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Originally Posted by Agrippa
Knowing it, it has a strong childish sentiment. Its often about jokes, about personal issues and experiences ("arrogant Piefke tourists" etc.) and so on, similar things can be observed elsewhere too...
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I would have said that more than Piefke, which sounds a bit old fashion, some Southern Germans call Northern Germans FISHKOPF.
I do believe that Southern Germans, and specially Bavarians, Badeners and Franken feel differerent to Northern Germans, and much closer to Austrians, but nevertheless I have never met a German, and I have known lots, who would stand that his Vaterland is not Germany.
In any case, I would suggets a different division of Germany in between those territories with wine (that produce wine) and those without it.
The wine territories seem to be territories with a Roman/Latin Influence vs. those with a more Northern Influence.
Territories like Baden, Rheinland - Mossel, Saarland, Alsace, Württenberg, Bayern (Franken-Franconia), Austria, most of Switzerland, Liechtenstein would be the Wine-German-Roman influenced territories vs. the others.