As we say in France " if you want to see a country full of morons, just cross la Manche ( Channel) heading North !
Don't get English southerners confused with the rest of England.
Southerners have more in common with france than they do England.
i.e. An English man's home is his castle.
Southerners can't even pronounce 'castle', they stick an 'r' sound in to it for some inbred reason, therefore they're not really English.
South England is for all intents and purposes Northern france, neither inhabitants actually sound English.