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The Greens may remain on the margins in Berlin, but in Germany's picturesque and prosperous southwest, they're a political mainstay. DW's Elizabeth Schumacher reports from Heidelberg.
"When you have this much wealth, you can aspire to higher ideals," says a woman pushing her small daughter's stroller in the beautiful old city center of Heidelberg in southern Germany. Laughing self-consciously, she acknowledges readily that Heidelberg has earned its reputation as a Green party stronghold.
Cosmopolitan, well-educated, aggressively alternative, idealistic and yes, well-off - this could easily describe both the average citizen of Heidelberg and the average Green party voter.
Heidelberg, and nearby, similar cities like Freiburg and Tübingen, pride themselves on being "Green" cities in the political and ideological sense. All three lie in the wealthy southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, which in 2011 appointed Germany's first-ever Green state premier, Winfried Kretschmann. Support remained so high, he was re-elected in 2016.