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Tom Moore <email_for_tom_knickers@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:<Xns94F12A22980CDemailfortomknickersy@127.0.0.1>...
> PatrickDHarrington@hotmail.com (Pat Harrington) wrote :
> 
> > Since I've been in England, I've noticed that
> > same look in many people from the more Northern
> > parts of England like Lancashire and Yorkshire.
> 
> These, especially Lancashire, now split into Merseyside, Greater Manchester 
> and Lancashire, are the hinterland of Liverpool:  one of England's two 
> ports for emmigrating to the Americas (the other is Plymouth, which lies 
> between two less densely populated counties, Devon and Cornwall).
> 
> Liverpool is also where immigrants to England from Ireland would likely 
> land.
> 
> The Port of London, prior to air travel, had to be left, by sea anyway, by 
> travelling eastwards into the North Sea, towards continental Europe.
> 
> It's very strange to read of an American, where annual leave entitlement is 
> generally no longer than two weeks, who has visited England beyond London.  
> Not to do so, is a bit like confusing DC with the US, but it is common, 
> even with people who have a low opinion of their own capital city.

     I think you misunderstood my phrase "Since I've been in England".
 I've been living near Watford, Herts., for nearly 10 years.  My
father-in-law was born in Gateshead and my wife's best friend lives
near Stockton-on-Tees, so we have many reasons for travelling north.
     Since I've been working in Banbury as of late (nasty commute up
the M40), and my company bought a company that was based in
Birmingham, we've had a lot of new employees come in from Birmingham
and Wolverhampton and I've noticed that one of the "looks" in the
Southern US is probably a "Black Country" look.  Like Jim Nabors,
Vince Gill and the golfer Phil Mickelson, for examples.