Mags embarrassing themselves yet again

Lots of people in Sunderland don't refer themselves as Mackems either, even those with shipbuilding heritage.

 

Geordies - north of the Tyne
Shields - sand dancers
Gateshead - black necks
Sunderland - mackems

 

Oh well, how sad. Never mind.

We love the club just as much as you Mackems.

 

Start your own club then, maybe call them Mackem FC. Out of interest is someone who is born in Bishop Auckland and supports Newcastle a "Geordie" ?

 

I’m starting to like this DH4 guy. He seems like a cool dude

 

Are they Geordies in Blaydon ....

 

Nope not according to my census!

 

In a word... Yes.

 

The ones I know think they are ...

... just wait until I break the news

 

It's already ours. Clues in the name.

 

What about all the Colliery villages of County Durham where a lot of Sunderland's fanbase are from? Are they Geordies or Mackems? Or in fact neither

 

My dad's a Geordie Sunderland fan and my brothers a mackem mag. It's all a bit Jeremy Kyle but we get along

 

I'd say neither but that presents us with an opportunity to make up a name for them now. Something like the prince bishops or durhamites maybe

 

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I'd argue these are Wearsiders, a sort of Sunderland extended area, same accent and people basically.

 

You've bisected the river wear on that map

 

Durham and Sunderland accents are nowhere near the same tbh.

 

Disagree, same accent but different lexicon. People South of the map have the elongated a in words like car park, North of it the short vowel ee and oo vowel in words like beetroot.

 

Cut around Washington and CLS due to Geordie invasion effect, this waters down the Wearside identity of these towns due to football being inextricably linked to identity.

 

Being a Sunderland born resident of Washington my entire life.

I disagree with this post

 

It doesn't mean there aren't good, genuine Sunderland supporters in those areas, it just means demographically there is significant non-Wearsider input to make the area more grey.