Where is the north/south divide?

FLORIDA--The further north you drive, the more southern it gets.

hats of to the bloke who just drew the scotish border

"What we need is a geography teacher." -Mark Cooper-Jones, a geography teacher

As someone who lives in New Zealand, I can't say I've seen much animosity between North and South Islanders. If there's any cultural divide going on, it's Auckland vs Everywhere else.

This video is an affront to the proud British tradition of drawing straight lines through countries.

Wales is the forgotten stepchild that lives under the stairs of the UK

Yeah... my family is "northern German"(Hamburg) and they moved to southern Germany(Stuttgart) for better economic prospects, where I grew up. I was told to keep away from the southern culture and language, as a child, since it was considered inferior, by my parents. All people in our household were asked to speak "high German" around me- which is the version of the German language originating in Nether-Saxony/ Lower-Saxony and termed "high" since it is distinct from the regional "nether" dialects. So it doesn't mean "better" or "posh" German, and it is also not from high up on some mountain. It is however the kind of German taught internationally and the kind considered generally free of any dialect. So in my mind there is a clear north-south divide in Germany, too. But later my family moved to Cologne and I moved to Berlin and now don't get me started on the East-West divide... I am not sure, which is worse.

I like that Mark is essentially the absolute archetype of what northerners think southerners are like

The midlands: exist Notherners: Is this the South? Southerners: Is this the North? (mahogany)

You’re in the North if you have more Greggs than Waitrose and vice versa

2:41 Fun fact. In Italy, we tend to divide the country in four subdivisions: Northern Italy (8 regions: Aosta Valley, Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige), Central Italy (4 regions: Lazio, Marches, Tuscany and Umbria), Southern Italy (6 regions: Abruzzo, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania and Molise) and Insular Italy (2 regions: Sardinia and Sicily)

0:25 I just realised that this footage was reused for the unfinished london thumbnails

Its not as bad as in germany where it is split like: -north vs south (sort of) -west vs east (take a guess why) -everyone vs bavaria -and a big 16 state battle royale, everybody hates everybody i love germany

2:48 “France” shows picture of the two Sudans

Although there's north island/south island rivalry in NZ, north island folk don't really think about the south island much, whereas the more evenly split sentiment is between Auckland and Northland (north of the Bombay hills) and Everywhere south of the Bombay hills. There's a saying that NZ stops at the Bombay hills, but has opposite meanings depending on which side of the divide you live in. I also remember talking with someone who had lived in Auckland for a couple years who thought Wellington was in Waikato bc to them, Waikato was just whatever was south of Auckland.

In Japan, there actually is a East-West cultural divide. It’s also North-South, but it’s mainly described as east and west for some reason. There isn’t so much an economic difference though as far as I know, people in the west are said to be more brash and the east more quiet (or maybe that’s just Osaka and Tokyo), and they eat their food different; like Easterners put onions in their pork cutlet and egg rice bowls while Westerners put green onions on theirs, Westerners hate natto while Easterners love it for example. Though despite being a westerner, I swear I’ve eaten onion (or green onion and onion) pork bowls before and all my family except for me can eat natto just fine.

2:47 France Proceeds to show map of Sudan

Squiggly lines are always a sign that it's a good map. My history teacher would constantly draw maps of Europe with incredibly squiggly coastlines, so the entire school would just assume his maps were perfect. Took me a while to realise his squiggles were just random.

In Poland it's more like North-West/South-East divide. Except for Silesia, which is kind of a Schroedinger's region: Depending on who you ask, it's either split in the middle, or North-Western despite most of it being in the south, or its own little country, or a part of Germany.

Your jokes and the comedic continuity in each of your videos are godly. These are great.