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Its disguised more eloquent- a disgust to be burdened with the work to "govern" for the backwater yokels. Its also has a tendency to disguise its resentiment as anti-fascism and anti-barbarism. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksfront_gegen_Reaktion,_Fas...

Stopped Strauss! and the likes comes to mind. Anyone from the south, no matter how quiet and timid (Stoiber/etc.) - or how brutish and hawkish (strauss) - can not be chancellor of germany- the cultivated guards of civilization forbid it.

Even if they turn out to be wrong entirely- results in support for anti-western terrorists, economic support for imperialist land-empires and having a nuke right now is what half of europe has on the shopping list. There is never a moment of reflection- the north is just that more advanced in culture.

The real reason is just the same thinly veiled racism- northern Italy has for southern Italy. Nobody in the south believes that any candidate they post, could ever make it.



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