[Gumdrop]

What is the status of the government in Rheinland-Pfalz & in Baden-Wuerttemberg? Are they CDU or SPD? I read an article which said that basically Germany is divided politically in half: the north is SPD and the south is CDU. Is that correct? I am sooooo happy my ancestors were from the Rheinland, Hesse and Bavaria. That must be why I am conservative! Ha!

[Michael81Dus]

Rheinland-Pfalz (Palatinate) is governed by the SPD in coalition with the FDP (liberal, more turned to CDU).
In Baden-Würrttemberg, the CDU governs together with the FDP. It´s no longer true, Lower Saxony is in the north (North Sea) - so CDU/CSU governed states are from now on:
Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg (both south), Hesse, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thüringen (all in the "middle"), Hamburg and Lower Saxony (both north). We´re coalition partner with the SPD in Brandenburg (east) and Bremen (north). :-)
We can be happy, truly.