Scousers are born in Liverpool.

[dazza]

What about if you come from Speke,Aigburth,Anfield,Tuebrook,etc,for example? Are/were there local nicknames,etc,that we no longer hear? The only one I've heard of is "Mudmen",who come from Garston!

They must of had names for each other? We could always make some up!

I think identity has more to do with where your heart resides, rather than just simply a matter of where you were born. A lot of black Americans feel 'African' despite being born in DC, Atlanta or New York etc... Imigrants describe themselves [even after several generations] in a double-barrelled form: African-American, Irish-American, [oddly enough you don't hear of too many 'English-Americans'...the old enemy] French-Canadian, etc...

So I'm not surprised many would see themselves as Liverpudlian, [Liverpolitan?] or Scouse, if there is a family connection here.

[ChrisGeorge]

They must of had names for each other? We could always make some up!

I think identity has more to do with where your heart resides, rather than just simply a matter of where you were born. A lot of black Americans feel 'African' despite being born in DC, Atlanta or New York etc... Imigrants describe themselves [even after several generations] in a double-barrelled form: African-American, Irish-American, [oddly enough you don't hear of too many 'English-Americans'...the old enemy] French-Canadian, etc...

So I'm not surprised many would see themselves as Liverpudlian, [Liverpolitan?] or Scouse, if there is a family connection here.

Hi Daz

More correctly, the term "African American" is the current politically correct term used in the United States to designate people who until the Sixties were known as "blacks" or "negroes" or "coloreds" and then in the Sixties and Seventies "Afro-Americans." So it is not actually to do with immigrants but more used to designate black families that have mostly been here for generations, often since the time of slavery.

All the best

Chris