Ines well, here we also have different categories of Landers... a normal Lander and the Free States... they have more power, something that centralists can't accept and don't want to be true. We even have our own national Bavarian border patrol here, something a normal Lander can't have.
Education is also down to the Bavarian parliament. We have the highest standards in Germany, landers like Berlin or Pommern are far beyond that... and they also tend to like radicals and socialitic parties more than other states do... that's true...
But you're right, the situation is different... here we mainly have two problems: 1/3 of all Bavarians want independence from Germany, another 1/3 of us want to make a united country with Austria - but they can't agree on one possibility.
And Bavarians are just a bit ... lazy ... very lazy ... we sort of don't give a shit about anything and what anybody says and just do our thing and accept being occupied - except for when it gets difficult for us to live our life the way we want to... that's why Germany would do us separatists and patriots a favor by messing up more and more... they made some faults in past but instead of solving them they claim to have done everything right and just go on while the problems become bigger and bigger... can't wait for the booming crash to come, because that would motivate us to agree to one solution and to take action.