Weißwurstäquator
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The Weißwurstäquator (literally: white sausage equator) is a humorous term describing an imaginary cultural border. It divides Germany into the Southern part, mainly Bavaria, in which Weißwurst is consumed, and the Northern part in which these sausages are rarely served.
The Weißwurstäquator more or less coincides with the River Main, while some people of Altbayern even go as far as declaring the Danube river to be the Weißwurstäquator border.
The term is often used in relation to the (supposedly) very different political culture of Bavaria, especially the strongly dominant role of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria, a very conservative but populist party that does not exist as such in the rest of Germany.
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- Duden Deutsches Universalwörterbuch , 6th edition, ISBN-10: 3-411-05506-5
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