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To roughly paraphrase one famous, self-described softy southerner espousing a tale where they soon learned a very valuable lesson: "Manchester's in the north and so's Scotland. Shouldn't take that long to get from one to the other."
Nice chap. Robert Llewellyn. Does electric car stuff and the like now. Occasionally plays Kryten in Red Dwarf, but this isn't strictly relevant.
The point is that, by default, no-one from south of Watford understands that there's quite a lot of land and people here between London and Edinburgh (and quite a lot north of that as well for that matter).
And even if you manage to get over the geography (conceptually or literally), there's a lot more lefty* voters in this ignored bit, so it tends to suit the largely centrist and right-leaning south to maintain their ignorance. And distance.
* Although the leftyness often doesn't extend to "foreign" folk, which is a disappointment.