“…Moreover, the Spanish right‐wing populist party Vox has attracted high levels of support in rural areas, and particularly in Castilian‐speaking areas, by addressing the frustration and the feeling of being “left behind” among people living in areas that have experienced decades of agricultural decline, depopulation, and impoverishment (Mamonova et al 2020). In Germany, as well, a connection between rurality and support for the recently successful right‐wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has been reported (Diermeier 2020; Franz, Fratzscher, and Kritikos 2018; Richter and Bösch 2017), in particular for the rural areas of eastern Germany, which are experiencing negative population growth and economic challenges (Bergmann, Diermeier, and Niehues 2018). It has also been shown that the weaker the services of general interest are in an area, the higher the level of support is for the AfD (Diermeier 2020).…”