The North / South Divide

[Rambuchan]

Coal and Cotton my ass it was the manufacturing industry of the MIDLANDS that made it all happen. You Northern and Southern pooftas.

Yum al jus' big baby's.

Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot that it was quaint porcelain that allowed Britain to bestride the world like a Colossus. How silly of me

Anyway, quit sitting on the fence on the issue. Where do you stand north or south? No radioactive monkeys come into this.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Anyway, quit sitting on the fence on the issue. Where do you stand north or south? No radioactive monkeys come into this.

Below Birmingham = South.

We don't want the Midlands anyway. Too many canals, not enough ports. (or decent football sports teams)

 

[Samson]

Hey, PrinceOfLeigh, you are the one who maintained that Wife Beater is beer of the gods, while a pint like Fullers ESB is a "poofy southen beer". I rest the case of the souths superiority.

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Hey, PrinceOfLeigh, you are the one who maintained that Wife Beater is beer of the gods, while a pint like Fullers ESB is a "poofy southen beer". I rest the case of the souths superiority.

Using Logic I shall debunk your post.

I have never heard of Fullers ESB ergo Fullers ESB = crap southern dishwater.

 

[downtown]

I was under the impression that Brazil had a rather distinct north/south divide

 

[Irish Caesar]

Ireland has a north-south divide.

I blame the Brits.

 

[IglooDame]

You want a north-south divide, let's take a peek at Korea.


or New York State...

 

[Olorin0222]

Many African countries along the southern edge of the Sahara also have sharp north/south divides, between the Muslim north and more Christian/Animist south, e.g. Nigeria and Sudan.

 

[nonconformist]

English brothers!
Cease fighting amongst your bretheren, and let's focus our hate where it is needed!

Like those sheep shaggin' Taffies.

 

[BCLG100]

Below Birmingham = South.

We don't want the Midlands anyway. Too many canals, not enough ports. (or decent football sports teams)

according to my mum anything below the Runcorn bridge is south, which means there all Wooleybacks.

 

[El Justo]

there are some dividers in the US.

however, they are imo more cultural & linguistic than anything else.

 

[Babbler]

In Canada, the broadest division could be drawn Eastern and Western Canada, divided at Ontario-Manitoba or Lake-of-the-Woods. Eastern Canada is divided into Ontario (the traditional core of Canada), Quebec (it would also count a part of the core, if not for language) and the Atlantic Region (the poorest part of the country). Western Canada could also be divided into BC and the Prairies.

 

[EdwardTking]

England's Golden Age (Hip Hip Hurrah) was in the good old days of
Good Queen Bess (Mark 1) who never travelled north of Leicester
because she knew there was really nowhere worth going for.

 

[luiz]

In Brazil there are actually many divides, but there is indeed a broad divide between the rich South and poor North.

 

[sysyphus]

Even within those groups, there are lots of regional differences. People in BC tend to loathe getting grouped with the prairies, there's a significant divide between northern and southern ontario, the province of quebec sometimes has an uneasy relationship with ethnically-diverse montreal, and nearly 50% of Newfoundlanders don't think that joining confederacy was a good idea....

I often say, the problem with Toronto is that it's surrounded by Ontario.

 

[Oruc]

Below Birmingham = South.

We don't want the Midlands anyway. Too many canals, not enough ports. (or decent football sports teams)

You dont even live in the North, you live in Manchester (I think anyway)

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

You dont even live in the North, you live in Manchester (I think anyway)

I'm pretty sure we've had this argument before. Manchester is in the North of England. The centre of England is in Derby or Leicester somewhere depending on who you believe.

Scotland, for all intents and purposes, is a whole other country and therefore doesn't count.

 

[Mongoloid Cow]

In Australia, there are two main divides:
- Eastern Australia (New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, and Queensland) and not Eastern Australia (Tasmania, South Australia, the NT, and Western Australia). This one doesn't really mean anything though, since Australia is less "divided" than the UK or US.
- Victoria and not Victoria (New South Wales, the ACT, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia, the NT, and Western Australia). No one likes Victoria

 

[Meleager]

There is a divide on either side of the Tasman. The Kiwis still haven't gotten around to admitting they might as well be a state...

Actually, in Australia I imagine country / city is the closest thing we have. We don't really have any major devides.

 

[MjM]

The South is the best part of America! It will rise again!