12 Northern Stereotypes Game Of Thrones Gets Completely Right

5. We'll Rally Round A Righteous Cause

See: The Jarrow March, the miners' strikes and accompanying protests, Justice for the 96 and as recently as this year, Newcastle Unites against the anti-Islamic group Pegida. If there's a cause that affects the greater good, Northerners will back it with gusto, whether it affects them personally or not. There's still a sense of community in the North, when it's all but dwindled elsewhere and, admittedly, it's not what it once was. But the adage of love thy neighbour is not totally lost up here, perhaps a sense of responsibility to help those less fortunate comes from being less fortunate (than the south) ourselves. In Westeros, where houses in the South either live as bannermen in fear of House Lannister, often secretly conspiring or simply keep themselves to themselves unless someone wrongs them - think House Martell - the Northerners *did* live in relative harmony. When Robb Stark discovers that his father has been executed at the hands of King Joffery, he declares war. The entire North (more or less, we'll not discuss the Freys) rallies around him, proclaiming him King of the North, until the inevitable discontent caused by his stupid mother sets in.