I'm from Yorkshire. I just think of it as a part of England.
Me and my Lancastrian friends take the Mick out of each other. However, in reality, the War of the Roses was not a war between Yorkshire and Lancashire. In fact, it was a war between followers of the Dukes of York and Lancaster. Most of the county of Yorkshire was Lancastrian!
All counties in the UK have strong regional identities and no, people in Yorkshire in the main do not think of "themselves as a nation that is separate from England" the county is in the Country of England on the island of Britain and part of the United Kingdom....of course like anywhere you get people who think differently, but Yorkshire folk normally have their feet firmly on the ground and with their heads screwed on right
Yorkshire and Lancashire both have historical claims to the throne of England and they fought a terrible
war over those claims. Rivalry still runs deep even though the Counties have been turned into smaller
admin areas.
If anyone from Yorkshire thinks that it's separate from England then they they're utterly mental.
But I'm from Lancashire, so I would say that.
It's a county not a country.
Their puddings are good though.
Yorkshire is God's back garden and the rest of England is lucky to have us.
Yorkshire people always say that it is "God's own country"...there is also the saying that goes something like "Yorkshire born Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm, thick in the head"!
God's own county but NOT a country...
They think they are at the centre of the earth, a bit like the ancient Chinese and the 'Middle Kingdom'.
