I'm sure I posted this on one of my previous blogs, but it is certainly worth posting again for folks who haven't seen it. Wonderful collection, curation and archiving!
In Great Britain as in the US, two cultural sub-nations identify themselves (and the other) as North and South.
It's all true. We hate the south round here.
Are you serious, sealy? And I wonder how accurate the border is.
Well it's a complex thing but put it this way. I'm very proud to be a Yorkshireman and we enjoy an intense rivalry with the other Northern mainstay - Lancashire but I'll take them every time in preference for so many of those stuck up Londoncentric plums in their mouth southern bastards.
OBVIOUSLY there are many fine individuals from such godforsaken counties as Essex and Surrey but as a lot.............
You have to be here really.
The boundary is desinged to include virtually all of the heavy industry and almost all of the mining (historically) and obviously Wales and Scotland (LOL) who cover that ground too.
Actually you could draw a line reasonably parallel with THE line but further to the south east. The folks down in the South - West are pretty steady...they have lots of rural poverty to match the post industrial poverty up north.
Draw a diagonal line joining the top of the S in Southampton and the L in London and the extend it to the sea in either direction and that's the lot who could slide off into the channel
:-)
Hahahahaha! Great, dispassionate analysis, sealy! :-)