{"id":196,"date":"2008-07-15T06:42:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T13:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2008-07-15T06:42:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T13:42:08","slug":"a-new-line-for-north-south-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/a-new-line-for-north-south-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"A NEW LINE FOR NORTH-SOUTH DIVIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">It turns out that the North-South divide I wrote about in my last post has recently been redrawn in a controversial new study. Interestingly, the study was undertaken by one of the Human Geography professors from my old department at\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"The University of Sheffield, Geography Department\" href=\"www.sheffield.ac.uk\/geography\/\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Sheffield<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Professor\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Professor Danny Dorling\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shef.ac.uk\/geography\/staff\/dorling_danny\/\" target=\"_blank\">Danny Dorling<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0has devised the line\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">based on a number of more recent socio-economic developments, including rising house prices, increased life expectancy and voting patterns. Dorling&#8217;s line says the North begins at the Severn estuary and heads up towards the Humber, hitting the coast in a higgledy piggledy diagonal south of Grimsby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">You can read about Dorling&#8217;s study in an article in the\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"The Observer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2007\/oct\/28\/britishidentity.society\" target=\"_blank\">Observer<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and more about his research on British identity (with\u00c2\u00a0Bethan Thomas)\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Identity in Britain: A cradle-to-grave atlas by Bethan Thomas and Danny Dorling\" href=\"http:\/\/sasi.group.shef.ac.uk\/publications\/identity.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the North-South divide I wrote about in my last post has recently been redrawn in a controversial new study. Interestingly, the study was undertaken by one of the Human Geography professors from my old department at\u00c2\u00a0The University of Sheffield. Professor\u00c2\u00a0Danny Dorling\u00c2\u00a0has devised the line\u00c2\u00a0based on a number of more recent socio-economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[26,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/we-english.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}