Yeah... someone said the other day that if they had divided Germany into south/north instead of east/west, there would have not been a reunion. Maybe that’s true

I've heard it commonly said in Austria: in Bavaria, you have left Austria, but you're not yet in Germany...

I wonder what they meant by that. I've heard that Bavaria is the most German state of Germany.

It’s similar to Texas. Quite German, but then again some people dream to be independent. It is also called “Freistaat Bayern”, “Free state of Bavaria”

Not as much if you compare urban to urban parts and rural to rural ones. Frisian island folk and the inhabitants of remote Alpine valleys have more in common with each other than both do with Hamburg or Stuttgart.

Though they may have some difficulty understanding each other, the dialects are so significantly different.

They would never admit that