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Straddling the great divide.(north-south divide in Britain)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19991211
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Tony Blair has started a new debate on the old question of a north-south divide in Britain. But his observation that there are rich northerners and poor southerners is not very enlightening

HOW Tony Blair must curse Elizabeth Gaskell, a Victorian novelist whose portrait of the contrast between the industrial north of England and the comfortable south in "North and South", published in 1855, has turned into one of the most enduring stereotypes of British politics. Even in Mrs Gaskell's time, the north-south divide was not simple. The northern industrial cities were then the ...

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