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And who were the Nazi sympathizers? ... Good Catholics, but Bavarians first...

Nonsense!

I recommend you read Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's Liberty or Equality. His analysis of the 1933 election showed that "...the royalist 'Bavarian People's Party' maintained and slightly increased its number of supporters, whereas the Catholic Centre Party rose slowly from 61 to 73 seats."

He goes on to describe the voting of the other German constituencies and concludes: It was German liberalism and German bourgeois democracy which had turned National Socialist (emphasis in the original) pp. 261-262.

Did you leave out the rest of your quote? I would blame the universities, first, since the young one were the first to be beguiled by the Fuehrer. However, I would love to see the election results of 1936:-)? Perhaps we need to look at the membership roles of the NSDAP for those constituencies. One wonders what happened to conservative party leaders to see how many the Nazis co-opted once they had chopped off the heads of the the tallest plants.