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North-South DivideNorth-South Divide, CelticCeltic FringeCeltic FringeBoth terms describe the same movement towards the southeast of Great BritainGreat Britain: the North-South DivideNorth-South Divide and the CelticCeltic FringeCeltic Fringe. The North-South Divide is a political and economic division in EnglandEngland between the older industrialized north including most of the darker dots on our population density map and the richer services-oriented southeast. Just as with the Rust BeltRust Belt and the Sun BeltSun Belt in the US, such divisions tend to encourage population movement: people move to where the economic conditions are better. The Celtic Fringe is a term sometimes used negatively to describe the areas in southwest England, like CornwallCornwall, and WalesWales and ScotlandScotland, areas that are actually much larger than the word “fringe” indicates. But fringe refers not to geographical areas but to parts of Britain characterized by economic troubles and decreasing population. While there was considerable movement from north to south between the 70s and the 90s, some of the movement has been reversed since the turn of the millennium. People have started to move away from heavily urbanized areas, perhaps due to much higher property costs or new jobs in other parts of the country or simply the desire to escape the hectic life in crowded cities.