"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>I got to thinking about this later. It is pretty much the same in UK.
>Many Scots hate the English. Most will not show it, but if you hear those
>when there are no English around ... otoh most English love the Scots.
>Work that one out
>
> We get to see that in action. Himself is Scots born, while I am of
> Scottish extraction so we are treated as Scots with friends and
> neighbours, even though we have English accents. We get the other side of
> it when away from them ...

In this country it seems to go beyond North and South. I think people are
the most tolerant here in the PNW. Perhaps this is because the people who
settled this area were rebels!