Er, no?

The original comment was about how women's support for the criteria the chart delineated as progressive/conservative went towards the latter after 1990. Before that, it's almost certain the data only considered west Germany.

Thus, if it went down in 1990, it's to assume that it's at least partially because an increase of conservative population from the annexed regions of the east - right? Former Warsaw Pact countries do tend to have populations that are to the right of what the law was in the AES era.

What I'm saying is that the downward turn on the chart is unlikely to have been caused by that, since while the west had worse laws, its population wasn't that much different from the east's in supporting socially progressive causes. On the economic side, westerners haven't changed and the easterners only turned left with the negative effects of the free market economy restoration.