# north-south divide (regional)

*Ordinarily means:* a gap in wealth, opportunity or outlook between the northern and southern parts of a country or of the world

A collective self that divides into an in-group and an out-group along a line between its north and its south, each reading its walls as set in different places.

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [north](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-north.direction), [south](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-south.direction), [line](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-line.geometric), [difference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-difference.relation), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [division](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-division.process), [in-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside), [out-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside), [along](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-along.spatial), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [space](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-space.extent)

**Through:** A line on the land becomes a line in the self model; wealth and reach read as differing across it, and each pole reads the other as the reason.

**Novel properties:**
- a compass line made a group line
- each pole reading the other as the cause

## Examples
- The 1980 Brandt Report drew a line dividing the world's richer North from its poorer South. *(economics)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-north-south-divide.regional.json*  
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