North/South divide, why? UK?

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asbo_arry

Come - the 17-19th century was what made Britain indeed great The world's first industrialised city was Manchester, and up until the late 19th century the North was the powerhouse. When the media created the 'north-south' circus, Britain's empire had gone, and the industries that made us great were now almost non-existant...welcome to the leisure heaven that is the UK. But the press are ever so eager to tell us within the noose (aka the M25) is 'where it's at'...unless you reside in the many council estates in Lambeth, Brent or any other districts of London, where people with various degrees of festering chips on shoulders live, and black 'brotherhood' is now a myth, as all some want to do is shoot up each other. We're told that South is best...probably is if you have a seven-figure sum of money in the bank, but if you haven't - then the Northerners have every reason to laugh, as they don't need to act like they have it every day and all day.
The Londoncentric press lets us all down...even the normal people of the city they purr about time and time again!

mickl84

Dunno really, I think us Northerners think the Southerners pnly like themselves and their own voices, I only know 3 southerners and they are well loud, but they are all sound as a dollar.

penny century

I think it's a media invention and doesn't properly exist in anyone's day to day life. It certainly doesn't affect me.

Buffy

is that north south as in scotland /england or north england/ south england? if you're talking about scotland/england it may have something to do with football, theft of oil and trying to get our water as well hymph. Oh yeah and voting maggie thatcher in so many bloody times.

greybeard

Eeh By Gum Lad! dust tha know! Southerners don't understand us Northerners, they just watch Eastenders drivel, we watch splendid Corrie!

Jumpin' Jack Flash

Geneticists say the people of Northern England are far more Celt than Saxon. There's a start. Two, the Danelaw was in the North, so the Viking influence was felt more strongly. Three, differences between the two geographical landscapes meant two very distinct forms of agriculture, and thus economies. This is called the chalk and the cheese theory. The Northern soil favoured the growth of cereals and that meant dairy farming, which in turn manifested itself in more of a communal, agrarian society. In the South, the chalkier soil meant less open grazing and more reliance on orchards, vegetable gardening, and basic cottage industries such as woodworking, and iron founding, etc. Therefore a more individualistic outlook on life and an independent industriousness took hold in the South. Is it any wonder then why Puritanism was strongest in the South East, East Anglia, and the Eastern Midlands? Hence, the Parliamentarians (and later their former southern neighbours now resettled in New England) called for greater individual liberty and less government interference. Individualism and a free-market economy were two ideas highly touted by southerners. In the North, the Royalist cause (later transported in hiding to Virginia) took root, where people believed in communal living, strong central leadership, deference to authority, but also a certain honour bound responsibility on the part of the landowners to take an interest in the welfare of his peasants. Mutual aid and a vigilance toward communal welfare were extolled north of the Watford Gap. The people of the North had a more tradition orientated outlook on life. Catholicism still existed in pockets and High Church Anglicanism was still the preferred form of worship.

Now with these thoughts in mind, you can infer yourself why some of the differences between the North and the South exist even today?

championis

because the southerners only think anything further north than Watford does not matter.

gmayo81

Nothings meant by it, sure there are different customs, but we dont hate each other.

pageys

There isn't one, it's all media hype. I travel regularly North/South, all the people I've met say the same.No such thing.

swti97

Wales, Scotland and Ireland get on great together, England?

jessibabe1

Cos they got nothing better else to do

Phil H

Well the Scots don't like th English much. And The people of the North of England don't really like the South of England.
We in the north of England probably would be closer to the Scots than the Southerner's!

Ellie L

Because government is located in the south, its meant to be a centralised government but in reality its nothing like. There is no real difference in the people, good and bad, rich and poor in all regions of the country. I've visited every county in england, and lived in 9 of them, north, south east and west and found the same variety wherever I've been.

Ken B

There isnt one really, many northerners live in the south, and many southerners live in the north.
Prosperity varies.

farleyjackmaster

Money?

neil p

Well i drive up north 5 times a week,they moan just the same as us southerners about the same things aswell.

The accents are different but well they sound ok apart from a brummie...They sound abit backwards to me,but there agian i alway get told i sound like one of the mitchell brothers of eastenders

All what matters are we are all english/british

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