Bavarians vs prussians

while reading Goldenshon's Nuremberg interviews, i run into some counterintuitive statements from Goering and Albert Kesserling about the general differences between South Germans and North Germans. i always believed the Southerners to be more into work culture and pragmatism, while the Notherners more creative and great-souled.

GOERING:

People who knew my parents and me often said that my mental abilities were from my father but my temperament and energy come from my mother. One explanation of their differences in personality might be that my father was a northerner and my mother a southerner. The north German is very quiet and constructive. The south German is more lively and artistic. All great statesmen were north German, whereas all the great artists came from the south.
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Did Goering have the same taste in art as Hitler had? “No. Hitler was an absolute opponent of Gothic art. He leaned toward the antique and classical-Romantic. Classic art is more Greek or Renaissance, such as was found in the beginning of the nineteenth century. Hitler liked the classic style with many pillars. He preferred in paintings the work of the nineteenth century, from 1800 to 1900, but he also favored Rembrandt. He disliked Dürer, who is one of my favorites. Whereas Hitler liked Michelangelo and the middle Renaissance artists, I preferred the German masters and the early Italians. Another example of our differences of opinion regarding art — Hitler didn’t like wood carvings but was an enthusiast of bronze or stone. I prefer wood. Hitler was a south German — an Austrian, really — and I was more influenced by my northern German ancestry. In art I preferred the work of the Dutch masters, the Scandinavians, Dürer, and Holbein.

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KESSERLING:

The mixing of northern German and southern German characters make excellent results.” I asked him what the differences were between north and south Germans. The northern type has broader horizons, a bigger viewpoint, because the land is flatter and he can see greater distances. He is better at organizing things than the southern German. The Bavarian is more narrow-minded, tends to be melancholy; perhaps the mountains and isolation have something to do with it. The flatter the country, the wider the horizons. In Schwabia the people are inclined to be artistic and ambitious, and poetic.

so, what do german /pol think about it?

I thought this was obvious? And it's kinda true and captures it. At least the Northerners being "anal". Although I'd say it is them who are narrowminded and the Southerners tend be more introverted and dreamy/visionary. Which the Boheme Hitler also was.

why then bavaria is more productive and industrialized than ex-prussia?
isn't it inconsistant with goering and kesserling's words (about the prussian superior analytical abilities)?

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mentality doesnt directly translate to results

as an italian the differences in mentality are even greater in your country in the north vs south,

trentino vs sicilia

well, in italy notherners (including tuscans) are generally smarter than southerners (ex-kingdom of the two sicilies), and this is pretty well-reflected both in their respective economies and broad culture.

Terroni di merda

The north is full of industrial ruins and has either a lot of immigrants or was commie.
Bavaria meanwhile doubled its population in the last 60 years, mostly with intergerman migration, thats why our citys turn red and green. We still got enough room for new factories.

Also Bavaria is politically very stable with bascially one party rule since 1945. They have a lot of laissez-faire policy going (upon the brink of breaking federal law actually) and the taxes are lower in most citys.

Nordmen from Switzerland to Austria all the way to Finland and Iceland shouldn't fight each other and should unite as Nordic brothers as Hitler wanted.