In early 2018, the Allensbach Institute asked people in the state of Hesse whether they agreed with this statement: Alles in allem geht es Hessen doch gut. Es wäre daher das Beste, wenn sich nicht viel ändern würde. (All in all, Hesse is doing well. So it would be best if not much changed.) Fifty-seven percent agreed. Across Germany, the share of people who said they believed in progress fell from 56 percent in 1967 to 32 percent in April 2019.