Comments on: I’m Just Looking at the Two Englands http://changingway.org/2007/10/30/im-just-looking-at-the-two-englands/ Andrew weighs in on the ways in which the web and the world are changing Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:44:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: John Cass http://changingway.org/2007/10/30/im-just-looking-at-the-two-englands/#comment-3265 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:15:19 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/10/30/im-just-looking-at-the-two-englands/#comment-3265 Andrew, I totally agree Birmingham is in the midlands.

Why the researchers dropped the concept of the midlands I don’t know. I think the researchers should have used different terms other than north and south. There is so much cultural identity tied up in the terms, North and South in England, and the midlands has its own cultural identity. Still I think the map is really cool!

]]> By: Andrew http://changingway.org/2007/10/30/im-just-looking-at-the-two-englands/#comment-3253 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:04:33 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/10/30/im-just-looking-at-the-two-englands/#comment-3253 Thanks for the comment, John. I think of Birmingham as neither south or north.
Perhaps there really is such a thing as the Midlands, going as far south as Warwick, and as far north as… Nottingham? East Leake?

]]> By: John Cass http://changingway.org/2007/10/30/im-just-looking-at-the-two-englands/#comment-3249 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:24:19 +0000 http://changingway.org/2007/10/30/im-just-looking-at-the-two-englands/#comment-3249 Looks like an attempt by northerners to take more territory to me. J I am from Cheshire and I would not have associated Birmingham with the north. Was this a divide between north and south, or the southeast and southwest and the rest of the country? I once lived in Hampshire for a year, and it was definitively a different place from the Greater Manchester area, but not so different from Cheshire. What do you think of the study; did you consider growing up in the north or the south? Or did your parent’s background cause you cultural confusion?

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