Poll: 3% of Austrians want annexation to Germany, 90% opposed

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Here's an interesting question in a highly unlikely case Austria were to be annexed to Germany: would Austria become a land, or each of Austrian lands would separately gain the status?

Well., the last time it happened, Bergenland was split between Lower Danube (fka Lower Austria) and Styria; Carinthia gained East Tyrol; North Tyrol and Voralberg were combined into the Gau of Tirol and Voralberg; and last but not least Vienna was larger.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

For example, I as a Salzburg resident would not like to be merged with Carinthia.

You'd be in Tyrol-Voralberg if the Nazi-era borders were restored. It was only East Tyrol (Lienz) that was added to Carinthia, which makes sense if you hate exclaves and aren't willing to start an irredentist war with Italy over South Tyrol.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

For example, I as a Salzburg resident would not like to be merged with Carinthia.

You'd be in Tyrol-Voralberg if the Nazi-era borders were restored. It was only East Tyrol (Lienz) that was added to Carinthia, which makes sense if you hate exclaves and aren't willing to start an irredentist war with Italy over South Tyrol.

But what if the Nazi-era borders were not used, and the merger with Germany was in a democratic manner (hypothetically) and the population has a say ?

I think in this case, Austrians would like to be the 17th state at-large and the 9 Austrian states some kind of Regierungsbezirke (governing districts), like it is the case now already in the 16 other German states. It's virtually impossible that people here would be willing to give up their alignment to their states voluntarily.

Then we'd have a very uninteresting scenario, especially for a forum such as this where we like to discuss with maps.