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What do you consider to be "The North"?
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Living in the North of Scotland and listening to people referring to anywhere north of Watford Gap as "The North" will always elicit a raised eyebrow from me.
Oh my sweet southern children, what do you know of the true north? Where the sun hides it's face for weeks at a time...
Northerners are basically Scots, Scots are basically Vikings, Southerners are basically French
The Wirral is very strongly Viking influenced - there's a Thingwall, after all.
You do realise York comes from the word "Yorvik" and that ze French never made it that far north, right?
I was going largely by geographic proximity rather than conquest. Also if you're suggesting that Yorkshire is in the South then they won't be happy with that!
If we consider GB as a whole, you're still in the southern half of Great Britain until you get almost up to Carlisle. Manchester, Liverpool, Yorkshire etc. which are all considered "up north" are very much south of this.