American Nervoso wrote:
-edit- by which I mean, how is it any different these days from Somerset, or Devon, or Dorset? Apart from being a historical Celtic nation. Heritage is great, but Cornwall is not fundamentally different to any of its nearest neighbours in the modern UK, and I can't see how running it any differently would be to anyone's benefit.
There's 20,000 Cornishmen that know the reason why.
Seriously:
It is massively different to the South West. It's got the language, the culture and that is very distinct from the rest of the UK. It's a Duchy which is like a practice Kingdom and then in 1497 there was the Prayer Book Rebellion. Many old maps show Cornwall as a seperate entity, and the Romans didn't fancy the fight to take it, so just sort of went, "Yeah, here'll do" when they reached the Tamar. It had its own Parlaiment which could overrule the King of England for a bit as well.