Well, there are certainly no shortage of Government tit-suckers out of the East, I didn't mean that at all, and God knows plenty of the easties thought it was just aces and things were peachy keen right up until the government-supplied everything was cut off abruptly, and they suddenly had to work at real jobs.
Still, there were and are plenty of SDP strongholds like the Saar that would go left of left even before the Wall went down, if they could figure out how it was possible to go any 'lefter' than they already were (Damn' Commies, I say). Basically these were mainly the heavy organized-labor districts in the traditional industrial areas. People in less-labor-union intense, less urbanized areas like Bayern, the Pfalz, or Hessen tended to expect more self-reliance from folks, and a lot less government tit.