Lower, Deb. I'd actually expected the number in the East to be a lot higher (especially, when regarding the support to the follow-up party of the SED [= former 'communist' party in the GDR].
Another reason, why I thought the number would have been higher, is that some hundredthousands "immigrated" to the old western states.
So those, who still stay there, would have been more 'conservative', I thought.
It's quite easy for us in the West, to look down to the East.
And it's easy not to look at our own faults but to declare, all our eveil is due to the money we send there.