Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan
"All Politics is Local". Thus spake Thomas "Tip" O'Neill, longtime Speaker of the US House of Reps. I'm continuously amazed that in a country with less land mass and population than California, such diversity of opinion and outlook can exist (and co-exist, for that matter).

Does such distain for England and the English actually rise to the level of racial hatred among non-English citizens, as InsaneApache suggests? My whole life, I've thought there existed a rivalry between Angle, Scot, Welshman & Irisher, more on the lines of a good-natured sports rivalry. And I thought the addition of former colonists (Pakistanis, Indians, etc) as immigrants would just make the rivalry more diverse (kind of like our NFL 'expansion teams').

Should I re-think that relationship?
When my fathers wife initially arrived in the UK from the USA she too was amazed at the diversity. You can drive for 10-15 minutes in any direction and hear the difference in accents alone. She was fascinated with the Welsh and the Scots accents, often saying she could hear how the Mid-Atlantic accent came about. She's lived in Washington DC, New York and latterly Jacksonville (home to King Edward cigars ) and told me that you could literally drive for hundreds of miles in the USA and not hear an appreciable difference in accents. Living here I suppose you don't really pay it much attention.

There is as much rivalry between the counties, (War of the Roses anyone?), as there is between the countries. Perhaps because we inhabit such an ancient land.