states.

They also constituted the so-called Tal der Ahnungslosen (Valley of of the Clueless) though... that region of East Germany which was too remote to receive transmissions from Western TV stations and hence was completely cut off from Western culture and independent news for four decades, which may have played a role here.