In Rhineland-Palatinate, the SPD's Kurt Beck is the only premier to govern without a coalition partner.
The World War I Allies said they would enforce the Versailles Treaty on demilitarizing the Rhineland.
Mr Beck, a popular premier in Rhineland-Palatinate, has been unable to extend his appeal farther north.
The Rhineland model may be seen as a regulated market economy with a comprehensive system of social security.
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So complained Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, in a 1714 moan about the Palatine refugees from the Rhineland.
The history of Germany's reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 illustrates the point.
But this agreement in fact led to an erosion of the Rhineland model.
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Under the Anglo-Saxon type of capitalism individual responsibility plays a more important role than in the Rhineland, with its organised care and solidarity.
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The German company is due to construct the trains for the line between Brighton, London and Bedford at Krefeld, in the industrial Rhineland region.
The party has also given notice that the issue will be a major topic in the local elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg later this month.
In Rhineland-Palatinate the voters evicted the FDP from the legislature altogether.
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But one already runs the neighbouring state of Rhineland Palatinate.
The Rhineland model was thus not strengthened: rather the contrary.
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Enter Mr Gerster, a former social-affairs minister in Rhineland-Palatinate.
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Three swaggering young Rhineland farmers, on their way to a country dance, turn round to be photographed complete with their hats and canes, one of them dangling a cigarette between his lips.
It is less regulated than in the Rhineland.
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But he is little known in France and what is known about him, as a Protestant from Hanover, in Germany's north, and as a reputed Anglophile, makes him seem worryingly different from Mr Kohl, a Catholic Francophile from the nearby Rhineland.
The pacifist democracies of Europe and the UK could have easily prevented the carnage of World War II by slapping down Hitler when he first violated the Treaty of Versailles and moved troops and artillery into the Rhineland region in 1936.
Which is true: we would expect banks to have more control in the Continental (or perhaps Rhineland) style of capitalism, for in that style banks do generally own large percentages of the companies they lend to and do, by and large, have a degree of control over them.
If they lose the March 26th election in Rhineland-Palatinate, the only big state that still has a Social Democratic premier, both parties may start to have second thoughts about the grand coalition: the Social Democrats because they are losing votes, the Christian Democrats because they may be tempted to call a new federal election.
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