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Originally Posted by SetzerG
bias in your sample here (I know you admitted your hunch is not scientific at all) is that these are the french that you as a foreigner are encountering. I'd say foreigners in the USA visiting the tourist spots (nyc, sf, la, chicago) would have gotten the same vibe about trump as you've gotten on Le Pen. Have you been visiting the backwoods or sticking to more cosmopolitan areas?
No doubt bias in my sample size. In my experience, people who speak English as a second language at a decent level tend to be more liberal because of their education level. English also tends to be better spoken in large cities.
A significant portion of my interaction with locals in Paris has been with French Algerians as they run security of a building near where I'm staying and they have pretty obvious reasons for despising Le Pen.
I saw the map for people who voted for Le Pen in 2012 and was pretty surprised at the support along the Riviera. The immigrant population in Nice was pretty large in the city itself (lot of rich people in the suburbs of Nice though). I thought it would be more liberal but the southeast came out big for Front National.