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Originally Posted by Daveymaclad
I knew they weren't setting out to offend me but I was massively curious as to why they felt they needed to have such anger.
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Honestly I think in the 'modern age' people like Margaret Thacher have a hell of a lot to do with that kind of thing. The image of southerners, through the eyes of folk who don't know any, is that of the condesending, arrogant, loud, Thatcher type.
I doubt there was that kind of divide after WW2.. Especially against Poles, who made up a force of about 20,000 in the RAF and Polish Airforce in Britain.
You shouldn't confuse scottish nationalism with anti-english sentiment either, although I'd wager that the rise of both are intrinsically linked to tory governments, unemployment rates and the apparent 'dismantling' of industrial britain. (which would have happened anyway, eventually)
But I bet that a huge slice of 'Northeners' hate tories for exactly the same reasons..