Letter: South hits back

Sir: It must be a matter of regret for you that some of your readers are capable of, indeed proud of, blatant discrimination against people who happen to have been born in a different place from them.

Whether one is born north or south of a particular line in England is no more of a choice than whether one happens to have been born with a different skin colour or gender.

I suppose the best that can be said about your correspondents Derek Magrath and Tom Valentine (Letters, 27 December) is that they had the misfortune to have been raised in that most intolerant of cultures, Yorkshire, and therefore their ignorant bigotry stems from nurture not nature.

JOHN DUGGAN

London SW11