HBDChick has pointed us to the map of where Britons actually live. She's concerned with England, and its Central Province - old Mercia. I'm interested in where the people DON'T live, which includes the Plaid Cymru land... but also the whole of northwest England, and that gap beyond Hadrian's Wall up to the Antonine Wall.
This region, The North if you're a Game of Thrones fan, voted Tory mainly. Tyneside didn't, but Cumbria did - and so did that part of "Scotland" north of that. Scotland's Aberdeen corner also bucked the local trend, which was SNP up there; and went Tory.
Here straddling Hadrian's Wall is the Debatable Land of the book by that title. Here were the Reavers. I have actually been to that line of Hadrian's Wall. Do note, this line is relatively populous! People up in Brampton like their hill-forts and pre-English history. Pity 'bout that weather.
If there be a serious Scots National movement, and it wasn't all just a boot to Corbyn's arse; the English should look seriously into recognising the Debatable Land as something not quite English and not quite Scottish. Call it New Rheged or something. Aberdeen should be recognised similarly as, I dunno, a Norse outpost or Pictish - also not Scots.
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