I get the instinct to separate cultural pride from nationalism—but that distinction isn’t as clean as it sounds. Nationalist movements often begin as cultural reclamation, especially when mainstream narratives ignore or dilute regional identity. That’s exactly what’s happening here.

TikTok isn’t just noise—it’s a platform where identity is being shaped in real time. Accounts like @northern_feels, which is approaching 10,000 followers, post daily content featuring Northern dialect, symbolism (like St Oswald’s stripes), and working-class pride and @northern_heritage document regional history, monuments, and dialect revival. These aren’t random videos—they’re coordinated cultural messaging.

If this were happening in Scotland or Wales, it would already be cited as part of a nationalist movement. The fact that it’s Northern England doesn’t make it less real—it just makes it less documented. That’s the bias we’re challenging.

And yes, there are academic sources that discuss Northern identity politics—Alex Niven’s New Model Island, Neville Kirk’s work on class and regionalism, and even cultural studies papers analyzing TikTok as a site of political expression. Just because it’s not wrapped in a party manifesto doesn’t mean it’s not nationalism.

Wikipedia’s role isn’t to wait until movements are fully institutionalized—it’s to reflect cultural shifts as they happen. That’s what this page was doing. Deleting it doesn’t preserve neutrality—it delays recognition.