On Nov 12, 6:58*am, "Androcles"
wrote:

Wigan is well north of and west of the M25, almost in Ireland, therefore
second world.

A famous English author wrote of a journey to Wigan Pier... I don't
know if that would confirm your claim of the area being socialist, but
traditionally the entire UK is located in the "first world". Just as
Texas, New Jersey, and even the Appalachians are - or Newfoundland.

John Savard