Everything about Bavaria belied the direction of Germany at the time.  For one, Bavaria is, as a land of people, much older than the other parts of Germany.  Its people are a melting pot of European races mixed over and over again by the expansion of Rome.  Rural and Roman Catholic, the Protestant Reformation, or even, for the most part, the age of the Enlightenment, simply passed this region by.

This was both reassuring and unsettling for Montclair, who found the country people of Bavaria the most exceptionally welcoming people in all of the alps.  At the same time, run-ins with what he called "uncomfortable people who do not smile" were also frequent here.  You would meet these men from time to time.  They didn't feel comfortable around men who may have looked like Montclair, British lanky, with a French nose, and gypsy skin. 

Bavaria in 1925 held the roots of the weird and the fringe and the far, far right, and their occasional strange intersection with the far, far left, and they despised jazz, the "Americanization of Berlin", and the early Democratic experimentation of the Weimar Republic, which, to the extremist groups in Bavaria, was Bolshevism.