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The Myth and Reality of Brexit City: Sunderland and the 2016 Referendum

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Rushton, Peter (2017) The Myth and Reality of Brexit City: Sunderland and the 2016 Referendum. Working Paper. Centre for Applied Social Studies, University of Sunderland.

Item Type: Reports, briefing/ working papers (Working Paper)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the stereotyped media image of Sunderland as a key indication of the ‘Brexit’ vote in the 2016 Referendum. By contrast , local voting patterns suggests that the city was typical of Labour heartlands. It is argued that factors such as education and class may have been more important, factors that were reflected nationally as well as locally in the North East. More broadly, the crisis of English, white, identity in the former industrial heartlands is conceptually and historically explored to place Sunderland in its local context

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Depositing User: Peter Rushton

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Item ID: 7344
Identification Number: 978-1-906832-31-5
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/7344

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Date Deposited: 15 Nov 2017 14:31
Last Modified: 21 Nov 2023 07:00

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Author: Peter Rushton

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Faculty of Education and Society
Faculty of Education and Society > School of Social Sciences

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Social Sciences > Sociology

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