Have we more in common with Scotland or the southerners?

[sonofagun]

Used to think Scotland but the Brexit results (Scotland hugely remain, NE majority leave) have made me not so sure...

 

[Boz33]

Used to think Scotland but the Brexit results (Scotland hugely remain, NE majority leave) have made me not so sure...

Way more in common with jocks, it's only the uber nationalists who are mental. Your average scot is fine

 

[UTW]

They only voted remain because that was the stance of the SNP

 

[j.w]

Prefer Jocks to Southerners

 

[aukq]

neither

 

[Dinsdale]

Well before some French nobles decided to try and carve up Britain for their own personal agendas we were pretty much one lot of people from Humberside to Edinburgh

 

[sonofagun]

neither

Wonder what we'd call our new country if the N.E seceded

 

[Frijj]

Wonder what we'd call our new country if the N.E seceded

Greater Newcastle

 

[Jasper]

Wonder what we'd call our new country if the N.E seceded

Northumbria.

 

[Cockney Mackem]

Some people are so insular that they can't agree that they've got anything in common with people six miles up the road from them.

 

[Mercia Blackcat]

Well historically we are more Anglo Scottish than Anglo Norman/Anglo French. Massive migration out of the borders into the NE and Cumberland during the purge of the Reiver clans (many NE surnames are Reiver) by James I and then again from a wider area of Scotland during the industrial revolution into the shipyards and mines.

Northumbria.

About the only sensible choice.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

Some people are so insular that they can't agree that they've got anything in common with people six miles up the road from them.

Bloody Barnet twats

 

[aukq]

Some people are so insular that they can't agree that they've got anything in common with people six miles up the road from them.

ooh, those pesky insular peoples!

 

[Coeus]

Prefer Jocks to Southerners

Don't you live in Worthing?

 

[Mercia Blackcat]

Basically we are descended from Borderers and in Scotland that was lowlanders rather than the highland clans who wore the tartan and kilts. Historically our allegiance has been neither Scottish nor English but what suited our own agenda at the time whenever the Scottish or English kings came into our land to fight their battles over a red line drawn on a map by people hundreds of miles away.

 

[Deleted User 2893]

We have very little in common with the scotch. We should cast them off now and save sturgeon the bother of organising another referendum

 

[peachy]

Basically we are descended from Borderers and in Scotland that was lowlanders rather than the highland clans who wore the tartan and kilts. Historically our allegiance has been neither Scottish nor English but what suited our own agenda at the time whenever the Scottish or English kings came into our land to fight their battles over a red line drawn on a map by people hundreds of miles away.

Hello mercy! Weren't the people of Sunderland aligned with the english whilst the people of Newcastle aligned with the Scottish in the past ? (Civil War)
Edit: It could well have been the other way around - my history lessons never taught me about the civil war.

 

[ajthemackem]

Hello mercy! Weren't the people of Sunderland aligned with the english whilst the people of Newcastle aligned with the Scottish in the past ? (Civil War)

Other way around.

 

[Mercia Blackcat]

Hello mercy! Weren't the people of Sunderland aligned with the english whilst the people of Newcastle aligned with the Scottish in the past ?

I think traditionally Newcastle was a loyalist stronghold. That was true in the Civil War but also during the Jacobite rebellion by Bonnie Prince Charlie. The nickname Geordie may arise from the fact Newcastle was loyal to George during the Jacobite insurgency.

 

[Coeus]

How are you judging "in common"? As In which do you prefer?