[MR] New Principality

[Wayne Remes]

This problem with the idea of a Principality springs up every so often. I 
can tell you, having been orginally recruited in Attlium and then moved to 
the Storvik area in the early 80s and lived and played predominatly in the 
North throughout the 80s  yet travelled a lot into the south that there has 
always been a cultural differance. Now after nearly 10 years in the south I 
can still see it, except the middle and south are stronger politically than 
they were in the 80s. In my opionion the North is more of a large homogenous 
area than the middle and south, this because travel times are so much 
closer. Also the mentaility of living in a large urban environment versus 
smaller urban envirnments tends to create slightly diferant mindsets. These 
things effect the way people think about how the SCA should be played, and I 
think goes a long way toward building the differnces of opinion and feeling 
of belonging within the Kingdom as a whole. The Kingdom really is somewhat 
differant in the north than in the middle and south. The DC suburbs and 
Maryland really are more or less one big megalopolis. This, I feel, leads to 
the north wanting a sense of  it's own identity, since they really are a 
somewhat differant animal than the rest of the kingdom.

Axel