Exactly. As a southerner, Londoner and immigrant rolled into one (yep, the most evil of all ), it surprises me how much anti-southern/cockney rhetoric there is on here and elsewhere. The cockney thing makes me cringe, it's like every Londoner is a cockney on here. Cockney culture has been and gone, and London has a variety of different people, accents and backgrounds.
If I'm totally honest sometimes I feel a bit ostracised as a NUFC fan when I see phrases like 'cockney Mafia out' and 'southern boys' club' uttered with the same neglect and flippancy as those who chastise the North east.
Thanks for the generalisation, I'll have a long hard look in the mirror tonight.
Nail on the head tbh. There's certainly some anti-southern rhetoric that exists without a doubt.
Putting it lightly