The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

To be fair speaking about "the English" as a group is always a great initial marker of wrongness.
Northerners have far more in common with Scots and Welsh than we do southerners.

Isn't that true of basically any grouping by geography?

[Josquius]

To be fair speaking about "the English" as a group is always a great initial marker of wrongness.
Northerners have far more in common with Scots and Welsh than we do southerners.

Isn't that true of basically any grouping by geography?

No.
You can make generalisations of the British for instance. But English specifically draws a line in the wrong place.

[Sheilbh]

Isn't that true of basically any grouping by geography?

Yes. And actually (whisper it) the differences even between English, Welsh, Scots and Irish, far less between groups of English people, are basically angels dancing on the head of a pin

I suspect that basically every single country has a similar difference of Northerner and Southerner.