The Three Divides of French Electoral Geography

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Map B has more in common with the traditional Catholic/Anti-Clerical divide than Map A does, which is interesting.

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It's not so much secularisation as the general weakening of that issue across the board. Note that elsewhere in the country a lot of anticlerical bastions that voted solidly Left for over a century are now strongholds of the Right. Le Var rouge sounds like a joke now.