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Damn, that’s a very close visual match with the former border, not just a blob. I would have expected it to bleed over more into adjacent areas or shrink in others.
That could easily be the result of poor geolocation of residents (we know you're in the country but we can't narrow this down to a zip code).
Also, not clear at all how many of these accounts are bots. A country saturated with the equivalent of online phone banks could easily tip the scales one way or another simply based on how they invent/associate accounts.
The former DDR is actually shockingly visible in a lot of maps of Germany. Electoral voting preferences (especially looking at AfD, die Grunen, and die Linke), various economic indicators, average size of farms, vaccine rates (data I'm seeing is from 2009, may or may not still be true today. This is actually one of the few indicators where the east wins), religion (particularly non-Christian).
This article shows a bunch of factors.
As does this video.