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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.

So glad to have you here, Michael. We need to have informed people giving us news about Europe. BTW, I was stationed in Nurnberg in the 2nd Armoured Cavalry Regiment from 1990 to 1992. I loved it. The city was beautifully reconstructed after the war. Bavarians are so wonderfully different! When we would go out on manuvers, the people in the countryside would wave little German/American flags as we passed. Kids would come up to our encampments and say, "Haben Sie Lightstiks?" (Little glow-in-the-dark markers to hang on your vehicles so as not to bump into them at night). We'd always give them a few. The locals would come out and chat. Sometimes they would even bring us food. I got a great impression of the Germans while living there.

I lived in Dresden from 1996 to 1999. Kind of a sad place, and the easterners are a bit more "pink" than the Germans in the old Bundeslaender. The Wiederverienigung hasn't worked out as people hoped.

BTW, what do you think of Kurt Biedenkopf? He's a bit old, but he struck me as being much more conservative/traditional than Helmut Kohl(even though Kohl was a good friend of the US). Do you think Biedenkopf could ever become Bundeskanzler?