The most broadly accepted dividing line is the river Trent, but the edges are a bit fuzzy. There is a semi-official definition, which is used for statistical purposes and for constituencies in the European Parliament elections. South Yorkshire is almost universally regarded as being in the north.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_England

You just reminded me of a lass I know that was born in Wakefield, lived there briefly, but grew up in Rugby. She maintains some really forced connection to the place, demanding that all of her friends give her shit about having a Yorkshire accent even though she sounds like an extra in Peaky Blinders. Recently she was slagging off Sheffield, having been once some years ago, and said "It's not even the proper north!", expecting some camaraderie from me as someone else who was born at a slightly higher latitude than South Yorkshire, but I just remained silent and sang The Housemartins in my head to myself while waiting for the whole encounter to end.

>>3177
>There is a semi-official definition, which is used for statistical purposes and for constituencies in the European Parliament elections.

Interesting thing about the map you have linked though is that it seems to have hived off Yorkshire and the Humber to its own thing. Its obviously distinctive enough from the North East and in my mind represents what can be considered a border region of North Midlands/Southern North.

I'd say Birmingham, north of that and you're north.

Sheffield is as far south as you can get and still be Northern, in my book. But only just.

>>3181

Anywhere past the Watford gap is northern scum territory, lad.

>>3182
I fail to see how Northampton can be in the South.

>>3179
Looking at the UK, it always somewhat boggles me how far north Norwich is - in line with places described as the midlands on that image. Still, fortunately there is some sea to seperate them.

As a Cantabrigian we're rich and shit but there's nothing particularly south about the whole area as far as I'm concerned, but it's definitely not anyway near northern, like it's the border of the Zone of Contention

Unlike Peterboroguh which is shit enough to be the Midlands.

Skegness bisects the north and south, everyone knows that. If you say it's Sheffield, then somehow Mansfield is Southerm.

>>3176
I think the Yorkshire Troubles could easily become a thing you know. Once we're out of Europe the country could easily factionalise like this.

>>3188
If the north in general seceded then us southerners and aspiring southerners would be rolling in cash.

Deus vult.

>>3186
I'm also a cantab and I'd definitely consider it southern. Mostly because half the student population is from the home-counties or London and the other half are from China. It's like a little peninsula of southern-ness into a dark and strange land.

Harrogate on the other hand is the south's northern embassy.

>>3190
You're a native or one of the students?

Students are like a big migrant population, its like claiming Birmingham is actually part of the subcontinent, totally justified.

I'm a native Cantabrigian and it just doesn't strike me as having anything to do with the South aside from being well off and English. None of East Anglia really does.