Editing Tyrol (state) (section)

== Identity ==

The question of which regional unit was the bearer of primary identification was raised in the 1987 Austrian Consciousness Survey.
The possible answers were: the hometown (local patriotism), one's own province (regional patriotism), (Central) Europe (European consciousness), the world (cosmopolitanism).<ref>Österreichbewußtsein im Wandel, Ernst Bruckmüller, 1994</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Emotional connectedness according to territorial units (1987)
|-
! in: !! Vienna!! Lower Austria!! Burgenland !! Tyrol !! Carinthia !! Vorarlberg !! Styria !! Upper Austria !! Salzburg
|-
| Homeplace || 38|| 30|| 31|| ''16''|| 23|| 21|| 25|| 35|| 24
|-
| Bundesland || 8|| 16|| 24|| ''58''|| 53|| 44|| 39|| 23|| 33
|-
| Austrian || 46|| 55|| 44|| ''19''|| 24|| 28|| 32|| 37|| 35
|-
| German|| 1|| 0|| -|| ''1''|| -|| -|| 2|| 1|| 2
|-
| (Middle-)European || 4|| 1|| -|| ''1''|| -|| 4|| 2|| 1|| 4
|-
| World Citizen || 4|| -|| 1|| ''2''|| -|| 3|| 1|| 2|| -
|-
| other || 2|| 0|| -|| -|| 1|| -|| 0|| 0|| 3
|}

A research project led by Peter Diem<ref>Integrative Phänomene, Diem Peter, 1988</ref> offers a thoroughly comparable picture: In Vienna and Lower Austria, Austria patriotism dominated (1988) over territorial consciousness.{{clarification needed|date=July 2023}} In Upper Austria, Salzburg and Styria, national patriotism slightly outweighed federal state patriotism.{{clarification needed|date=July 2023}} In Carinthia, Tyrol and Vorarlberg, national patriotism clearly dominated. When asked to rate their own national patriotism on a ten-point scale, 83% of Carinthians, 69% of Tyroleans, 63% of Vorarlbergers, Burgenlanders and Styrians, 59% of Upper Austrians, 55% of Lower Austrians, 47% of Viennese and 43% of Salzburgers gave it the highest value.

The results of this study underline the assumption of a highly developed sense of national identity in most Austrian provinces. Peculiarly, the federal provinces are also largely "endogamous" in relation to other provinces, i.e. they correspond to what ethnologists would call a gentile association, a "tribe".

It is therefore also permissible to identify the inhabitants of the Austrian provinces as the "tribes" that a book published in London would like to portray. (The Times Guide to the Peoples of Europe, London 1994[https://archive.org/details/timesguidetopeop0000unse/mode/1up The Times guide to the peoples of Europe])